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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-12

One of the men most answerable fol-
, the good name of the Authors club in
the matter of hospitality is Thomas B
Connery. If you go to any of the Spe-
cial social entertainments of the club
you will rarely fail to find Mr. Connery
there; and if you need a guide and
friend, he will serve you with a prompt
ness and good eld-fashioned courtesy
that will make it all very smooth and
pleasant for you. For many years Mr.
Connery was an important man on the
New York Herald: for fifteen years he
was the editor. During recent years
he has been the editor of several diff
ferent weekly papers-Truth. for one
and, last, Golfers Weekly. A year OF
two ago he retired from active work,
and now devotes himself to writing
simply as some subject interests or
proVokeS him. His articles are often
seen IN the magazines, and he has pub
lished several novels, and histories of
various political episodes. He has an
interesting store of political rem
lniscences. Before he became the edi-
tor of the Herald, he was it's repre-
sentative in Washington. and he has
known personally most of the public
men of his time. He is a, tall, fair man
beginning now to, walk with not too
i
straight poSture-and in voice and
eye and manner he bespeaks himself to
you as one whose primary qualities
are modesty and kindness. In a day
when, even among the literary people.
nuasting is the customary note and
seif-seeking the general attitude, it is
very delicious to fall in with such a
man-especially at club.
The London Academy, awhile back.
gave an account of a forgotten novel by
James Anthony Froude. 1t was pub
hshed under a nom de plume, ..Zeta, -
when Froude was not quite 30 years old.
and was entitled Shadows of the
Clouds The book is to be found now
in none OF the booksellers shops, not
even the secondhand ones, and it is
rarely found in any public or private
library. Its general disappearance is
que, however. quite as much to the au-
thors repentance as to the public's in
difference, for Froude himself sup
pressed 1t as far as he could. His rea-
son for doing so is generally supposed
TO have been that he concluded, on re-
Election, that the story related too much
from the authors own life. There is
another instance of a forgotten adven-
ture in woodworking by an eminent
historian, and here the author himself
mao no part in promoting the subse-
quent oblivion of his work. except that
part of falling to make it
sufficiently interesting to live. In this
instance the novelist was the eminent
historian of the Dutch republic In
1853. when Motley was % years old, he
published novel entitled "Morton's
Hope" and this was his first work. 1t
Is always mentioned with certain re-
spect by his biographers, but doubt if
any of the present race Of novel-read-
ers has ever seen~ft:a know I never
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-12
Birds and Bills.

There's something wrong with this
bill" said the young married man to the
milliner who has imported Partisan prices
as well as styles.
1T is correct in every item after
looking it over.
Eight dollars for that bird, no bigger
than my fst?''
Yes, sir, and cheap at that.
''All right, madam. III settle but it 5
robbery. We had our first anniversary
yesterday and l bought u ten-Dound tur-
KEY for 81 %
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-12

seriously out of health, so much so that
ne went to Europe in search of relief.
! He has quite recovered OF late, and !
understand that this winter he is un-
| usually well.
L understand from a friend Of joaquin
Miller's that he is very much annoyed
at the story widely published of late
that he was going on the vaudeville
stage He is now on a lecturing tour-a
perfectly plain. straight-out lecturing
tour without gimcracks or song-and-
dance attachments Of any sort-and
| that is all there is in the story. JOAQUIN
Miller has probably had more fiction
written about him than almost any
other man. That is the penalty he has
had to pay for being an original Ha
is an originSl-so much everybody
knows; and, therefore, it has seemed
likely to OVer-ima ginative writer's that
everybody would swallow any story
they might attach to his personality
however fantastic. l am told by per-
sons who know Joaquin Miller well that
he has at heart the idea of Tolstoi. and
endeavors to live in all his daily life in
close conformity with the scheme of the
gospels Like TOlstoi. he is something,
of farmer, and works and lives with
his laborers on a perfect equality. He
mas a commodious house and a little
olive farm near Oakland, Cal, and he
lives with his mother. now grown
pretty Old, and his daughter, who, for
a time, was on the stage His house is
more properly an assemblage of houses.
each room is under its own individual
roof. In his own apartment ne has col
lected various treasures; but he has
vigorously excluded from it all books
even his own, his desire being to have
nothing about that might Distract him
from living vigorously with nature. The
most unusual item in the equipment Of
the estate is a crematory, wherein Tea-
quin Miller designs that his own body
especially shall be reduced 80 ashes at
ter he has resigned the use of it.
Fruit farming seems TO be an especi-
ally attractive vocation to authors BY
mere chance 1 have already named in
this letter two who have found it so;
and there have been other rather not.
able instances One is that of e. 2. Roe,
the author, whose novels sold, in the
course of a comparatively few years, to
the unique measure of over LOCO 600
copies. During the last fourteen years
of his life, Mr.. Roe conducted a noted
fruit farm at Cornwall on the Hudson.
The story of it is quite familiar. to his
readers for good deal of the expert
ence and incident of his fruit farm went
into his later books. Yet another in
stance is that of Richard Blackmore,
whose absorption in his fruit farm has
been more or less of a sorrow to his
admirers. because it is thought to have
kept him from writing more Lorna
Doenes.' The theory is probably a little
over-fond. In the thirty years since
Lorna Doone" appeared, Mr.. Black
more has managed, in spite of the fruit
farm, to write upwards of dozen now
els, and excellent as some of them I'M
are. not one of them has
quite reached the mark of Lorna
Doone,' and probably the result would
not nave been essentially different If
there had been no fruit farm. Mr.. !
farm lies on tie bank of
the Thames, quite. near London Those
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-12

Farmer John Burroughs Out For
His Winter Visits.
MANY HOMES OF HOWELLS
ANNA KATHERINE GREEN HAS
NEW MYSTERY NOVEL.

7. B. Connery, Former Editor of New
York Herald-Forgotten Novels of
Distinguished Historians-Liking
of Authors For Fruit Farming
About joaquin Miller.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-12

thlng, Dledging him to deliver. stoutly
packed and on the cars, so many hun
dred thousand words year of his in
splred compositions. And he doesn't
set 10 his writing, and leave off, at the
sound OF a Dunctual electric bell nor
! does he prosecute it on table so con-
trlVed as TO make an automatic count,
IN plain view before him, of every word
ne pens, that he may know, as he goes
on, whether he is maintaining the pace
that the fulfillment of his contracts re-
CURES. Imagine such a thing for John
burroughs, q man who would soend
half a day sitting on a log, simply to
make sure Of the whistle of a strange
Bird
Anna Katharine Green has Just com
pleted new novel, and the serial pub
hcatlon Of it will begin in d month or
two. 1t is entitled Agatha Webb -
and L can say for 1T that it is, in point
OF interest and cOmpleXity of plot. as
notable as anything the author has ever
written. 1t is rather long story, but
the reader, once started on il, will
never give over until he has solved the
whole mystery. With any novelist, in
genuity in plat construction has to be
a. clear gift. No writer can come by
sucn ingenuity by merely setting to
work 10 acquire ii. And not infrequent-
~ noVellsts who have this gift produce
with great rapidity. But Mrs. Green
Is not of this class. She proved in her
very nrst novel, The LeaVenworth
case, published when she was 80 years
OLD. that she mad the art of plot-weav-
ing IN no ordinary degree, but she has
always been rather slow and elaborate
~ painstaking in her work. on her
new novel, she tells me. she has spent
Two 1ull years. In private life, Anna
katharine Green is Mrs. Charles RohIf.
Green was her maiden name, and. as
she has published four novels under
that name before her marriage. and had
thus made it wei known to the reading
pubic, she retained it for her books
after her marriage She is a native of
brooklyn, but her home at present is in
Buffalo.
Mr. w. d. Howells is a novelist of as
little fixity in his residence as Haw-
thorne was. Though in way chained
as with iron to his native town of Sa-
lem, and living always so apart from
the drive and urgency of the world,
hawthorne, after all, had more homes
IN the course of his scant so years of
lie than men even of great activity
arr apt to have Mr. Howells is very
parsonage, being, in a fashion.
not little of the man OF the world
pul even for such a man he has moved
early and often. He seems now to have
gwen up Boston for good for the last
SIX or seven years he has been a con-
slstent New Yorker, even to the point
OF absenting himself as completely as
possible from the city between. May and
OCTOBER But during these six. or seven
years ne has shown more or less divis-
ION OF mind regarding the part of the !
city he wanted TO live in. Twice or
more ne has made trial Of what is !
called down town." establishing him
sell on the east side, in the district |
oetween Fourteenth and Twenty third |
street, and he has experimental with |
he quarter near lower Central park. n |
s IN this latter locality that he is liv-
ng now. Something over year ago.
t VIII be recalled, he came to, be quite
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-12
Solutions.
Detroit Journal.)

They had fallen out
There is a solution for all marital
problems" he said, darkly, meaning sui
eide.
But his wife misunderstood him.
"Caustic potash she gasped aside. for
although there had been many murders
in their beautiful Chicago since the Luet-
CERT case still haunted her.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-12

Try Hewlett Bros. Pure Three
Crown Spices. There are none better
or stronger, as they are ground by
our electric spice mills fresh every
day.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-12

Ao employee Ct the hcae of New
i mas oen troubled
About O'Clock afternoon he would of which would
OFTEN continue the whole night AT per:
medicines without avail Then began reevs
me LOT DAY OF t" About visiting when m,
came on
'0ua 10 y surprise that headache gone trace of ono
SINCE bought small bottle There was
no PAIN my stomach bowels
teDo
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-12

who have seen it tell me that it is a
most charming place. and certainly the
world can afford to do without several
pretty fair novels for the sake of the
fine example OF simplicity and indie
pendence which Mr.. Blackmore has af-
forded it in his serene, industrious,
quiet lfe there
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-12

seriously out of health, so much so that
he went to Europe in search of relief.
lie mas quite recovered OF late, and ]
understand that this winter he is :un-
usually we'll.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-05-02
4 GRAND RECITAL
To Be Given at the First Presbyter.
 ian Church Tuesday Night.

The accomplished Mrs. w. H. Langford, direcsress of the First Presbyterian church choir, has care. fully prepared another organ recit- al which will be given at the church tomorrow Tuesday, evening. The program, the like of which ha. has never been made np before in this city will be com posed of the of the best talent obtainable in Ar kansas and if you fail to attend. you will certainly miss a rare treat
 Prof Stewart, of the late First Arkansas Regiment band will rem. der several cornet solos. Miss Hattie Cowpland, of Little Rock, who is known throughout the State as an expert violiuist, will be rres ent and charm her hearers with her stringed instrument, which she handles with perfect ease. Mrs. Langford, whose ability in presiding at the pipe organ is too well known to ueed any mention here, will ac company the solos. Misses Blanche and Hennie Altheimer, the two Pine Bluff asong bird fevorites, uill add 10 the excellent program with solos, A double quartette will also be present. This quartette is eomp9s ed of Pine Bluffs most select talent. One of the many grand features of this recital will be a solo by Mrs. Edgar, of Fordyce. Her voice, as described by one who has hearl her, ''is one continuous and unexeelled melody.
 Mesdames r, L, Dilley and Toss Fowler and Miss Ruby Johnson will lend their assistance making the choir one pig success. The gentle men who will also be in ,the choir are Messrs. Barlow, Fox and Nc NeilI, of this city, aud Panther. of Little Rock.
 The recital is gwen tto add to the fund which will be used to improve the interior of the already beautiful edifice. The cause is worthy one and should be enthusiastically re- ceived all, who should lend their presence on this occasion.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-05-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Love. like ice, is awfully slippery, and it soon thaws.
 Nothing makes man so sad as to have a girl jolly him.
 Beauty is like cooking stove-no good when the fuel gives out.
 Leading a woman to the altar is usually a mans last act of leadership.
 A womans idea of hopeless fool is 9 man who praises some other woman.
 Some men are so dignified that they never unbend until they are dead broke
 The man who wears a wig always puts false construction upon his own thoughts
 No one has ever been able to explain why bald-headed men have their hair cut oftener than other men.
 wife certainly has no cause for complaint if her husband doesn't love her any more-providing he doesn't love her any less.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-05-02
SOME FUNNY ADS.

Somebody has been collecting queer advertisements from the papers; here aze few specimens:
 'Wanted-An organist and a boy to 8sgE the same"
 Bulldog for sale; will eat anything; ssrx fond of children,
 NWanted-A boy to be partly outside aEaE partly behind the counter"
 Widow in comfortable circum- stances wishes to marry two sons."
 Annual sale now on. Don't go else- xAere to be eheated-come in here" 4ETor Sale-A pianoforte, the proper 1T of a musician with carved legs"
 Wanted-A room by two gentlemen about 30 feet long and 20 feet broad" A lady wants to sell her piano, as 8as Is going abroad in a strong iron Same"
 ~Wanted-For the summer, a cot 1age for a small family with good drainage.
 Wanted-By a respectable girl, her gassage to New York; willing to take eare of children and a good sailor"
 T0 be disposed of, a mall phaeton. aae property of gentleman with n1yeable headpiece as good as new"
 Lost-sNear Highgate archway, an smorella belonging to gentleman siih bent rib and q bone handle"
 ~Lost-A collie dog by man on Sat- Ugaay evening answering to Jim with 3 brass collar round his neck and a 2gEzle."
 MT Brown. furrler, begs to an- 3aance that he will make Up gowns. eapsss etc. for ladies out of their own s25na@
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-05-02
Bright spars ay1sappear,nr.

Bright spars, that is to say, unpaint. ed spars of wood, are fast disappear ing from the deep-water ships of the world, for the reason that such ships are no longer built of wood, but of steel, as are also their lower masts. and often their top mast, and, it may be, their yards, too, up to and including their topgallant yards, and these are al ways painted. There is a four-masted British ship now lying at South street wharf whose only bright spars are her topgallant masts and jigger topmost Excepting her royal yards all the rest of her spars. bowsprit, lower masts topmasts on the three forward masts and all her yards below her royals are of iron and all painted. Her royal yards are of wood, but these are paint. ed, too.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-05-02
Ibe Daily Grapbtc.

The speaial illustrated edition of ne Owensboro (Ky Inquirer was an light, hard finished book paper. The illustrations were halftones and portrayed the buildings, leading industries, and prominent business men, in very complete and tasteful manner. The arrangement and mechanical execution as well as the matter for the purposes intended, were of high grade of excellence. Ebere were sixteen pages, SIX col sarans to the page, and every dweller n the city must have felt new dignity and a new pride in the city after reading the paper. Local city pride, with an accompanying desire bg further improvements aud worthy attainments, are of untold 7alue in a live, local paper and will e9er repay frequent cultivation National Printer-Jourualist.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-05-02

THE Helena World wants to 7Fown th9 Arkansas Legislature, snd the Corning Leader wants it ss.ng. Not So fast. gentlemen. Ezayen' t we State insane asylum or something of that sort?-Maynard Enterprise.
 "Yes, and so could the litter of 2ups be given away to somebody, 3nt the safest thing, when the breed ss of, is to drown the whole ca aoodle, It costs money to run insane asylums. "-Memphis Seimi- lar.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-05-02
Clear Grit fin the xsx

If there is any one thing that the Cuban war has proved up to the handle it is that our navy is clear fighting grit all the way through Never once bas it failed under any test. Not an officer or man has finehed from any danger but many have wept because others were sent to face death without them
 Dewey daring the torpedoes at Manila
 Bageley dead in tae attempt to do . battleship's work with a little eea shell of a torpedo boat at Cardenas and Hobson throwing his life like on old coat into the channel at santiaeo were merely types of our whole noT.9 service. Every man in the fleet wanted to go With HobsoL.r-Eew York Jour nal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-05-02

Just one year ago Monday Dewey officially advised the Spaaiards that lhay were up against the areal shipg." Of the many Spaniards gbo were present npon that memorial occasion, the few that were left DO doubt celebrated their very fortunate escape in old Madrid yesterday.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-05-02

\ prominent tarfman has named promising young colt Agaiualdo, m6 be says be expects to enter him
 aext seasons hurdle races. BAen Aguinaldo runs he will no 7subt be a strong faYorite oa the 39seBgth of the sprinting abilities shown bv his ilIustrious namesake.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-05-02

5Axs the Memphis Scimitar. An Arkansas editor began an editorial eomment this way: Secretary of 4Ae German Central Committee for 1as Erection Of Hospitals for the Egeatment and Cure of Persons \ tff.cted With Diseased Lungs Dsenharp saYs'--
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-05-02

Trusts of every kind are spring ng np. The latest is the Bicycle zsast. It is an assured fact that tAey have wheels.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-05-02

IHB popular greeting yes terda7 Ras. How would you like to be the re man2n
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-05-02
WANTED.

Wanted Locks for the Florida Keys. Wanted-A crown for the brow of hin.
 Wanted-A skillful dentist to i'll the teeth of a gale
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-21
ONLY NINE HEROES IN SIGHT.
JUAN ]. JIMENES EXPLAINS WHY HIS LAST
REVOLUTION FAILED-READY TO
TRY Ii AGAIN

Juan ]. Jimenes. who has desired for years to
overthrow President Heureaux to the Dominican
Republic. has Issued appeal to the Dominican
people which, for huency in the use OF adjectves
ana power OF vituperation. is hard to beat The
translation into English. which ne IL distributing
IN this country, makes interesting II not lucid
reading This is how he refers to his last at
tempt at a revolution which ended in a Azzle:
The proof OF my determination was made owl
dent By my landing in the harbor of Montecrsti
Tor the purpose OF taking that city, with the nine
men who accompanied me upon seeing that my
plan had failed by which the city was 10 be sur,
rendered To me by those expected TO storm the
city and made its Governor my prisoner But for
.he iact that the chief OF the fortress managed to
dlers asleep in the fortress. the latter would have
daneh more easily. and the revolution would have
We're To take place In other sections OF the country
did not occur. because Of the instructions / had
given to the effect that such uprslngs must be car
not at all should fail to take IT,
One would think that a leader with sufficient
bravery to attack city with force Of nine men
would have no difficulty in attracting followers
but according to Jimenes. pretty nearly all the
fight has been scared out OF the Dominicans by the
tyrant Heureaux. Here some OF the charges
made against him by the self-apponted berator:
General Heureaux commenced by deeming CHI
merical and theoretical the system of lawful gov
ernme1t that had been practised in the government
called liberals and unable to govern those citizens
VINO being inspired by the principles OF justice
consecrated by law. did proclaim the excellence and
supremacy OF the latter: and with utter relentless
ness he rdiculed and prosecuted.
Jimines declares that Heureaux rules by assas-
slnating all who oppose him: by bribing all who
truckle to him. by robbing the public treasury by
Issuing bogus paper money and by re-electng him
self through the soldier vote For fourteen years
he has been President and in that time though no
public improvements have been made, the public
debt has been run up from $4,000 to s31, OOOO Co.,
Such is the largest dapidation Of public moneys
ever heard Of" says Jimnes
After giving numerous details to bear out these
charges Jimines winds up his appeal with this fine
burst OF feeling:
No more depredations No expoliationsl
Let the Dominican prepare to destroy forever tyr
amy on the sacred soil OF the Fatherland let them
unite In such organization that though the tyrant
should find men to accompany and uphold him his
forces may dissolve before the overwhelming ma
Jority OF citizens who proclaim liberty and in such
manner as will avoid boodshed and let the nation
respond unanimously when give the alarm upon
my landing on the coast OF our country This will
take place when | have completed my prepara-
lions.