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The new type that the Century com- immigration" and done "incalculable in
pany has been using has excitea much jury to the state.' To get at the bot
comment among people who read and toss of the matter involves a discussion
make books. Theodore L. De Vinne in as fo what induces settlers to settle,
the March Century has the following to what people generally do with their
aay of the quotation marks the company ballads and myths, and what the Cali
has adopted. "The so called new quo- fornian meant who recently declared
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tation marks are not at all new. Thay
may be noticed, in almost the same
form as they now appear in this maga
zine, in the books of those excellent
printers, the Didots of Paris, at the
close of the last century, and they have
ever since been used by all French
printers. When British publishers de
cided to use quotation-marks their type
founders had no characters for the pur
pose, and did not make them. Whether
that the demise of Bret ifarte wouH be
an event of the highest possible advant
age to California.' The western states
are. children of a large growth. They
have wits, enterprise, ingenuity and
some mosey. They hive not age, and
nothing but age will ripen knowledge
into culture. Hence there ia no use
denying that yesterday we were pioneers
and started a folk lore that will con
front the children of yesterday when
of the British printer to pay for a
Bew character, or to the prevalent dis
like of everything French, cannot be
decided; all we know is that they de
cided to imitate them with the unfit
characters in stock. These characters
were two inverted commas and two
conjoined apostrophes characteiB
sever intended, and not at all fitted, for
the purpose. Imperfect as they were,
habit has kept them in use for about, a
ceutury. There are serious mechanical
objections to these makeshift devices.
The apostrophes and commas are not
mates; the apostrophes at the end of the
quotation are thinner and closer to-
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this refusal was due to the unwilling- they claim a savant pedigree. "Tom
GrogBu,by F. Hopkiuson Smith, is
concluded in this number. It is a story
of village politics and street contracts
and the dominant Irish pull, the same
thing whether in New York city or in
a village microcosm. Mr. Smith's style
is familiar to everyone. Anything he
writes and illustrates is sure of readers.
In "Colonel Carter of Cartersville" he is
the American Du Maurier of good fel
lowship and camaraderie. "Colonel Car
ter, whose hand, heart and house were
never shut to his friends, has done
much in the way of introducing
the north to the south. A sympathetic
medium k all they need ana with F. -Hopkinson
Smith and railroads termi
nating in southern export depots the
two parts of the country seem to be on
the point of acquiring it. "Tom
Grogan," the contractor is a woman who
takes her husband's name when he dies
and figures and hauls and builds as he
did. Her work is honest and "the
union conspires to drive her out of com
petition with it. When various methods,
such as proposing-marriage and intimi
dation fail, emissaries of "the union" set
fire to her barn, and finally beat "Tom
Grogan herself on the head till they
suppose her dead. It is hard to beat
the sense out of an IriBh head and Tom
rises up, confronts her eneoiies and se
cures the contract they want. The best
of men are not fair to a woman in the
same business. Education has miti
gated man's cruelty but not destroyed
it. When the laboring classes en
counter a femininn nnnnnonf ohronrrlai-
their adoption by American and Kng- and abler than they are the men com-
ish printers is only a questiot of time." bine against her and no weapon is too
primitive, no means too cowardly to use
The March Century contains an un- against her. A writer's sympathies
usual number of plums. "OntheTrack most be broad and quisk acd in the
of the Arkansas Traveler," is an inquiry ,, of Mr. Smith they are enough so to
into the origin of that song and dance have overcome his blind masculinity,
and dialogue, with the result that schol- Xom Groean" is an Irish Joan of Arc
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gether than the commas at its begin
ning; the round bodies of these marks
are not in line, low at the beginning
and high at the end, putting them
askew ia an unsightly manner. They
are the only characters ia ordinary use
that are thrust up at the top of the line.
It follows that they leave an ungainly
blotch of white below, and so produce an
appearance of uneven and unworkman
like spacing. For this reason, if for no
other, the form .should be altered. The
German method of marking quotations
with special characters is but a trifle
more uncouth, viz: u " The simplicity
of the French quotes have led to their
general adoption in Spain and Italy;
- In each of the other lines we will
offer larger assortments this season than
ever before. To all who.coms we prom
ise to show the most complete stock of
dress fabrics to be found in Nebraska.
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ars reach who try to discover the author
of the Homeric tales. "Sometime about
the year 1950 the American musical
myth, known as "The Arkansas Trav-
as pure, as heroic, as faithful as she.
The other stories are of slight import
ance. The sketch of John Randolph of
Roanoke and of the Elder Dumas are
Is seldom made nowadays
in the book line. But a
tremendous exception to
the general rule, and the
prevailing sensation is
eler came into vogue among fiddlers, interesting and in the best biographical
iiMqtuc& reet nine, wim a ubck- style.
woods story talked to it while played,
that caught the ear at the side shows Speaking of optimism and its medi
and circuses and sounded over the cfnal effect on all who must live or corn
trodden turf of fair grounds. Bands mit suicide La Revue of Paris prints for
and foreign-bred musicians were above the first time a statement from "George
noticing it, but the people loved it and Sands when she was seventy-one years
kept time to it." I know of no other old concerning her views of novel writ
reel and dialogue with the music and ing and her views of life in general.
Politicians are startled by
it; statesman are provoked
to controversy; every body
reads it Sold only by
subscription Drop a card
to the general agent.
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words on the same body. It is more
American than "Yankee Doodle." It
smells of western soil as moist earth
just turned by the spade. "When we
seek tn trace.back the legend to its own
country a surprise is in store for us. To
tear j from certain authorities in Kansas
that the. myth is discountenanced there
by a strong state feeling argues ill for
ear enterprise; and it throws an unex
pected seriousness over the situation to
be told that the dialogue at the cabin is
"a misrepresentation and a slur," and
that the hero.of tho story has "checked
"Though she was looking forward to
death at the time, it expresses only the
most cheerful sentiments, for there was
a stubbornness about her optimism as
about her idealism. She has been
charged with idealizing her personages.
Well, she meant them to be as (hey are,
and which is not the same thing she
saw them so, acd often met people like
them in the world. But if she had only
met one such noble personage, that same
would have been real, and she would be
within her rights in depicting him. She
is aware the present temper of the wor'd
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