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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-12

ley was to be charged with the writing Of
the authorized biography of MI Glad
stone; and whoever repeats the rumOr
makes haste TO add that he hopes il may
be true, for Mr. Morley is just the man for
the task. l confess am not so sure Of
this however. Mr.. Morley could anaivze
and interpret Mr. Gladstone's life as per-
maps no one else could. He could give an
orderly, intelligent and interesting nara
tive OF Mr. Gladstones career. But is he
sufficiently self-suppressive and clerical in
temperan ent to prepare modern "docu-
mentary' biography, where Interpretation
is employed the least possible, and the
story is left in the main to tell itself in
letters and speeches and photographs
memoranda? The authoritative biography
OF Gladstone ought to be, and will have to
be, OF this sort; but it is not biography Of
this sort that Mr.. Morley has hitherto
written. His books on Burke and Voltaire
are, strictly speaking, not biographies at
all, but critical studies. His books on Did
erot and Rousseau are biographies, and
much the best we have on their respec-
tive subjects in English. But they are rot
IN the least documentary; in them, Mr..
Morley is free to tell his story in his own
words and In his own way. The same Is
true, in the main, of his life of Richard
Golden. And the narrative, in all of these
biographies, while it is clear and orderly
and of real intelligence, would never be
called lively; no one would read far in
any OF them merely as pastime. still
some sort of book on Mr.. Gladstone's ca
reer by MI Morley would have great
value.
Mrs. Ruth McEnery Stuart, the founder
ana director of that rare rural settlement
Slmpkinsville," is going soon to Denver
where she will spend most, if not ali, OF Inc
summer Mrs Stuart has more comfort
IN life now that she once had. Confront
cd Unexpectedly with the necessity Oh
earning her own living and on the Strength
OF having had three stories accepted by
the Harpers, she came to New York about
eight years ago from New Orleans and IN
dertook to support herself and her son py
Wfltlng. In ordinary hack work she haq
no FACILITY; she could write only slowly ana
with the utmost care. Consequently ner
urst years here were full of di1hculty 10Y
herolcaIly adherins to her course however
she has finally made her way and now
Tor an author, is enviably prosperous. Her
stores are accepted for ma gazine puDlicd-
uon almost before they are written hei
DOCKS sell well, and she is in constant de-
mand at good price as a parlor and SEMI
public reader She reads from her own
writings; and their humor and charm %
greatly heightened by her rendering oL
them. She is as good an entertainer, il
the Interpretation of theirs, although sac
James Whitcomb Riley of Mark Twain IL
the Interpretation of their, although sno
mas none Of their sage skill, and proeeeuS
most informally, not to say ingenuousg'
g. c. Martin
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-12

1t seems to be rather especially in the
spring that the prize story contest bursts
into bloom. There are several Just now in
progress, under the auspices of important
periodicals. 1t has fallen to my lot, num-
Der of times, to assist in the conduct of
such contests, and they present to the man
on the inside some rather curious ana in
teresting facts. | never knew of one that
yielded directly enough to pay for the la
Dor and expense of conducting it, If out OF
thousand of two submissions an editor
secures dozen stories really available he
gets, l should say, the very maximum of
direct return. For the five or six of this
dozen to which are allotted the prizes, he
pays anywhere from two to 10 times the
ordinary price of acceptable short stories
by unknown authors, and he paws no less
than the ordinary price for the rest of the
Dozen Add TO this the cost of advertising
the contest the cost of receiving filing
reading, and returning thousand or two
manuscripts, and the cost of conducting
the correspondence that, in spite of all pre-
cautions, such a contest bcgets-and his
prize stories before he has done with them
become about the most sumptuous ltera-
ture that the editor puts out. Under suck
conditions, Mr.. Kipling, In all his glory of
% cents word. comes but little higher
than the faIneless girl from WalIa WaNa.
Ana yet the popular impression is that edi-
tors originate prize-story contests in order
10 get a store of ''Wbacking" good stories
very cheap; and the suspicion of crooked
ness ana duplicity that has generated in
the hearts of the contestants bv the zine
the contest closes would. if gathered mo
one stream of energy operate a fleet of
fIrSt-Class battieshiDs
The prize story is apt to be no more of
prize in point of quality than an point of
cheapness. In such prize story contests
as l myself have had a hand in. it was
surprising how few perfectly nliterate ana
crazy manuscripts came in. Most of them
were written with fair propriety of express
sion, and were in no respect ludicrous
You wondered, as you went through them
that so many noVices should nave been
abe to do so well. Yet the very hest
among them was only good; it was never
great; and l don't remember ever 10 ave
read, anywhere, a prize story that struck
me as having positive distinction.
But the editors must find their profit in
il somewhere people say, and they are
apt, in saying IL, TO give a toss of the nose.
as if they had in their nostrils the scent
OF some very nefarous business. The eGi-
tors profit is simply this: Some adver-
tisement for his publication (more or less
according to the nature of the publication
and the character of the contest: but. in
most instances, not much), aud an addi-
ton of few new people to the never too
large company Of those who occasionally
write an available thing and are in the
habit of submitting what they write TO
one editor rather than TO another This in
a word, is the whole of the prize story
contest mystery; these are the real feat
ures and the full dimensions of the negro
in that particular wood pie.
The publication of the Biographical"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-12
THE LITERARY OUTLOOK.
WILL THE WAR SUPPRESS THE
WAR STORYs

The Prize story Contest and How Ii
Is COndscted-Mrs. Ruth McEnery
Stuarts Early Struga,Ie-CaPI
Schurz' Retirement From Harpers'
WeekIy-JOhn Morley as "a Biogrn-
pher-VariOus Notes on Writers
and Books.
New York, June 11.-One of the editors
of a weli-known magazine said the other
day that the war would not prove an I'M
midgated evil. for it must stop, sooner or
later, the rage for war stories. That re-
suit has not been accomplished yet. The
writer's who have war stories to offer, Of
fer them before anything else; and pub
fishers who have war stories to adver-
tise place them in the forefront of their
announcements. 1t Is doubtful, though,
whether war stories or any others are
just now getting much read. I know i,
is the feeling of the trade that ex-
cept extras" people are reading nothing;
and when you go to publishers seeking
news of their coming ventures, they tell
you that they are going very slow anu
that the future is very uncertain. So, if
there is any "inglorious Milton seeking
loan of his friends. In order to come up
to New York with the manuscript of a
second Paradise Lost" hen lose moth
ing by suspending his endeavors until
fan, or at least until a few more Span
iards have been killed. I doubt if even
the East Side Hebrew tailor who writes
so profoundly and subimely in his ances-
trai tongue that the best Harvard trans.
lator cannot do him full justice, is just
now doing a great business; that is, in the
literary way
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-12

edition of Thackeray's works, now in
progress, provoked much discussion and
card-writing to the newspapers on va
rious points in Thackeray's literary his
tory. One correspondent has brought out
the fact that the largest Jump sum
ever received by Thackeray for his work
was f1,000 $4,000 for the first rights of
Henry Esmond." OF course to one who
has never published a novel and has had
secret designs of doing so some time, this
seems rather a handsome sum. But for
Thackeray and for "Esmond" it is, in
TRUTH surprisingly small; for the day of
large rewards 10 popular authors had
already dawned. Scott had enjoyed inn
mense returns from his literary work;
Byron had found even poetry paying well,
and Macauley had found history as profit
able as a bank When the Century Com
pany, year or two ago paid Mrs. Hum
phrey Ward $4,000 for the serial rights of
"Sr George Tressady,' the fact was
much commented on as almost beyond
precedent. But thirty-fve years ago the
COrnhill Magazine paid George Eliot $751;
600 for the serial rights Of "Romola."
George Eliot had good prices for all of
her work. For her first piece of fiction.
the short story of Amos Barton she re-
ceved about $500 from BlaclSwood's Mag
azine, and when this and two other short
stories were collected into the book called
Ol6IlCdl OheJCNGSt she received ABOUT
5000 for the first edition and about $1,000
for the second, with retention of the
copyright. For her first novel, Adam
Bede," Blackwood paid her 5000 for the
copyright for four years, but the book did
so well that he afterwards voluntarily
added another $1,000 For mill on the
Floss" she got $4,000 for the first 4C0O
copies and a proportOnate sum on subse-
qUent copies besides 81 $50 from the Har-
for a American edition
Holt BlackwoOd paid her So 00G. and the
HarperS paid her for the American edi-
ton of "Middlemarch" $G,O30 What the
English edition of 'Middlemarch" Weld
ed her ! do not know. nor do l know
any thing of her receipts from Daniel
Deronda," but it must be that in these
she had her largest profits, for they sold
beyond any other of her works. If she had
followed "Derouda' with another novel.
which she did not do her profits would
probably have suffered a decline for Der
onda,' despite its greatness, was not a
little discourasinS 20 her admirers and
publishers, in their ready caution, would
nave been apt to approach her next work
little gingerly.
Stephen Crane seems 10 be able to hold
his favor with the English critics. Ii was
their hearty admiration of The Red
Badge Of Courage that first set him on
ms ieet. Iney were moi less aIproyiue
Of his novelette,, The Third Violet ana
his collection of short stories of war ana
soldiers, and now they are cordial again in
their reception Of his latest book. .sTha
open Boat and Other Tales Of Adventura >,
There is no doubt that 20 some peop,e tbfs
heartiness toward Mr.. Crane is a good deal
OF a mystery. but the secret Of il. / think
becomes plan in the sentences with which
lhe Acdocmy concludes its review Of The
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-12

A fact more or less remarked in news
paper and literary circles is the disap-
pearance of the name of Carl Schurz from
the editorial columns of Harpers Week
ly the moment war with Spain became
a declared fact. AS, for some weeks
previous, Mr. Schurz had been writing in
the Weekly on the subject of Cuba and
never in tone friendly TO war, and as
the conductors of the Weekly the instant
war was assured, dispatched to the field
a large and distinguished corps of CORE
spondents and artists, and began to adver-
tise their journal as a great pictorial his
tory of the conflict the inevitable infer
ence from MIR. Sehurz's sudden silence was
that his views We're no longer gra teful to
the conductors This, however, is in a way
denied by them. The contract that they
had with Mr. Schurz ran out, they say
and simply was not renewed. 1t may be
so, but we all know that, as a rule, con-
tracts don't expire so aptly without
certain compusion
II is likely that Mr. Schurz himself was
not unwilling to discontinue his articles at
this time. He Is not a man who likes to
be reserved in his expressions of opinion.
For one to whom the earnings of his pen
are consideration, he has maintained the
independence of it rather extraordinarily.
He has never been a rich man, and since
he resigned the management of one of the
transatlantic steamship companies some
years ago, his resources, I fancy, have
been distinctly limited. But he has still
eXacted, In any commission to write, all
the time that he thought the matter chos-
en- merAted, and, in the writing, has not
sighted his personal convictions. Mr.
Schurz' special study for a good many
years now, has been American history
although has writing and speaking are stin
mainly current politics. He grows now to
be an old man, being within year of 70;
but he does not show it; his carriage is
erect and vigorous his eye is bright, and
his step is light. He lives, with his daugh-
tiers, in a modest apartment, in the heart
of the city. For some time he occupied an
historic old farm house up the Hudson, an
hour or two's journey from New York
and accounted it an ideal situation; but he
finally weared of ii and came back to
town.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-12
CHAPTER II.

John Stubs felt somewhat easier in
mind when he left his noisy fellow-farm
ers in The train at Scrooby. and set oft
homeward down the dark road He was
easter, too, thai all connection between
him and everything in the town of Ful-
ford seemed now cut He felt as If Il were
a long, long while ago that he had watch
ed the miser i'm the theater and followed
him down the lane.
There were but TWO things that sharply
troubled him as he tramped along the dark
road wh0t should he say to his wife? and
what was become Of his dog? The loss OF
his collie he felt like the desertion of a
stanch friend at a critical moment: ana
he felt II all the more that he fancied the
desertion must have happened at the same
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-12

1t has been rumored that Mr.. John Nor
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-07-29
a Startling Theory.

Dr. Hoy propounds new theory re-
gart}lag Brain Food in the Angus t
nun Der Of What TO Eat" out today
The publishers offer a gold WI: tch to any
soldier receiving 100 votes as a popula
member of his command. and the girls
as we'll well az the comrades other friends
nf tn" soldier are allowed !: ballot. Ill
that j. necessary :: to SEN - cents Or
Il >tHlpie copy of rnv magazine.
FIERCE Il PIERCE, Publishers,
S32 Luml,r E&c,angr Kyi'diry, Min;:e-
apOlis, Minn.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-07-29
Give the Children a Drink

called Grain-O. 1t is a delicious. ape
tizing, nourishiny food drink to TAX, the
place of cotf'.e. Sold by all s,o:ers a;.d
liked by all VINO have used il because
when properly prepared it tastes like De
finest coffee out is free from all it., in
furious properties. Grain-O ;1i'i. dIgrs-
ton and trengthrls :''' nerves. 1t is
not stimuiunE but d health builder
and children. AS we'll as adults. can
drink it with great nenrtit. Eosts about
as much a. coffee. Is I'll -
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-07-29
DEAR DOLLARS.
BY CHAS. A. TOWNE.
q w.

Now according to Mr.. Mulhall, the
total volume of the metal in exist
ence az coin and as bullion availacle
for coenage early in the century was
in the ratio OF 1922 parts OF silver to
! OF gold, while the latest statistics
show the ratio today to be almost
exactly 16 to l.
Snail we say that France maintain
ed the parity at 15h to | when the
bulk relation was 80 2 to l, and that
the United States will not be able to
maintain it at Is to when the bulk
ratio is almost exactly Is to /?
During the last year the productions
OF gold aid of silver was particularly
the same, at coinage value.
Since 1893 there has been $780,
100000 worth more OF gold pro-
duced than silver, and since 1892
there has been over $40O,OOO.O0O
worte more of produced in the world
than OF silver. From 1902 to 1913,
ti1ty-six years, there was produced
twice as much silver as gold; from
lS49 to 1862 three times as much
gold as silver; from 1863 to 1873
twice as much gold as silver, and DUR
ing the last twenty-four years only
IO per cent more of silver than of
gold.
During time when for fifty years
there was produced three times as
mnch OF one the metals as OF the
other the ratio Was almost exactly
the French mint ratio of 15H to 1.
80 tremendous a disproportlonate
production was unequal to changing
the relation at which they were rated,
because the law clothed them with
that relation to each other and gave
them employment SO. That is all
Cnere was TO 1t.
And, now, during the last twenty
four years, when there ha We |, IN pro
duced mhre nearly equal ou; puts OF
gold and silver than at any other
time in 400 years, the market dis
proportion has been twice rs yY;
a. ever hsfore in human history "a,
reaching 81 to !.
ANA W. are asked t.: l!itve the un.
h!uka ble and Impossible conclusion
hat wlierers during ffty-six years
1Ou per cent difference in production
was unable to change. the market
ratio Ct gold and silver t. airy extent
whatever, UT 10 per cent differ encc
in twent y-four Years has changed it
over 100 per cent? lhe position is
absolutely uute,a(, b..
There Is no other possible explain.
alton but that it was the >toppage
CT n1ints which caused demand for
s.lvsr to lessen, tho value ri gold to
rise, and that OF silver and other
things to- fall; that it was this scar
cenipg of the money supply that led
silver and commodities to fall and
gold to rise.-Chicago Dispatch.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-07-29
Just What You Want

An artistic booklet entitled 'Summer
Outings" published bp the Nickel Plate
road, describing vacation resorts along
south shore OF Lake Erie. also fine list OF
country homes open to country board
ers, sent to any address on application
to J. Y. Callahan, general agent, III
Adams St., Chicago.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-07-29
Railroad Notes.

From Staples Tribune:
The Northern Pacific hauled $500
people to Winnipeg Exposition. I
Fireman Clint Jones left Tuesday
for Moorhaad where he will fire a
switch engine.
President Mellen of the Northern
Pacific is having a private car fitted
up at the Como shops for his use. .
Brakeman Bert Lewis, who has
been switching at Winnipeg Junction
came down Monday to work on the
main line.
Fireman E Brown, who has been fir
ing on the Great Northern railroad
out of Spokane, returned to Staples
Monday.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-07-29

Minneapolis Lumberman: Geo. P.
Antilles, who reresents the Pine Tree
Lumber Co. OF Little Falls, Mimi, in
southern Iowa and northern Missouri
territory, was in Minneapolis this
week on his way to the mills OF the
company at Lit tie Falls. Heexpects
to return to his trade next week.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-07-29
For Sale.

100 acres OF land, being the west x
of the northeast 4 and the west X Of
the southeast 4, section IA, town.
shid 100, range 30, Morrison county.
Price 1000. Address Scheffer &
ROssum, St. Paul. MINI.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-07-29
Miss Estella Hull (Mrs. Spicer) for
merly OF Little Falls, was married at
St. Cloud Saturday to Osmer Belden.

With FIVE German warships facing
Admiral Dewey's fleet at Manila and
the mten atoms OF the German KAISER
still matter OF some doubt, the leading
article presented in The Cosmopolitan
for July will be read with interest. The
forty-six portraits and poses Of the En-
peror William which illustrate the arti-
ule are in themselves an extraordinary
exhibit. They might be described as
1.-THE Evolution OF all Emperor shown
by forty-six human documents. Tn
deubtedly so large number OF portraits
were never gathered together vi any
royal or imperial parsonage
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-07-29
A Resolution of the American People

A Resolution of the American People.
The American people have resolved
that henceforth Spanish oppression shall
be confined to spaniards, and nothing
in the wide world will swerve them
one hairbreadth from that most just
and necessary conclusion. New Or
leans Times Democrat.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-07-29
Cuban Hammock Song.
See us softly swaying +.
Meath the shady trees,
T.ooyoc ahovo nc n1avin0

Cuban Hammock Song.
See us softly swaying .
Meath the shady trees,
Leaves above us playing
In the gentle breeze.
Cuba, Cuba ibrel -.
~. That's the song we sing
While the shadows come and 60
And the breezes softly blow. -
Cuba, Cuba libre! ~ B..
II Singing as we swing.
Bless us, this is pleasant,
31 IA Neither thought nor carel
Let's enjoy the present VI i.
f. In the drowsy air. ].
.ss &. Yanks can do the scrapping E
tHear en- bang awayD 81
We prefer our mapping
Through the drowsy day.
Cuba, Cuba librei 8s:5 .I as 5s3
That IS the song we sing.
Eating while we swing in line
% Yankee rations they are fnel
Cuba, Cuba Ebrel 35.555
Singing as.we swi Ing.
5s:s Cleveland Plain Deal
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-07-29
No Call For Music.

Possibly there may be concert Of
European powers after the Spanish
American war is over, but hardly be-
fore. There is no call for music as yet.
New York Mail and Express:
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-07-29

North Star Patent -four Ilway
gives satisfaction.
Two RIVERS MILLING Co.,
Vasaly Block.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-07-14

81, - on the school and $3.50 on the high
way tax, giving the road commissioner the
sum of sl6q3.0S for road expenses for the
year
Mr. Ncaly has moved into town and
opened a jcwclty shop at his residence -
State Chief Ranger John Eagan was pres
ent at the meeting of Phil Sheridan Court
of Forcsters.-Mrs. Howard Baker of
Springfield, Mass, is the guest of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. u. IIall-Ross
Browning of Jersey City is the guest OF
his sister, Miss Pcrsis Browning There
was an entertainment at village hall last
Monday night for the benefit of the boys
in the army. The hall was tastefully
trimmed with flags and bunting. short
programme was given, including vocal
and instrumental music. After the repast
came tho drawing of an organ for which
tickets had been sold The organ was
drawn by Arthur Scott. of st. Albans.--
Rev.W. j. Watts of Sheldon preached at
the Congregational church last Sunday
Mrs. Adoniram Nichols of st. Charles, H.,
was the guest of her sister, Mrs. G. u.
Ellis, last week.-Mrs.. Stone of Waterbury
was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Moses
Sears over Sunday.-E. W. Freeman and
family are camping at Deer Point, Char
lotte. DR.. Merritt Ferguson from New
London, Conn, is the guest of Mrs. G. NJ.
Fcrguson.-Mr and Mrs. Bert Norton of
Fair Haven arc the guests OF Mr. Nor
tors parents, Mr.. and Mrs. II. r. Nor
ton.