Excerpt from The Chautauquan, Vol. 25: April, 1897, to September, 1897 Miners' Strike, The Minister to Spain, Our New Minister to Turkey, Our New Mississippi Basin, Situation in the Mothers, National Congress of North Pole, F resh Quests for the Oliphant, Mrs. Margaret 0 Oliver Optic William Taylor Adams Paris Disaster, The Postal Congress, The Universal Presbyterian General Assembly, The Railroad Decision, The trans-missouri Ruiz Case. Commissioner's Report on the Shelby, General Joseph Orville. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.