Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-18
ADMIRAL.
Illness Of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps--
Sketch Of the Greatest Preacher
in america.
A Protest Against she Army Stragglers
Of Cysloramic aud Panoramic
Propensities.
The Popular Gazette Correspondent aNe'
frying "trip to the city OF Culture
aud Beans,

Rosros. MASS, April l4.--A newspaper |
man IA a newspaper man, whether you
meet him In Canton or KamskGtka. he
is always 90 the lookout for something
pey--somelhing that will make a good
newspaper story, and Il he be a Rews-
patherer worthy the name, be Invariably
ands what be Is looking for Coming
over on the Sound boat last nigAt ran
across an acquaintance Of mine, whom
had not met since he and l, In hired dress
suits, sat for an hour or more, IA the cold
reoeouun room In the vatican, waiting
Tor bis holiness, Pope Leo, To come out
that VIC might pny our homage OF respect
TO him-aud write him up ion our news
paper Ny friend was then w Rome, and
was irving his HAND for the tirst time at
literary work, the Boston Advertiser hav-
ing kindly consented 20 print his letters
II foupd suita9le. was rather
Young aud more Or less green--mostly
green then myself, aud Gs neither OF us
had had much experience we agreed 10
pool oar is-nes and write our letters to-
pether. Two heads proved 80 much
better than one that we st0yed In Europe
some munths longer than We had in
tended Ia order 10 see more lions and get
more matcrial Well, my friend Is still
on the hunt for news, and so am l. He
happgnA 10 1--we when NJ home-which
isn't eften--,.t Andover Mass, where re-
sides that famous writer OF whom you
have OF oouIfe all heard-EiLabeth Stu
art Phelps He remarked that Miss
Phelps Was very 81, and as GAZETTE
readers will OF course be pained
10 hear that, asked him TO
tell ne something about her. He
said: Miss Phelps is slight and exceed
ingly graceful IN figure. Her face Is very
beautiful, refined and somewhat sad. She
possesses an indesCrbabie charm OF per
son and manner, arising from the extreme
unworldlncss ana loyeliness Of her
nature. TO the poor people OF An over
she IS Known as a helpful and unSelhsh
friend, deyUtng her life and strength to
them. Ia the world OF literature her
place Is thus defined by the New York
Independents 'Jf she is not the best
living American writer OF short stories, it
would be dlncult 20 Aud the nams 10
properly set above hersn A'doyer, her
home la picturesque village, twenty
miles from Boston. Here She
has lived since her fourth year, and her
mother and grandfather lived before her.
There Is story Of her girlhood years in
eXpressiby sad, and yet II Is u story
which the teTrOTs of war made common
both North and South. The sorrow Of
those wears has perhaps left its impress
upon both her mind and chracter. Her
lover went 10 wnr--and never came back.
Nerving herself TO assume her share OF
the worlds duties, Miss Phelps began to
devote herself to mission work in fac
tory settlement, and to write in her
own strong and realistic manner. In
the spring Of 1863, she sent war story
entitled GA sacrifice consumed" to Har-
per's Magazine, and later wrote for the
Atlantic Monthly the story of the falling
of Pemberton's mills at Lawrence, which
excited profound interest and won wide
literary recognition. Her FIRST story was
printed Ia the Youths Companion in 1857,
when she was thirteen. At twenty the
plan of the "Gates Aiar" began to form
itself IN her mind, Although the first,
this Is the best known OF her books In
this volume, rs well as In the later one,
"ljeyond the Gates,n by story and sug-
gestion she recalls that very old tradition
which makes the angel come at dawn In
the cheerful morning to guide the souls OF
the good to paradise. Miss Phelps con-
ceives such types OF character and feeling
as lie within the view OF only the pun
and exalted soul, and the qualities of a
genuine artist give her work It's exquisite
form. The evils Of factory life, depicted
in "a Silent Partner,r she learned by
personal work among factory girls. On
the Gloucester shore, whore she has
planted her summer home, she saw how
cruel a weight intemperance added to the
hard lot OF the fshermen's families, aud
through her efforts reform club has fol
years been sustained, She made herself
81 - - a
her house with their hopes and despair
their temptations and troubles. Mis-,
Phelps now writes but seldom, Ill healtl
has Of late years prevented her from
doing much, and she Is now prostratet
by what may, unfortunately, prove hel
last Illness.
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LIEUT.. GREEDY AND MUGwUNlP BowIEs
In the corridor OF the Parker house
saw Lieut.. Greedy, OF Arctic fame, look
ing csreworn and ILL., He was attended
by his faithful wife, who has devotedly
nursed her husband ever since his return
but practically TO little purpose for he Is
now broken down In health, the victim OF
a serious spinal trouble, and VI his own
ambition and devotion 20 duty. A bill q.
now before congress placing him on the
retired list with the rank OF colonel, and
IL should be passed without delay. The
Scribncrs are doing well with Greely's
book, am told, II already having reached
sale OF ten thousand copies and sec.
ond edition. IN the great dining.ruom OF
the same hotel sat Mr.. Frank Bowles,
the recently appointed secretary OF
Harvard college. Bowlcs IL a son OF thai
Bowles who made the Springfield Repub,
lican, the only daily papee published In q
small town that ever acquired metro.
politNn importance. Young Buwles "a not
exactly a chip Of The old block, although
he had every advantage that his father
lacked, beng sent 10 Columbia college,
and aflorward made an associate editor
OF the Boston Advertiser through the IN.
iiuence OF his father, The Advertiser has
been for years ON the ragged financial
edge, although II is taken by all the old
bluo-hlooded families on Beacon street.
That IL the trouble. II Is too in.
formally blue-blooded IL Is owned
by the great Adams family and
by tho Ames race OF erstocrats, aud Is
one OF those pecksniillan journals that
can never bend without breaking their
Journalistic backs Under young Bowles