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FAR God about twelve years. wrote
TINS story only for pastime-neyer Thought
Oh the publication of it. 1t filled up even
lngs ana idle hours generally. Gong to
new ork on one occasion concluded for
curiosity to slip the manuscript into NV
trunk and submit it to publisher
Whitelaw Reid gave me an introduction
to the house of Osgood, Ticknor & Co.
Boston. They referred the manuscript 20
readers with the result that they under
took the publication of it on the usual
terms. They published it well, and it has
Deen good selling book ever since, to my
astonishment.
linen L wrote number of magazine
articles, and about 1874 / concluded I
would amuse myself writing q novelette,.
OF which the principal circumstances
should be the meeting ot the wise men in
the desert and the birth of Christ. The
episode OF the meeting in the desert was
always a point of interest to me- Who were
they? Whence did they come? How did
1t happen that they met for that singular
purposef All there is of it is a few little
verses Of the Gospel, but it was very inter-
estng to me. My purpose was to present
1t to the Harpers for the magazine, it
seemed so suitable for illustration. When
1t was finished l put away in my desk
very carefully prepared manuscript A
Conversations with distinguished gentle
man not long afterward set my mind going
again. ! had never studied the Scriptures.
had no opinions one way or another re-
specting God or heaven or hell NV con.
dition upon the subject and all involved
in it was profound Indifference. The con-
versation referred to made me ashamed of
myself, and l resolved to investigate as
well as l could and reach my own
conclusion. With that in view I thought
of imposing task on myself which would
compel me to the work. resolved to
continue the theme of the manuscript in
my drawer (which ended with the birth of
Christ, and is now the first book of Ben
Huro to the death of Christ, the cruel
fixion. | was engaged about five years on
this subject, reading and meditating.
came out firm believer in God, and with
out doubt in the divinity of Christ, and
with Ben Hur.'
upon the publication of Ben Hur,'
General Garfield, the president, an old
time friend. read 1t and sent for me. In
the interview, he said: Il want to send
you as minister to Turkey. The labor
will leave you plenty of time for writing,
and | want you to give me a book on Con-
stantinople.' He gave me my commits
sion. and in the lower left-hand corner, in
his own handwriting, were the words and
initials, Ben Hur. J. A. c. / never
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IAN fan az Arms-A Tale of the Tenth Com
nsaa II was my first work. With il
ar ~ aIhuse my young friends.
my 18th year began a book which
r US W DC known as The Fair God, Er,n,
cn coy earliest recollection Mexico was a
ey OF great interest to me. and The
t l OF the invasion of Cortez WAS mar.
..h,ouiariy agreeable. NY first reading IN
mat, tnat iine was Robertson. Southev's ..fba.
toy was pointer. also, and Prescott
hiurnished me bread, meat and wine
nau finished probably $50 nages
T h the Mexican war broke ont
amis was irresistible to me, GOT
ous urum and fife and flag, and raised a
company and went with it as second lien
tenant. At the expiration of NV term of
service came back to Indianapolis where
! resumed my study of the law. which 7
i iau before my enlistment mixed with INV
literary pastime If ever YOU get your
fingers ON The Fair God YOU Will see tn At
.ne beginning shows you the youthfnl-
ness OF the writer. 1t does not show the
maturity OF the last part. All which in.
1,uues the entry of Cortez and the .Noche
Irlste' was written off and on after nv
return from Mexico. was engaged in
Ia" ana politics and the writing Of THE
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GEN. LEW WALLACE.
uov the Author of "Ben Hur'
Writes His Books.
oa,NsTAKING IN EVERYTHING.
~.-.ut Lover Of Nature, He Finds
rs Best Inspirations Amid Rural
Surroundings.

m. veteran editor of the Journal at
r-srsville. Ind, James II. McNeeley,
...antIv said 10 me: 81 suppose I had a
h.rd in the frs. courtship that was ever
..,ried on by telegraph. was the operator
10 used to send Lew Waliace's messages
- s,e EIston. That was away back in
L. me- see: they were married in 1882"
seated on General Waliace's porch in
crauford.ville few days later mentioned
this circumstance.
..yes T" said the author of ben Hur, {"
aNcNee!ey is one of my ancient friends.
helieye he did send my messages. It
nav have been the first courtship by tele-
.rsnh. ~ he added with smile. al don't
NOV about that. But surely the telegraph
"a, yery young in those days"
Bv the way, General Wallace's father
r.s the member of congress who, only a
.hort time before that courtshlp began,
c.st the deciding vote in the committee on
commerce in favor of an appropriation to
A.velop Samuel +. B. Morse's magnetic
telegraph. Yes; and the people of his dis
trict we're 30 profoundly incensed by this
"foolish encouragement of a wild, i'm
nracticsl scheme" that they refused to re-
elect him.
Crawfordsville in June is a delight to the
,ouI. it is SO soothingly quiet, SO dsrkly
cool under the dense foliage of it's great,
clustering trees; so fresh. SO fragrant; and
EIston grove, in which General Wallace
lives and does his immortalizing, is as the
concentrated essence of the place The
house, which is not pretentious, is set deep
il forest of grand old beeches and naples
and evergreen varieties of trees. Under
these the walks and drives curve through
dark arbors and across bright, well trimmed
lswns, the whole making picture restful
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s Yer lett that country? They have no
literature for me to read, and since I had
good interpreters, l had no need to know
their tongue.''
When General Wallace has determined
70 write book the first thing he does is to
s. ane map OF the scene in which the
story Is 10 be laid. Nothing Is done hap
hazard, nothing left to guesswork. With
inilheasuraole pains he searches out the
precise location of every hill and vale,
stream and bridge, road and building.
everything that is TO play any part in the
story. A famous theologian has said that
the map prepared for the writing of ben
mur was the most complete and accurate
oiie ever made OF the scenes of the tale of
tne Chrlst. yet General Wallace had never
visited any OF those scenes. This tireless
attention to the minutest details accounts
ior the remarkable fact that, not withstand-
ing the vast number of critical readers the
DOCK has had, the only mistake that has
yet been discovered in it is that slight
aanacnronism which sets Vesuvius smoking
iour years before 1t was a volcano.
l asked.
NO, he said; sit is there to STAY"
~ suggestion of the amount of work
GENERAL Wallace has had to do in the gath
ering OF facts for the book on which he is
now engaged may be had by following him
20 MS study, rear room on the second
moor, and looking over the titles of a few
OF the most important books he has had
70 olgest as preliminary task. Some of
them are: The New Testament, Sinnett's
Esoteric Buddhism" Adds and Ar
noid's Catholic Dictionary, THE Flight
Into Egypt" Trevor's Ancient Egypt"
Edwn Arnold's THE Light of the
World" Albert F. Heard's 1.-The Russian
0nurch and Russian Dissent" "Arius,
the Llbyan" ian anonymous idyl OF the
primitive churchI; Man; fragments of
forgotten History" "Hippodrome of Con-
stantinopie and Its Still Existing Monu-
ments," by Edwin A. Grosvenor, profess
sor OF history in Robert College Constan-
tinopie, who was the companion of GEN
era! Wallace in many of his excursions
ana explorations in and about the city of
the sultan; Won Hammers History of
the Ottoman Empire" eighteen volumes
In French), Labberton's New Histori-
cal Atlas and General History" "Blbio-
theque Orientale" Q777); "Antar; A Be-
oouin Romance" Ga collection of prehis-
torlc Arab legends in four volumes); Rev.
Richard Burgess "Greece and the Levant"
1.-TWO volumes), plan of Constantinople,"
Les Isles des Princes" Whites ''Three
Years In Constantinople" (three vol
umes), Stanley Lane-Poole's Turkey
The Story Of the Nation" 1.-THE Mysteries
OF Magic" "a digest of Eliphas Levi, Ed
klns' Chinese Buddhism" Wherry's
commentary on the Koran" Lanes ''Se-
lections From the Kur-an." 1.-THE Bhag-
avad Gita, The Shah Nameh of the Per-
sian Poet, Firdansi'' (the great Persian
epic), Hutchinson "Faber's Mind of
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THE EARTH ON FIRE.
Volcanoes the Chimneys of the
Internal Furnaces.
THE FLAMING CONES OF ITALY.
Even Iceland Has Spouting Holes
Cfaters and Lava Streams In
the United States.

About eighty eruptions of Mount Etna
are known to have occurred PRIOR to the
one which is now attracting the attention
of the world. The first outbreak in his
toric times is said to have taken place in
the seventh century B. c. In February,
1859, the most terrific eruption of the
mountain occurred which has ever been
recorded. An earthquake, felt for long
distance, destroyed Catania and buried
Is, 900 people. The cathedral of the CITY
at the time was crowded with people cele-
brating the feast of st. Agatha The
cathedral was ruined and the worshipers
buried, together with bishops and forty
four Benedictine monks. One side of the
crater fell in. In 1887 part of the village
of Nicolosi was destroyed. At this time a
stream of lava ran for fifteen miles down
the mountain.
A terrible eruption occurred in 1869
which has been very fully described by
several writers, notably by Alfonso Borelli,
a professor of mathematics at the famed
city of Catania. During this eruption
Nicolosi, Belpasso and part of Catania
were destroyed. A assure nearly twelve
miles long, about six feet wide and of I'M
known depth appeared on the side of the
mountain and extended to within mile
of the top. A bright light issued from the
fissure. and six mouths along its line
emitted smoke, accompanied by below
ing sound which could be heard forty
miles away. Belpasso. a village of 5000
people, was destroyed by the outburst from
a new crater which opened about a mile
below the others and threw ont a food of
lava two miles wide. Stopped for time
by the city walls of Catania, the lava rose
gradually to a height of sixty feet, and
finally rushed over the walls and destroyed
part of the city. Altogether some fifteen
towns were destroyed by this eruption, the
lava thrown out covering an area of at
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American Manners and Engli SIN Critics

Am erlcan manners ana EnSI1 Sn Cflt1c0.
Gail Hamilton in North American Review.
So, then, Daisy Miller has taken lodg-
ings in ST. James Park?
Do black sheep stray into our commons?
If contemporary English authority is to be
trusted, black sheep lead, if they do not
constitute, the "smartest" ilocks on the
troubled Thames. "All that is needed to
insure an entrance into the highest society
in England is unlimited wealth. Morality
is unnecessary. An important addition
is made to the moral law, Thou shalt
not be found out" Vice is not con-
fined to the inmates of disorderly houses, -
but disorderly houses at the head and in
the heart of society tiaunt a handsome
gown as the price of womanhood, French
table for mans infamy. Let it be noticed
that Americans have not contributed to
these pictures. Lady Henry Somerset por-
trayed her pleasant American visit in
rosy hues. Her censor came by, seized
the brush and dabbed the portrait with
lampblack. Blackwood rose up in frenzy
and moppeJ out with his crossing broom
every feature of civilization All these
tints are laid upon the Lond N canvas by
English artists. In the royal academy of
design America has not competed. The
American device which disheartens our
away. Is it not possible that the por-
IentouS hueS OF the vision NAV be due to
4 distorting medium? If the observer
were suffocating up to the eyes in thi 8
hideousness it would be cause for immedi-
ate alarm; but as the air seems clear
around Picadiily and only murkv across
the ocean, is 1t not possible that the
murk is due to atmospheric refrac-
ton or planetary spheroidity? Lady
Henry goes further and dares to
say that ''the familiar footing
which exists between the American Young
man and woman before their betrotha, re-
suits in far happier homes after marriage
than does the strict rule of London So
ciety;" then indeed rises up whole den
of lions brushing the dew from their names
and growing as they brush: There are
no women so pure and good as the English
women and wives" Or Is this perhaps
only gallant? Shall We pardon the exclud-
ing ungraciousness OF the negative and
the hardly possible grammar. to the 10y
atty of this sentiment, though il does not
appear that Lady Henry anywhere at
tackled the purity and goodness of her
countrywomen. The sudden sensitiveness
of her critic is the sole founda-
ton of her suspicion. But growl
rises into mania; The horrible i'm
purity of the most fashionable Young
girls in the largest cities in the union is
well known and the deacon marriage
minus the pistol shots is the typical
American faenoge." This can only be
recognized as an acute type of emotional
insanity!
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saw him again. | sailed soon atterward
for Europe, and at Liverpool received by
cable the information that he had been
shot"
With what patience and hdenty ana
ability General Wallace has fulfilled the
literary part of his mission the public viii
soon be permitted to judge. The book on
Constantinopie is within few pages OF
completion. Ii is a story of romance, laid
for the most part about Constantinopie IN
the period of 1850, the catastrophe being
the assault and capture OF the city by
Mohammed. During his term OF service
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'uue' As II he intended 10 dispute any at
tempt at departure which the master
might make. sud ont of great beech tree
near at hand came dripping the fearful.
iat-away sounding 10000, oo-oo, oo-oo"
:. mourning dove, bewa;!ing the very
thought.
-. Zee this, Hear that" said General
"a'sce What better environment can
anybody wish?"
Aad this reminded him of very i'm
r'Haht duty he must perform. In a
s"Swoerrv box snCgiy tucked under the
So'aiee OF the porch. just above the front
s'o' WAS tiny nest in which an early
s''G OF American sparrows had been
Matched
must clean out that nest, :" said Gen.
@ Wallace, "snd make it ready for \
falF OF wee passenger birds that come
very year a. about this time and set up
housekeeping there
'Ais, marx you, Is the man who at
D'0ouy Monocacy led handful of raw re-
-'S against Jubal Early's overwhelming
't--ied them to inevitable defeat, and
'"'eu the city Of Washington.
peiofe We go into his workshop to pry
."'o his literary methods. let us SIT on the
~ ~. poreh and question General Wallace
80 80 MS literary career, for. although lie
LAS gallant soldier and a great general,
t r's zen has become a much more potent
s~TAenee Than his sword ever was.
- IS clf'lcult ~ say when | first began
ne, he answers, IL was Wild boy
- - refused IN great part sil opportuni-
'oF regular education. But along
,h ia That was always reader OF every
..5S' Ny father was lover OF books
x. ~ nad fine library, which, OF course,
a"ayS open 70 me. In my truencles
sssS IN the habit OF taking gun. dog,
M -rshlhg rod an i book, and SO | varied
So. 91'huSements. When about IL years of
g. wrote novel tabout 800 pages of
N'ss'y written manuscript entitled The
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A story Of the Cholera at Baku.

Still funnier is the story lately current
in Baku concerning the Archemankrite
of that place. The habitual practice there
of leaving the carcasses of animals to rot
in the streets without being removed is
mentioned above. Some highly disre-
spectful person saw fit to deposit during
the small hours, right in front of the
Archemandrites residence the dead
body of mule. To make
matters worse, it was clear that the an
imal had been dead for some time and Its
condition was correspondingly offensive.
Official dignity was outraged and the en-
tire staff of the Archemandrite's servants
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No Gentleman.
Chicago Tribune.

The man down there at that table"
said the waiter, glaring at SOMEBODY at the
other end of the room, is no gentleman.
That's all | have got to say
What's the matter with him." asked
the cashier.
He's breaking them lemonade straws
so We can't use 'em again, doggone him."
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cinders carries desolation and death
to the country below. Some of the
matter thrown out lodges around the
mouth of the crater. raising it still higher !;
or the struggling mass unable to lift the
accumulated material from the chimney,
or to force hole through the floor of the
crater. may tear off a part of the rim of
the crater or rend a tissure from top to
bottom.
Volcanoes are pretty widely distributed
over the face of the earth, but i'll general it
may be said that they lie along mountain
ranges bordering ON the ocean and in the
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to the senses and inspiring to the soul.
Every now and then somebody who does
not know or cannot appreciate the grand
eur of this place asks General Wallace
why he does not remove to one of the
great cities, where he can have Literary
environment" He was speaking of this
when he interrupted himself to call my
attention to saucy looking robin red
breast that had hoped down to strategic
point at the junction of two walks and
was standing in an erect, military atti-
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there General Wallace had abundant OBJ
'l1e, 20 study the locality and lay IN
The outline OF the work on when nc Is
still engaged. hind - -. - ba
saws: permitted me TO go sngLe ~nn,TN
TO. and under the most la'oi"oie e'i O"'A'
:Did you learn the Language OF turkey
| ask. .urh, sbnu}s I
,.asts precious time in learning language
which never could be oi any use 10 Inc Al
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They make one feel though life was worth
living Take one OF Carriers Little Liver Pills
after eating 1t Will relieve dyspepsia, aid di-
gestion, give tone and ylgor 20 the system.
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Ask Your Grocer

For Crescent Creamery butter in two
pound prints. They cut SO nice for the
table
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-07-14
ECHOES or. LONDON TOWN.

AN exhibition called the magic
Maze of Mirrors has sprung up in Lon
don. AS the visitor enters the door he
sees crowd reckoning him from hum
drcd different angles an effect pro-
duced by one stuffed image.
A TRAINED terrier, with a light cord
attached to his neck, runs through I'M
foreground conduits, from one man-hole
to another, in London streets. Thus
electric wires are safely and hurriedly
drawn from station to station.
THE miscellaneous concert halls, town
halls, institutes, schoolrooms, etc, that
can be tabulated reach 13l in London
and the various suburbs. with an esti-
mated value of 81, l35, 900 and seating
capacity of 1T 900 persons nightly.
THE streets of London are cleaned be-.
tween eight in the evening and eight in
the morning. Many Of the carriage
ways are washed daily by means of a
hose, and the courts and alleys inhab-
tied by the poorer classes are cleaned
once day.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The French army lost sixteen killed
and seventeen wounded in battle with
Tonquinese pirates.
HENRY M. STANLEY was defeated in
his race for seat in the British parlia-
ment.
In Germany five recruits who were
on their way to Munster to report for
duty were drowned while crossing the
river Weirre.
FIRE destroyed five vaults of wine
vintage at Bordeaux. France, causing a
loss of 100000 francs.
A BICYCLE race from Paris to Nantes
and return, a distance of 622 miles, was
won by Allard in IS hours % minutes.
The firm of Isaac Cooke & Sons,
prominent cotton brokers at Liverpool,
failed for S75O,OOO.
In the Derry borough Justin McCar-
thy, the leader of the anti Parnellites,
was defeated for parliament by small
majority.
On the 9th fire that was raging in
ST. Johns, N. s., had destroyed over
500 buildings, including all the princi-
pal structures in the city, and over
5000 persons We're homeless.
DuR1Na. a fight between a force of
Gillian cavalry and a large number of
armed bandits thirty-one of the latter
were killed and as many more wounded.