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The Washington times., 1902-02-03
ATTORNEYS BOTHERED
BY AFTER R-DARK CLIENTS
Ill-Timed Calls Also Worry
Affectionate Wives.
TWO STRIKING CASES In POINT
One Husband Was Missing Until
Midnight and His Better Half In
stitufed Search for Him-AnOther
Secured Detention Certificate.

What is known in legal circles as the
'after dark" client is source Of great
annoyance and often real trouble to at
torneys. Aside from the worry they bring
70 their legal advisers their ill-timed calls
frequently cause much uneasiness TO the
attorney, particularly If he be married
man, one who always returns to his home
Immediately after office hours.
A Case I'm Point.
An instance OF the after dark client
causing much unessiness TO two families
occurred here one night last week. The
man was arrested after dark charged with
serious crime. He Immediately sent for
his attorney, who undertook 10 have his
client released on bail. The attorney sue
ceeded, but not until near midnight.
In the meantime the attorneys wife,
after waiting at home foI an hour after
Office hours for her husband 10 put in his
appearance became worried. Her first
move In locating the absent one was to
despatch a messenger to her husbands s
Office. There il was learned that the at
torney had left his Office at p. m. with
fhe avowed intention OF going straight 10
his home. This news only had the effect
OF increasing the wife's anxiety. During
the year OF their married life her husband
had never before failed to go home imme-
diately after Office hours.
Wife Wa. Worried.
The worried wife then sent a messenger
10 the home OF her husbands parents with
the hope of learning something OF his
whereabouts Her dstres was increased
tenfold when the messenger returned with
word that his parents knew nothing of his
whereabouts. The enquiry, however, was
only the means Of exciting the anxiety OF
the parents OF the attorney, and in few
minutes every police station in the Dis
trict was telephoned to, asking for infor-
nation relative 10 the missing son and
husband.
Nothing was learned at the police sta
tions, and soon personal search was
begun by the wife and the father and
brother Of the missing attorney.
Missing Husband Located.
II was not until abou; II p m that the
attorney and his after dark client were
located at the residence of one of the
Justices OF the Supreme Court OF the
District, arranging for bond to be given
for the man who was under arrest
Another instance of trouble caused by
"after dark clients is told by legal
adviser" who at the time referred TO re-
sided with his family in Maryland. He
came TO Washington every morning and
returned to the country in the afternoon,
on the z:s0 train. During the whole
summer he never once missed his train
until one afternoon when he was Just
closing his desk preparatory to leaving
his Office, two after darks" called.
Certificate of Detention.
Their business was pressing. The at |
torney at once recognized the fact that |
81 he was to attend to the business for |
his visitors he must miss the 4 80 train. |
He grasped the situation in q moment, |
snd turning TO his clients said, We'll, |
The Washington times., 1902-02-03
on To the Coast.

Mr.. and Mrs. John G. Hcssc have left
the city on an extended trip 10 California
and the Pacific Coast. They expect TO re
main away a month. Mr.. Hesse is an
employe of the War Department, where
he has been for many years. He lives
at 5GS Street southeast
The Washington times., 1902-02-03
NEW CHAPEL OPENED.
Calvary =. f. Chapel Holds It's FRS,
Service.

new chapel was formally opened yes
terday afternoon at 1903 Street north
east. The new house of worship is
known as the Calvary P. E. Church (col-
oredJ. The opening services were at $3.50
O'Clock, and were conducted by the Right
Rev. Henry Y. Satterlee. Bishop of Wash
ington. Bishop Sa;:erIee also addressed
the audience. Rev. F. l. A. Bennett is
the priest In charge
The Washington times., 1902-02-03
False Alarm of Fire.

About o'clock last night No. Engine
Company responded to local alarm Of
fire at the Maltby Building, New Jersey
Avenue and B Street northwest. Some
body sent in call for the fremen over
the telephone, but there was no fire, as
developed upon Investigation.
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WEATHER INDICATIONS,

Fair and much colder, with cold wave,
today Fair and cold tomorrow: brisk
northwesterly winds, diminishing.
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TEMPERATURE.
THE SUN AND THE NOON.

Highest temperature, p. m.............40
Lowest temperature. 10 p. m......31
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STREET LIGHTING.

High tide. 3:43 AM. and 4:12 PM.
Low tide. ..... 10: 30 AN. and IL 10 p. N.
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National-Virginia Harmed in Alice Of
Old Vincennes," evening.
Columbia-David Warfield in THE Auc-
tioneer," evening.
Chase's-Polite vaudeville, afternoon
and evening
Lafayette-"The Great Unknown" even
ing.
Academy-"The Gamblers Daughter" :"
evening.
Kernan's-"The Jolly Grass Widows
Burlesquers," afternoon and evening.
Bijou-Burlesque and vaudeville, after
noon and evening.
Convention Hall-Elks' Midwinter Car
nival, afternoon and evening.
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THE TIDE TABLE.

Sun rose. ..7:05 AM Sun sets .5:23 Pm
Moon rises.3:l0 An. Moon sets.
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AMUSEMENTS.

Lamps lit today. 500 NJ.
Lamps out tomorrow 13 A. n.
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MR.. GROUND HOG
saw HIS SHADOW
Emerged From His Retreat
Only to Return.
ODDS NOW ON BAD WEATHER
Forecnster Predicts Continued
Cold Wave-Washipgton Swept by
Land Gales, Which Damage Prop
erty.

The Ground Hog came up out Of his hole,
The air was chill, and the earth was cold;
And his shadow he saw ON the snow.
The Ground Hog said to his Ground Hog wife
II look like that you can bet your life
That back TO the hole I'll co.
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WOOD HAD ARM BROKEN.
Unfortunate Had Ii Caught in Pres,
ut &. r. o.

at G. =. o.
Mr.. Amos L. Wood is suffering from a
fracture of the right arm, sustained Sat
urday afternoon in the pressroom at the
Government Printing Office, where he is
employed.
The injury was caused by the member
catching in one Of the presses. The un-
fortunate man was taken to the Emer-
gency Hospital, where the bones were set
Mr.. Wood is fifty years old, and lives
at AL G. Street northwest
The Washington times., 1902-02-03
EXPECTING A CHALLENGE.
Naval Academy Fencing Team tt
Cross Swords With German Cadets.

Cross Swords With German Cadets.
Cadet James B. Lennon, captain of the
Naval Academy fencing team, is anx-
iously awaiting the challenge which, it
is understood, is to be sent him by the
cadets of the German practice ship
Moltke, now in Baltimore harbor.
The Washington times., 1902-02-03
For NInrdi Grns Mt
New Orleans, Mobile. and Pensacola.

seaboard Air Line will sell low-rate round trip
tickets with stop-over privileges. For full inior-
nation call 1921 Pennsylvania Avenue.
The Washington times., 1902-02-03

Norfolk q Washington steamboat Go
Delightful trips daily at $50 p. N. from foot
7th st. to Old Point Comfort. Norfolk. Virginia
Beach. and Newport News. See ad. page 0.
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"Pocket Editions"
Iden's London Letter.

w. L. Alden's London Letter.
The publishers are also making mistake
in their present belief that the public wants
pocket editions of standard novelsts. Who
earth wants pocket edition of
anything, or dreams of using it if he has
it? A pocket edition is usually printed in
even smaller type than the 6-penny novel,
eyes. More than that, ii is ruinous to the
pocket, and its weight, no matter how
small IL may be, Spoils the coat in which
1t is carried. There are those who seem TO
think that when a man goes out TO walk
he wants to carry with him a copy of "Da-
vid Copperfield' or "KsliX Holt and to
stop at intervals on the sidewalk and read
his pocket novels in the face of the Won
dering public. In point of fact, the time
when any man would care to read a novel
that he carries in his pocket seldom ar
rives. The shop girl and the shSp boy, on
their way to their daily work, often read
in dark and iolting omnibuses, but they
read penny papers and story papers, and
would never dream of reading standard
authors The pocket editions of Dickens
and George Eliot and Thackeray appeal to
failures so far as their publishers are con-
cerned.
L am glad to see that Mr.. Thomas Hardy
has refused to permit the publication of a
pocket edition of his novels, and l hope
that other prominent authors will follow
his example. The pocket is no place for
such books as "Tess'' or Jude" They are
to be read in the quiet of ones home, and
the man who would think of reading them
edition would be entirely incapable of ap-
DreCiatiQR them.
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which l would do under pressure of habit.
would be torn up the next day when incl-
nation was the moving cause OF writing"
Mrs Deland has just completed a story Tor
Harper'S Magazine-
The Literary World Of Boston is exclam-
atory over the fact that there is another
a new-James Russell Lowell. The son OF
the poets daughter has renounced the
name of Burnett for that OF Lowell. and
his own son, lately born In New York has
been christened James Russell Thus the
apostolic succession continues, in name. at
least.
One of the choicest Stockton anecdotes is
this: Last year L received a request from
London Punch TO write story for il. the
editor stating in his letter that L might
choose any subject l liked, so long as il
was not immoral. | did not find the nstruC-
tons difficult TO follow. As a specimen of
unconscious British humor, that is hardly
10 be surpassed, the Springfield Republican
thinks
Herbert Spencer, now within a few days
of eighty-three, will shortly publish a vol
ume of short essays. called Facts and
Comments" The sure way TO Outliyc ones
contemporaries some one remarks. Is TO
take to intellectual pursuits with back
gDound OF feeble health, and work indie
fatigably. so that YOU will not have time 10
die. This is the way Herbert Spencer did,
but few people know this early enough.
The temperance drama. as depicted IN
The Strollers." by Frederick s. Isham. az
one time occupied a vital place IN the the
atrical world Tom Taylor. a versatile and
vigorous playwright OF the old school. did
not disdain 10 write a play in keeping with
the movement. In lS41 his drama was pro-
duced in both London and New York. and
I'm 1850 another popular play OF this char
acter entitled. THE Drunkard's DOOM"
had a LONE run at Barnum's Museum.
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CIRCULATION OF NOVELS.
Lists of ''Best-SeIIing" Books Not to
he Trusted.
Philadelphia Press.

Philadelphia Press.
All kinds of novels are again having their
inning. No single book or small group of
books is monopolizing attention. Conse-
quently there is an even chance against the
field. Although one publisher assures me
that he is going to issue a first edition OF
100000 copies of a certain new novel, 1
think that the days of enormous sales for
novels nearly over. Most publishers
have come to the same conclusion. They
very glad of it, too, for the reason that
when people flocked-as sheep follow
bellwether-to read the book that every
body was reading, not because it appealed
TO them by reason of its authorship or sub
ject but just because everybody was
reading it, the fiction market was in a very
unhealthy and unsatisfactory condition.
No novel may hereafter reach a circulation
of 100000 or 100000. but just as many vol
umes will be sold. and there will conse-
quently be better distribution. / know
some authors of books that formerly sold
5000 or 5000 copies each when issued. but
their publishers have found it difficult in
the past year or two TO work off an edition
of 1900 or 1000 copies. and | know men who
prospered passing rich on $4,000 or $4,000
year, who have been obliged TO scrape
along on 0ne-third Of that amount because
fiction readers would have nothing but the
book of the hour" To my mind the books
of the hour, about half a dozen in ALL i'm
the past five years have been as a rule
pretty poor stuff-literary fustian.
Talking of the best selling books" let
me tell you that nobody on the inside who
knows anything about the book business
a business puts any considerable trust
in the printed lists. ] do not impugn the
good faith of any editor in whose maya
zine these little lists habitually appear.
Nevertheless, it should be remembered that
independent publications. are issued from
certain leading publishing houses. L have
usually noticed that when one Of these
ular novel il invariably finds it's way into
the list OF the six "best-selling books in
the magazine emanating from his house.
substantial agreement among the lists i'm
not mean. / said. classification of the re-
turns IL simply happens that inquiries are
directed 10 leading booksellers throughout
ally the best customers of the publishing
house from which the inquiries are sent
out. The bookseller does not ordinarily
make a minute examination OF his books
to calculate the relative sales. Finding
himself with a stock OF two three hun
dred copies OF particular novel on hand
he realizes the desirabilty OF working them
off and returns the books of which he has
pen 10 be most largely advertised al the
time being the ''best-selling books -
Somehow or other he invariably works into
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-27
How to Write Stories.
Harper's Ma gazine.

Harper's Magazine.
In any great story the creative work is
not only done first, but il is done without
Observaton"-it is a part of that emotional
and mental culture of which we have spok-
en- and which, in the soul of an artist, be-
comes storage that, like the lightning
burdened cloud. must have precipitate re-
lease. This image is too violent perhaps.
TO indicate the expression of the artist $
mood. which, whatever its tension, has a
more stable temperament and more gradu-
al release than have the elemental forces
of nature; but the operation is, like that of
these forces, spontaneous and inevitable.
There is no mental storage save of pow
err; the writer's culture is a growth OF his
power, the exercise of which is as natural
as the flowing of the fountain which be-
comes the stream. 1t is part of his life,
with the creative quality of life. tireless in
action as are respiration and pulsation
there is no burden, since in this, as in the
physical world. weight is but another name
for an attraction The burden of the art
lists work is in the inertia of his material.
which, through industry and discipline, is
translated into force-an unveiled force in
the material itself. and, through reaction,
a structural strength in the artist himself.
manifest in his firm workmanship, until
finally difficulty becomes facility.
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his lists the book in which the inquirer is

most interested.
1t frequently happens that there is an
actual run on the listed books. But as
rule these lists of best sellers are only
approximately correct indicating GER
tain novels that are being well pushed and
advertised may be in legitimate demand.
But take my advice and do not be misled
into buying a book simply because ii is
named among the best sellers" or because
everybody happens TO be reading II.
Everybody" is "A poor judge of a novel.
One should consult his individual taste and
read only what attracts him. II Is impos-
sible to conceive of novel so meritorious
and varied in its appeal that il would
entertain and interest even a majority of
100000 purchasers within a year OF its pub
LEGATION. | have said nothing at all about
true that American readers are allowing
themselves to be submerged by deluge of
ephemeral fiction. English critics who an
alive the monthly lists of 'best-selling
books frequently ask "Do Americans
read nothing but felton, They do read
great deal that is not fiction, and they get
a good deal of serious literature in the
magazines. Yet the sale and circulation of
important books in the departments of his
tory, biography, political and social sci
ence and the natural sciences are dispro-
portionately small in nation of readers.
Nevertheless, it should be remembered that
Herbert Spencer received his first general
recognition in America. that more than
twice as many copies of the life of Steven
son were sold here as were sold in Eng
land
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"THE BEST FIFTY NONSENSE.
No One Has Authority TO Make Such
Selections for Others.

Philadelphia Record.
1.-The Man with the Club" is prospective
poem which should win wider popularity
than was achieved by Mr.. Mark
hams much-discussed blank verses
on the farmland with the hoe. y
robust man with club will be
the fit subject of triumphant song when
ever he can be induced to work among the
impudent pedants who undertake to tell an
inoffensive world what are the best one
hundred books or the best fifty American
short poems and the like. The latest crimi-
nal in this line is a Frederick Lawrence
Knowles-Boston. of course. 1t is he who
processes to be able to say what half-hun-
dred American poems should have the
preference-as though he had a right TO
speak With authority and as though his
taste had been recognized as critical. The
worst of this sort of thing is that il inspires
other people to search the garrets for dusty
old scrapbooks and to urge old faVoTites
for a place in the newspaper list. or the
fifty poems selected by Mr.. Knowles thir-
ty-iive are by New England writer's, eight
by Poe and only one by the flaming South
crn genius. Sidney Danier-
Even the acknowledged literary critics
have no license to speak positively and for
all the world on such a question. Poetry is
meant to appeal primarily TO the emotions,
and whether a poem shall touch respOn-
SiVe chord depends on the experiences of
each reader. II is not merely question of
conforming to the rules of Versifcation-a
poem may be excellent from a cOnstruc-
tive point of view and yet lack the divine
spirit. This is exactly the case with Long
fellows Divine Comedy which Mr..
knowles thinks is the best of that author
poems and one of the immortal fifty. The
translation has every literary merit, but II
is not Il poem which anybody reads for
pleasure The Dantean flame Is missing.
Since appreciation Of poetry depends on
feeling, which, in turn, comes from expert
enceS and associations and the state of the
liver, there must be a wide difference of
opinion as TO the merits of a poem. Even
now there are people who could revel In the
dismal sentiments of the Bay Psalm
Book CA. ID. 1640) and in THE Day of
state of mind is expressed by the impress
Sive lines
Ny thoughts on awful subjects roll.
Damnation and the dead.
There are persons who would prefer to
any of the HOOsier poems of James Whit
comb Riley such cheerful verses as those of
Percival on Consumption" which begin:
There is sweetness in woman's decay
When the light of her beauty is fading
away.
The confirmed and incurable critic, Prof.
no poetry in LongfellOw's The Day Is
Done" which exquisite verse is not in
cluded in Mr. Knowles selections. 1t
might be thought that the makers of poems
would be competent to say what poems are
best. but on different days the judgment of
poets varies. There are too many best fifty
American poems, every reader having his
own list AS we'll undertake to get a unani-
nous vote as TO the best fifty wives or the
smartest fifty infants.
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As to Anonymous Novels.
New York Times.

New York Times.
In regard to the new custom of Harper's
Weekly in emitting signatures from all
published matter. it will be interesting to
note the attitude of authors the ques-
ton. In the case Of editorials and special
articles there probably will be no particu-
lar reason for objections, but verse, and,
above ALL fiction, seem TO stand on different
ground. To a novelist the popularity OF his
name means the difference between low
prices and narrow markets on the one hand
and brisk competition and large figures for
his work on the other. 1t is quite possible
that any single story-perhaps Ais worst
may gain for him such popularity, but IL
this story be published unaccredited the
possibility VanisheS
A recent application of the new Harper
rule is TO Duffield Osborne's serial. The
Angels of Ercole di PassignO. which has
just been concluded i'm the Weekly. Ii is
understood that the novelette, was accepted
under the old rule and published, without
notice, under the new, and that Its author
feels that an unwarrantable liberty has
been taken with his work.
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manuscript as a publisher is ready to &C
cept them, that will evolve the great
American novel, so long expected and not
yet achieved.
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Literary Notes.

Marie Corelli's forthcoming romance is
mysteriousy said TO deal with a subject
hitherto untreated eff in fiction. but upper
most in all mems minds.
The anonymous author OF ELIZA beth and
Her German Garden" and 1.-The Benefac-
tress" is said 10 be writing a book describ-
ing tour of the Baltic islands and fishing
towns.
Mrs. Deland distinctly disclsims the sort
of inspiration upon which the hedgeling
insists. 1T is my habit TO sit down at my
desk about o'clock in the morning wheth-
er I feel like il or not and work. IL ! can.
until half past Il or !. Sometimes. OF course.
one has distinct Discrimination for work
but believe that the habit OF industry is.
ton. i have tried TO act upon this theory.
even though very frequently the work
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-27
London Express.

A mother OF eighteen children told a Hull
jury yesterday that she had no idea that
roast beef and potatoes, on which she had
fed her six-months-old baby. would do IL
any harm. She had fed III her children that
way. Eleven were dead.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-27

:. SO FAMOUS MUSICIANS
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Capt. Webs Juggling Seals
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1902-12-18

Thursday the iith inst. He had been
wof king fer some time and had sent for
bis wife aud family Of fve children. the
oldest only ten years. aud they arrived
only the day before the accident. that
made the wife a widow ard the children
fatheflesS. The 5creaved has the SYN
patty Of the entire community.
The attractions al our new sVwn Of
Osata nee Nudlick are certainly S.agnctic
for IN addition to the Fist oar clerical force
who paw regular visits viz the original W
" smith. the geutiemsniv Kelly and the
impulsive Stout; Ne have % add the quiet
aud reserved G. c. liaw and the sedatc
Prof p. g. Payne who hrsved the stormy
elements and marched into the town last
sabbath The attraction NAV be Of the
feminine gender. and II so Il :s TO be hoped
"a may terminate as their names were
about to be enrolled among the confined
bachelors
The good children here aud also At
Osaka will De visited by Santa Claus In
the Sunday School room on his trip thro
90 Kentucky lie will arrive az Osaka on
Xmas eve and treat the children At Osaka
and after reieadiug De will come 10 Ston-
cca on the afternoon of Xmas dav where
the children are preparing 90 entertain
him with long speeches. after De distribute,
bic giit here bee has promised 90 visit Oh,
colofed sunday school in thc upper end
The Sunt. ot $. $. at Osaka i- -. r. Lere
Z >toue-t = >upt. is F. D.. scott an,
I kcv j VI Eviur win assist Santa Clan
Z in the col1rct sunday school and thc
are all anticipating jolly time witt
] Santa.