The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-28

The organization of another literary
club is not an astonishing bat of news
lint the recent establishment of THE
Boswell Club" in New York City is
noteworthy because of the men who
make UP its membership. Truly Sam
Johnsonian is the club in two particu-
lars; the regular occupations Of the
members are editing and writing, and
their diversion in a body is eating.
There are no rules, except the under
standing that membership is limited to
thirty, the club meets once a month,
and three consecutive absences Of
member means dismissal.
Five or six magazine editors are
members. Among the writers are Jas.
J.. Ford, Alfred Henry Lewis, David
Graham Phillips, ]. w. Fielder, Samuel
Hopkins Adams, o. K. Davis and Ar
cher Huntington.
It is a curiosity in the book world TO
find Shakesperian play among the
best selling books This, however. seems
TO be the condition just at present.
Julius Caesar is in healthy demand
dous popular and critical success of
Richard Mansfleld's presentation of the
noble tragedy. He has made Shake
separe's Julius Caesar the triumph
of the year on Broadway, where only
few seasons ago he was the subject of
that cartoon "A Stranger in New
York" Two new, and no doubt unique,
editions of Julius Caesar" are under
way One is to be called the "Richard
NHoDcAald ESditfOr and will pnbOdV
the great actors notes on the acting
version The other is to be less ambi-
tious from a scholarly standpoint, but
will be highly ornate in establishment
from drawings of Mansfield as Brutus
in several scenes and the remarkable
crush of rioters in the Forum. The
booksellers declare that they are clean
ed out of their paper copies and are
preparing large additional editions to
cover the orders now coming in from
the cities which anticipate visits from
Richard Mansfield in Julius Caesar"
at the end of his New York run. Not
bad for Shakespeare.
J. Fennimore Cooper himself could
have wanted nothing more romantic
for an incident in one of his novels.
than the meeting of Charles A. East
man, the fullblood Sioux author of
Miss Elaine Goodale. The thing, as it
happened in real life. was quite as adj
venturous as anything Cooper's mag
ination ever produced.
Miss Goodale was one of the "Sky
Farm" poets. Her fame has been
spread by her book of Apple Bios
som" verses, and a great literary ca
reer had been predicted for her. New
ertheless, she had deserted her liter
L. L
trested in the Indians, she felt that the
work of her life lay among them. She
rcughed it for some years in the Da-
kotas, as supervisor of the Indian
schools, and at Christmas time. $780,
found herself at the Pine Ridge
agency, preparing to spend her holt
days there. With the other young wo-
men at the post she was helping decor
ate the little Episcopal church of the
agency for the Christmas services,
when the joyous preparations were in
terrupted by the Indian outbreak and
the battle of Wounded Knee. The little
church, half ready for the Christmas
celebration, was turned into a hospi-
tai, and into ii with scores of wound
ed Indians came DIR. Eastman. The
young Indian-educator and poetess
worked beside the swarthy native.
ministering to his patients and helping
at operations. The natural result fol-
lowed this side by side labor In
very few months after their first meet
ing, Or. Eastman and Miss Goodale
were married.
And the last chapter of the story is
Just such as Cooper would have de-
lighted to make 1t. They are ideally
happy. Five children have been born
TO them-the oldest Dora, is eleven and
has all the beauty of her mother, and
the youngest is just beginning to tod
die. There is one boy. four years old,
who bears the name of his father
''Ohiyesa,' which means 1.-THE Success
full One" For him the book Indian
Boyhood" was written. though it will
be some years yet before he will be
able to understand how wonderful a
life his father has lived.
The fact that Elaine Goodale's first
book of verse sold some 10000 COPIES
In less than two years, a most re-
markable record, led her friends to be-
heve that she made great mistake
in devoting her life to the Indians
Many of these solicitous people be-
came alarmed for Miss Goodale's safe
" when she was chosen for super
Visory work among the Dakota In
dams. Later they told the story of
her that She had all at once dropped
out of sight, had turned to the life OF
the Indian and was living a strange
life in the tepees of the Sioux, dressed
like them and eating the same food. In
a tepee, so the story went, she met
her future husband, but this was only
one of the false accounts of her life
then.
A view of her now is given by a
friend who recently visited her.
Il found Mrs. Eastman sitting in a
cosey parlor in front of an open fire
place. She is a woman noticeable any
where for her beauty of face and form.
In her arms she held a baby, her own.
but the child had not inherited any
OF the attractiveness of the mother.
II was veritable old squaw minia-
ture 1t was queer sight this beauti-
1ul woman holding the homely pap
poose, with its glittering eyes, every
move and every expression marking
II as an Indian. 1t seemed a change
ing from the tepees. but the mothers
crooned to il as mothers always have
done ana the mother love was not dim
med.
The loss Of a career in letters Is
nothing to the gain of life of such
devotion as this.
The other day Mr.. Henry HarIand
walked into the Office of a. New York
publisher whom he had known years
before. and exclaimed:
My word. but this is tremendous. Do
you mean 20 tell me this Is all YOUR
business and all these your people?
why" he went on. the last time ]
was In your office, remember you had
one room and two or three clerks, and
then the contrast OF the situation
seemed 10 set the aHfhoF epeaghfeay