BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Fable and Song in Italy is an in
teresting book by Miss 12. M. Clerke,
dealing .with the development of Ital
ian romahtic literature.
An Ode to Girlhood, and Other Poems,
by Alice Archer Sewall, contains many
delicate lyrics, revealing a warm, true
and sympathetic nature in the writer.
A life of Andrew Carnegie is tc be
written by H. Morrison, the chief li
brarian of the Edinburgh public li
brary, one of the many established by
Mr. Carnegie.
Lizzie P. Evans-Hansell has pub
lished a humorous series of letters
called Aunt Nabby: Her Rambles, Her
Adventures, and Her Notions — pre
sumably of the Samantha Allen type.
Of the 13,000 visitors to the Shakes
peare Memorial building at Stratford
on-Avon, last year, one-fourth were
Americans. Vet the American window
in Trinity church, Shakespeare’s burial
place, remains unfinished.
Retrospects and Prospects is a post
humous volume of essays by Sidney
, Lanier, the “artist who hesitated be
tween two arts.” His passion for mu
sic was as intense as his passion for
poetry.
Besides the illustrations for the book
of old English ballads. The Golden Van
ity and the Green Bed, Miss Pamela
^ Coleman Smith has prepared a dozen
fine water colors for the ballad of Wid
dicombe Fair, limited to 500 copies.
A Frenchman has translated Camille
into the Mandarin dialect, calling it The
Lady with the Tea Flowers: A Study
of Parisian Manners. It has had such
great success that a leading native pa
per in Shanghai has ottered a large sum
for the serial rights.
A young Canadian author, Mrs. Jo
anna E. Wood, is spoken of as the Miss
Wilkins of rural Ontario life, and as
doing for the banner province what
Miss Wilkins has done for New Eng
land. Two of her recently-published
books are The Untempered WTind and
Judith Moore, and a third has jus*t been
completed as a magazine serial, A
Daughter of Witches, which shows the
writer to be possessed of extraordinary
Jtalent.
War Fond from Soap.
A firm of English soapmakers which
gives a halfpenny to the Transvaal
war fund for every cake of soap sold,
has already sent in £1,000 to the
fund.
Central America Pyramid Builders.
Barring the Egyptians, the ancient
Mayas of Yucatan seem to^have been
1 he greatest pyramid builders the world
ever saw.
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Persona! Mention.
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Pob Howard is ever the divide
on a prospecting trip.
i Belcev and Jones, of 2 above on
Glenn gulch, left town for thegulch
I Thursday l ist.
Rev. Koo c: arrived on the str.
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Susie. Mr. Koonce will re-open
the Prespyterian chapel for service.
judge Harlan left for Kagle on
the Susie Saturday last. The judge
h is maae (^uite a slay in Rampart
and thi.iks v\ ell of the town.
J. Ha liday, a res dent of the
camp in ’98, leturned on the Susie.
Haiiiday says that Kmn^art is the
only camp worthy of a miners atten
tion on the American Yukon.
Hems Around Town.
The’L>. K. Campbell vyili be the
last boat that will return from ab
ove this season. The boa's that
are now parsing up-iiver will wi. -
ter in Dawson.
It is stated unofficia l}’, that with
the completion of the teiegraph line
to Rampait next spring, the work,
so far as tue soldiers a.ie concerned
will cease. Buis will be called for
and private parties will complete
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the line into Eagle. It is also ru
mored that H. K. Hendricks lias
gone to St. Michael to put in a bid
for the work.
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A1 Mayo gave an “opening” last
Thursday night at his new place at
the upper end of town. All the
bo5's attended and the fuu kept up
until an early hour Friday morning.
Cap announces that he int-nJs to
conduct a strictly first-class place,
and judging from his wide circle of
f iends will do h s sh re of he
business cf the town in his liae.
LEGAL NOTICE.
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NOTICE OF MARSHAI/S SALK.
United States oi America,
Third Division
District of Alaska.
Public notice is hereby given, that by virtue
cf a -writ of Fieri Facias[or execution], dated
August 8, 1^01, issued out of the Distrtct Court,
of the United States for the Third Divide;;,
District of Alaska, on a judgment rendered in
said Court, on the seventh day of November,
A. I). 1900, in f ivor of Vlaska Commercial Com
pany and again->t Thomas D. Drew, i have, on
this fourteenth day of August, A. D. 1901, levied
upon the following described real estate, situat
ed iu the District of Alaska, Third Division, to
wit: All that certain property iu the Territory
I of Alaska, kno wn and designated as the Pioneer
Coal Mine, and more particularly described a*
I follows: First, Coal Mining Location covering
one iiundred and sixty acres, recorded by
Thomas D. Drew July 12, 1897; and Second, eoai
| Milling Location recorded by j. P. Bauscaren
| January j^rd., 18 8, and transl'cired to Thomas
I D Drew in tne mouth of juu, i8f8: the lat*cr
; premises adjoining the first de icribed and bo; ii
: bciiij_ ioca.ed upon the Yukon River, about thir
j ty miles up said river from Rampart City, oppo.:
| ite Mike Hess Creek, record of all which io in
the office of the Recorder at Rampart Cij\*,
and that I will, accordingly, oifer said real es
tate for sale, at public vendue to the highest and
best bidder, for cash, on tne thirtietn day of
September, A. D. 1901, at ten o’clock A. Moa
the front steps of the court-house at Eagle v-Ry
Alaska.
Dated, Eagle City, Alaska, August 12,1901.
Geo.G. Perry l . S. Marshal
Third Division, District of Alaska.
By E. E- Keyi^oldsou. Deputy.
George K. French,
Plaintiffs Attorney.
Notice To Creditors.
NCTICE ISHEKEbY GIVEN by the nnder
signed, Administrator of the estate of Orin D.
Merryman, deceased, to the creditors of, and
all persons having claims against said estate
to present them, with proper vouchers, within
six (6] months after the dat.e of the first publica
tion of this notice, to said administrator, at his
residence at the Heath Hotel, in the town of
Eagle, District of Alaska.
john C. Cavender,
Vr E* Ilevington, administrator of the estate
Attorney for of Orin D. Merry man,
administrator. deceased.
Date of first publication. August 29, 1901.
Testimony in 24 case all in.
The taking of testimony in the
24 1. m. jr. case before Referee E. J.
Knapp, was concluded Saturday.
Mr. Knapp has covered a great
many miles with bis pen poiut in
transcribing the testimony and has
giveu complete sat s a tion to all
parties interested,