Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-23
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
LITERARY NOTES.


fered for the best poem, essay, and
story submitted in competition by
American college graduates in 1898.
Last year all the prizes were won by
alumne of eastern women's colleges;
this years winners are westerners,
and only one of them is a woman.
The prize poem, entitled "A Hill
Prayer is by Miss Marion Warner
Wildman, of Norwalk, Ohio, b. A,
1898, of the College for Womnen of
Western Reserve university. at Cleve-
land, Ohio. The prize essay, entitled
The Poetry of Blake; An Opinion, "
is by Henry Justin Smith, of Chicago,
B. A., 1898, of the University of Chi
cago. The prize story, entitled,
Only the Master Shall Praise" is by
John NJ. Oskison, of Vinita, Indian
Territory, b. A, 1898, of Leland
Stanford Jr. University, at Palo Alto,
Cal. Perhaps the most interest
ing item in connection with
this years competition is the fact that
the prize story writer is by birth part
Indian. The competition will occur
again next year.
McClure's Magazine for October
will be n special Dewey number; and
greet the admiral at his return home
from Manila. it will be published
Sept. 20, three DAYS earlier than the
usual time of issue. 1t will have a
special Dewey cover, drawn by G. l..
Hinton and &. ID. Graves, and beauti
fully printed in colors. 1t will open
with a fine Dewey portrait, and an
article by Gov. Theodore Roosevelt,
explaining, from the authors person
al knowledge as assistant secretary of
the navy at the time, how Dewey
came to be assigned to command the
Asiatic squadron, and what the navy
department hoped for from him in
giving him that command. Another
Dewey feature will be an article by
Joseph l.. Stickney, desert bing the adj
miral as Mr.. Stickney saw him and
talked with him almost daily during
his recent homeward voyage through
the Mediterranean, and giving passages
from his conversation regarding the
transactions at Manila, and many
other matters of great interest. Mr..
Stickney was formerly in the navy
himself; he is now staff correspond
ent of the Chicago Record; and he
stood beside Dewey on the bridge of
the Olympia throughout the fight at
Manila bay. He has long enjoyed the
admiral's fullest confidence, and in
these conversations the latter eX
pressed himself with great frankess.
Both Gov. Roosevelt's and Stick
ney's articles will be very fully il
lustrated from recent photographs.
The illustrations will comprise por
traits of Dewey and all his officers;
views of life aboard the Olympia dur
ing her homeward voyage; and pic
lures of various interesting scenes
connected with the ship and her
heroic commander.
With the fall fiction number of The
Saturday Evening Post, of Philadel-
phia, that journal will be enlarged
from q 16 TO a 24-page weekly maya
zine, with double number every
fourth week. The fall fiction number
will have a handsome colored cover
and 30 pages of short stories and en-
tertaining articles by we'll known and
popular writer's. It will be on news
stands Sept. IS. The price has not
been raised. Sarah Grand, known al
most entirely through her novels, con-
tributes to this mum Der a strong, cap
tivating short story, entitled A New
Sensation. Bret Harte tells a char
acteristic tale of the gold-seeker's
California; Stephen Crane is at his
best in graphic war story; Cutclitfe
Hyne weayes an ingenious detective
story around some counterfeit Il 900
banknotes; Bailey Willard chronicles
the love affair of a California girl, and
ex-senator Ingalls, tells the dramatic
story of BIaine's Life Tragedy. In
the fall fiction number begins Cyrus
Townsend Brady's strong serial, For
the Freedom of the Sea, nearly one
first installment. The new form of
the Post will give space. each week,
for greater number of short stories,
for page of humor and depart
ment of amateur sport.
The author of the famous Mr..
Dooley, Finley p. Dunne, has joined
the literary forces of the Ladies
Home Journal, and will create this
fall in that magazine a new character
called MOLLY Donahoe. who lives
across the street from Mr.. Doolev."
Her creator saws that Molly is bright,
pretty girl of nineteen, who has am
billions for the great world of woman's
clubs, Browning societies, golf clubs,
woman's rights organizations, and the
"high-toned literary and social life
which thrives on the elite side of Chi
cago." Her mother and brother SYM
pathize with her. but her father, who
works in the mill, is hard to deal with
in that he will insist on sitting at
table in his shirtsleeves and in his
stockingfeet. Mr.. Dooley is the
family's most intimate friend and is
called upon frequently to run across
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