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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-02-02

schools are engaged in the patriotic and
loving privilege of raising a fund for the
erection of a suitable monument over his
grave in Winston's picturesque ceme-
terry. These laudable enterprises should
be encouraged. for surely no man better
deserves the grateful remembrance of
his country. But it is we'll for Dr. Wiley's
fame that it needs no monument of
marble or of bronze TO commemorate his
name. With his own hands and by the
might of his own genius he erected for
himself a monument that will stand in
the years to come when those of marble
will have crumbled into dust, as a source
of delight and inspiration to all succeed
ing generations For as long as from
school houses on every hill side and in
every valley in the Old North State, the
music of laughter and of song comes from
the lips of four hundred thousand happy
school children there will lack none to
sound the praises and extol the honored
named of Calvin II. Wiley.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-02-02

Ye believe in God, believe also in me
st. John, xiv, /.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-07
THE REVOLT OF AN URCHIN.

Everybody is queer, of course; and the
honest human being Is freely willing to let
other people laugh at him in fair exchange
for the amusement he often extracts from
them. At a summer-resort hotel table sat
a fine specimen of what may be termed
Imitation Bostonian. I" She was not the
real thing. evidently. but. in language at
least, was struggling hard to be the real
thing. Her figure was straight and slim;
she sat bolt upright. and wore spectacles;
also. she wore severe expression. The
small boy of ten who accompanied her
seemed to regard her with one-third awe,
one-third intelligent recognition of her alb
surdity and one-third genuine irritation
For lack Of other conversational targets,
she took a letter from her Boston bag
while awaiting her breakfast, and said. in
a clear. high-pitched voice:
''Son, will you excuse me while peruse
this epistle?''
SON made no answer, except to be-
stow sidewise on her a sullen, somewhat
indignant glance.
After the breakfast came on she again
addressed him-this tir1e in a disciplinary
tone, also clear and high-pitched:
"Son, do not imbibe fluid so freely during
your mastication."
Whereupon Son glared at her, with a
real grown-up glare; then he retorted
Jaw, NAV, you're 'nough to drive a man
to drink
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Prose WOrkmansh hin.

New York Times Literary Review.
Apropos of prose writing, it is an unfail-
ing source of wonderment to one under
whose observation comes the fiction of the
year, that so much of this work should be
so good We find no distinctive style; but
diction is easy and varied and suitable,
construction is excellent description Is I'M
affected-in short. most of the laws OF taste
are regarded. 1t is true that hardly two
out of hundred Of the well-devised and
well-written novels of the period are re-
membered six months after they are read.
but their workman-like qualities are worth
would probably give them all and double
Charles Dickens remains a formidable
rival TO the most popular novelists of our
time. More new editions of his works
have just been proclaimed. and there is
to be reckoned with a constant stream of
books and magazine articles dealing with
his writings, his personality and his his
tory. The big sellers in fiction come
and go-and their authers do not know
what real popularity means. What novel
of to-day would like "Pickwick" have
been read in the great abbey by scores of
clever men and beautiful women as they
waited for the coming of the King? We
cannot think of any living novelist to
whose readings would throng such impa-
tient and breathess crowds as those who
laughed and cried Charles Dickens re-
hearsed the court scene in "Pickwick,"
or told how little Dombey died.
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Aggregate during spring, 1861
Copyright Methods.


New York Tribune.
The legal requirement that books and
magazines copyrighted in this country and
in England shall be published simultan-
eously on both sides of the ocean some
times leads to somewhat curious devices
for fulfilling it. The sale of a very few
copies may be construed as publication"
and in case where the publishers are not
ready to put the book on public sale here
they sometimes have a few of their clerks
buy the book, which then mysteriously
disappears from public view till the time is
ripe for a more general distribution. When
short things to be copyrighted few
little pamphlets are sometimes struck off
and sold within a very limited circle-and
it may be ina gined that in some cases
these little copyright publications might
come to have a substantial value. In one
case where a magazine was started for
which already existing title was pur-
chased, in order to retain property in the
title a miniature edition of a few pages
bearing the name of the magazine was got
up at regular monthly intervals and sold
to the favored few. In this way a hold
was kept on ii till the time came for the
real launching of the magazine, when 1t
was produced in all sumptuousness and the
entire country urged to participate in the
benefit of reading it.
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A Lost Autograph.

w. S. Walsh, in the Era.
There was some talk in this or kindred
department the other day about the value
that autographs add to presentation copy
of a book. 1 have one little volume on my
shelves which is constant pang to me. 1t
is a copy of the second edition of I'm
Memoriam," and once belonged to Alfred
Tennyson himself In fact, it was an au-
tograph presentation copy from Tennyson
to Mr.. W., a connection of his by marriage.
Mr.. W., whom l knew as a boy in Italy,
presented the book to me. Twas kindly
act. for which / have ever felt lively
gratitude. Unfortunately. Mr.. w. did not
recognize (the purely sentimentaD value
which. even then. l should have attached to
Tennysons signature Perhaps he had
scruples about the giving away of a gift
book. He was travelling with but scanty
luggage, he wanted to leave some small
keepsake with me, he was at distance
from any city with shops, and he gave me
this, the first book that came handy. with
an apology that ii was not absolutely new
He enriched the fyleaf with his own auto
graph, not undistinguished one, and then
and then
He took out a penknife and scratched out
from the title page as much as he could OF
the inscription from Tennyson to himself!
Only faint A. T. remains behind to
certify that a Tennysonian autograph is
here in ruinsi
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Literary Notes.

Austin Dobsontes are wide awake over
the prospect of a new Dobsonian volume to
be entitled Sidewalk Studies"
There is TO be a biography of Ii Hung
Chang, by one who knew him-Mrs. Archi-
bald Little, the Industrious traveller and
capable author.
John Coleman, the actor, is writing his
"reminiscences of Charles Reade, with
whom he was intimately acquainted.
Dickens himself scarcely exceeds the sales
OF Charles Reade's best-known novels In
paper covers in England to-day.
One of the holiday books OF the coming
season will be a new volume OF verse by
Mr.. James whitcomb Riley. bearing the
felicitous title, THE Book OF Joyous Chill
dren" II contains verses for children and
about children, and those who have read
advance sheets say the poet has done moth
ing better or more popular.
George Brown. author OF 1.-THE House
with the Green Shutters" grimly realistic
tale of Scottish country life which was one
of the notable books of last season, died
a few days ago. He was born In Scotland,
where he suffered the pangs OF poverty. but
attended Glasgow University and won an
Oxford scholarship. After graduating he
had no relatives TO help him, and no money
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-07
In THE LITERARY FIELD
A THEORY OF FICTION ADVANCED
BY AUTHOR OF 1.-THE OCTOPUS"
Workmanship of Recent Fiction Is
Good, but the Books Lack Some
fhing-Literary Notes.

There can be no question nor reasonable
doubt but what the Language. institutions
and religion" of fiction writer's are at pres
ent undergoing the most radical revolution
in the history of literature, says Frank
Norris, in the September Critic. And 1
mean by that that the men themselves are
changing-their characters. their attitudes
towards life; even the mode and manner of
their own life. Those that are not thus
changing are decaying. And those others,
the great unarrived who do not recognize
the change, who do not acknowledge the
revolution, will never succeed. but will
perish untimely almost before they can be
said to have been born at all.
Time was when the author was an ariso-
crat, living In seclusion, unspotted from the
world. But the revolution of which there is
question here has melted out to him the fate
that revolutions usually prepare for aristo-
Gratis, and his successor is, must be, must
be-if he is to voice the spirit of his times
Alright, If he is to interpret his fellows
justly-the man of the people, the good
citizen.
How the novelists of the preceding gen.
Grafton played the great game Is no matter
for discussion for us. Times were different
then. One shut oneself in the study; one
wore velvet coat; one read a great deal
and quoted Latin; one knew the classics;
one kept apart from the vulgar profane
and never, never, never read the newspa-
pers. But for the novelist of the next fifty
years of this twentieth century these meth
DDS, these Habits, this conception of liter
allure as cult, as a refinement to be kept
inviolate from the shoulderngs and elbow
ings Of the common people, Is a clog, is a
stumbling block, is pitfall, a bog, mire.
trap-anything you like that is false, mis-
leading and pernicious
have no patience with a theory. of liter
ature-and oh, how often one hears it
preached-that claims the great man be-
longs only to the cultured few. You must
WRITE" so these theorists explain, 'for that
small number of fine minds who, because
of fine minds, because OF educa-
ton, because of delicate, fastdious
taste, are competent to Judge" L
tell you this is wrong. 1t is pre-
cisely the same purblind prejudice that
condemned the Introduction of the printing
press because ii would cheaper and vulgar
ize the literature of the day. A literature
that cannot be vulgariZed Is no literature
at all and will perish just as surely as the
rivers run to the sea. The things that last
are the understandable things-understand-
able to the common minds, the plain peo-
pie, understandable, one is almost tempted
to say, to the very children.
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and milk anew for the beneat of our read

and milk anew for the benefit OF our read
ers?' asked the correspondent.
SEEMED TO HEDGE" A LITTLE
The professor thought awhile and then
replied. weighing each word:
MY theory. as you call it. is not mine
ct ALL Some American physician-I forget
his name-is its real father. When adopt
ed it public opinion pointed to me as the
author simply because my name was more
familiar than that of the other man.
Let me be more precise and say never
maintained that injection by tuberculosis
meat is impossible. only said that such
infection. If it occurred. passed off without
serious consequences. 1 also said, and
stick to 1t, that consumption can hardly
ever be transferred from the cow to the
consumer of her milk. Cases OF infection
by this means are so fare that the millions
spent for incubation is money thrown
away.
1T would be far better to utilize that
money to erect sanitariums and hospitals
for consumptive men. women and children"
Have you been in communication with
Or. Garnault?" asked the correspondent.
He called some six months ago and told
me of the experiments he proposed to I'M
dergo I advised him not to waste his time;
or, II he insisted. to drink the milk of con-
sumptive cows for twelve months or
longer"
He refused?'
"He refused" repeated Koch, sententious-
ly. You understand IL a man cuts open
his arm for the purpose of injecting some
thing into 1t that makes more noise than
IL he sat down to drink glass of milk"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-07
Again the Literary Aspirant.

Jack London, in the September Critic.
The literary aspirant these days. or.
rather the literary artist-aspirant, or
rather the literary artist-aspirant with
active belly and empty purse, finds himself
face to face with a bowling paradox. Be-
ing an aspirant, he is conclusively a man
who has not arrived, and a man who has
not arrived has no pull on popularity. Be-
ing man, and empty-pursed, he must eat.
Being an artist, possessing the true artist
soul, his delight is to pour out in printed
speech the joy of his heart. And this is the
paradox he faces and must compass: How
and in what fashion must he sing the joy
of his heart, that the printed speech there
of may bring him bread?
This does not appear a paradox. AT least
1t does not appear paradox to the merely
literary aspirant; nor does IL so appear to
the man with the artist-soul and the full
purse. The one, unwilling of artistry, finds
II simple enough TO supply public demand
The other, unwilling of Sordid necessity,
is satisfied to wait till he has created pub
lie demand. As for the man who has ar
rived, he does not count. He has compaSsed
the paradox. But the man dreaming great
ly and pressed by sordid necessity, he is
the man who must confront the absolute
contradiction. He is the man who cannot
pour his artist-soul into his work and ex-
change that work for bread and meat. The
world is strangely and coldly averse to his
exchanging the JOY OF MS neart Tor the
solace of his stomach. And to him is it
given to discover that what the world
prizes most it demands least, and that
what 1t clamors the loudest after, it does
not prize at all.
1t is a way the world has, and it is espe-
cially the way of the twentieth century, at
least so far as printed speech is concerned.
The streak of yellow which is condemned
in journalism crops out in the magazines
Popularity is the keynote. The advertise
ments bring the cash: the circulation
brings the advertisements; the magazine
brings the circulation. Problem: What must
be printed in the magazine that il may
bring the circulation that brings the adj
vertisements that bring the cash? Where
fore the editor is dominated by the bust
ness manager, who keeps his eye on the
circulation, or else the editor is sufficiently
capable of keeping his own eye on the cir
culation. And the circulation must be large,
in order that the advertisements be many,
in order that the cash be much. So the edi-
tor prints in the pages of his magazine
that which large number of people want
TO read. He does not print what they ought
to read. for his function is to pander, not
to propaganda.
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GOVERNMENT BERTHS.
(coNcLUpED FROM FIRST PAGE

CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE)
where the seal was broken by a local
United States officer in whose safe tho
questions were held awaiting the examine
ton date. This Official, although a pres
idential appointee, was Immediately re-
moved from office and the case was turned
over to the attorney general.
Whenever there is the slightest suspicion
of a seal having been tempered with the
prepared examination is Cancelled and an
other full set of questions substituted. With
the lists OF questions sent to examiners are
always shipped from Washington blanks
and paper on which the contestants must
write their answers. In fact, they cannot
do incidental ciphering on any but the OFF,
cial paper. The sheets Of paper issued are
carefully counted and every scrap must be
returned with the questions under seal. In
fact, this paper is guarded as closely as
that upon which Uncle Sam prints his pa
per money, and If a fraction of a sheet
goes astray an official investigation Is al
ways ordered. The Washington Office is
sues shipping bill showing the exact num-
Der of sheets issued to each examining
board. and even crumpled sheet must be
Strengthened out, or, if necessary, repaired
WHERE FATES ARE SEALED.
The written answers having been re-
turned with the questions, the seals pro-
tecting them are broken in the question
ROOM" Here the paper account of each
examining board is checked up, and If it
balances the questions and answers are
sent to the tissue ROOM" From here they
are distributed among the examiners, each
nf H4e. - TIL
affixes his mark to the answers coming un-
der his Jurisdiction, and finally all OF the
answers Of the applicant go to the ''aver-
aging room," where the general average
of the applicant is estimated and affixed.
In this room the fate of the contestant is
sealed.
The names of contestants are never af-
fixed to their examination papers, but each
is given a number which distinguishes him.
The same number is placed upon an en-
velope, inside of which he places his name
and address. He seals the envelope in the
examination room, and ii is sent with
others in a separate package, also under
wax seal, to the Washington Office These
envelopes are held by clerk in the ''aver-
aging room" AS soon as a general aver
age Is marked the envelope whose number
corresponds with that of the papers is Tn
sealed and the applicants name is finally
disclosed. This disclosure is never made
until after the general average has been
worked out for the last line. A formal
notice stating the average is then sent to
| the applicant. If he passes his name is
placed on the eligible register, his rank on
this list depending upon mis- rating
Such Is the complicated system by which
the sheep will be separated from the goats
| this fall.
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS, JR.
copyright, 1907
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-07
HISTORICAL CATALPA.
Famous Tree Taken from Virginia by
Sir Walter Raleigh.
London Letter in New Orleans Times DEM

ocrat.
Probably not one in fifty of the folk from
the United States who come to London
in the thought that they have done the
metropolis thoroughly, sees relic that to
Americans ought to be one of the most
interesting here-an old catalpa tree that
Sir Walter Raleigh brought from Virginia,
and that Sir Francis Baker. the alleged au-
thor of Shakespeare, planted in Gray's Inn
gardens.
That American travellers miss the historic
tree is no reflection on their sightseeing in
dustry. Even Baedeker seems TO have over
looked 1t, and probably few people in Lon
don, outside the officials of Gray's Inn,
know its history. That history is unusually
interesting, however When Sir Walter
Raleigh brought the tree to England his
idea was to have his good friend and pa
iron, Queen Elizabeth, plant il in Gray's
Inn gardens, then favOrite strolling place
with the fashionable folk. 1t was fully un-
derstood that the Queen would do so, but
taken ill., and she deputed Bacon-who, ac-
cording to Mrs Gallup's cypher was EliZ-
abeth's. son-to take her place.
Gray's Inn. for centuries devoted to law
and lawyers, got its name from having
belonged to the Lords Gray as far back as
the thirteen hundreds. 1t first got to be a
law school In 1871, when the Elizabethan
Hall, which contains some of the finest
oak carving in England, was built. Here
Queen Elizabeth came often, and here
Shakspeare's Comedy of Errors was first
given III lojf ana uOuDlleSS seen Dy Bacon,
who began to study law at Gray's Inn in
1876 Other famous figures of the time of
Gray's Inn were Thomas Cromwell and
Lord Burleigh.
The gardens, where once the gallants and
grandest danes of the town used TO fore
gather. and where Raleigh's tree was plant
ed, still remain, almost they were, but
now there is a high iron fence around them,
the public is not admitted, and the jaded
folk who pass through shabby Gray's Inn
road look longingly in at the grass and the
old trees.
Oldest of all these-oldest. some say, of
all the trees in England-is the veteran
catalpa that came from "Virginy." In fact,
IL is so old now that it has rotted a good
deal, and has to be kept in its place by
means of braces The consequential rocks
which still live in the gardens esteem the
tree greatly as a perching place. In fact,
they have made il such a permanent head
quarters that barrel filed with drinking
water for them has been set just beside the
catalpa. This barrel stands just on the
spot where Sir Francis Bacon had bench
placed for his own enjoyment. The seat
remained there for years after the philos-
ophers death until one night when it dis
appeared, and thereafter could never be
traced. Perhaps the ghost of Shakespeare
stole it
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ton. It's authorities agreed that the bacilii
had taken and that the disease was
there TO stay unless ousted by surgery"
The correspondent inquired whether Gar
nault intended to submit to an operation
1T all depends on the decision OF the
medical faculty. II the faculty deems IL
necessary for the purpose in view that
go through all the stages OF consumption
why. I shall die in harness; II not my
friend Tussier. the great surgeon, will cut
the infected flesh out Of my arm and cure
nae"
The doctor exhibited the spot where he
had planted the flesh from tuberculous
COW. 1t was marked by scar the size OF
a franc piece on his lower arm. and there
were small yellowish excresences all
around. These" said the doctor, ARE the
baciiH with which the guinea pigs in the
laboratories are inoculated." An inch or
20 above the scar was another. and all
around the flesh appeared swollen. This
Is the place where the tubercles were intro
dnced under my skin after being cut from
the meat of a. consumptive cow" explained
Gzrnault.
On the Doctors suggestion the correspon-
dent laid his hand on the swellings- The
my tumors could be felt; they seemed like
email pimples. and resisted the touch. d.
lis there any danger that the virus mixes
with the blood and thus infects your whole
oTgansm?
s'Of course there Is" replied the doctor,
sunless the tubercles are speedily removed.
But whether that will be done or not is
yet undecided. 1 am in the hands OF SCI
ence. you know, and il there is the slight
est danger that the result of my expert
rs1ent be jeopardized by an operation will
resist any attempt to remove the poison. y
The experimental was evidently in earn
est. but would not take too much credit
for his heroic act. ct am a philosopher.
he said. accepting with equanimity every
thing that comes along"
JULES HURET.
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American Books I'm England.

London Letter in New York Mail and Ex-
press.
''The vogue of a successful American book
in England" said the English representa-
tive of a New York firm the other days, sis
largely confined to London itself. There is
really little demand for transatlantic lit
erature in the country and in the big
provincial towns. Readers in the outlying
districts have not accustomed themselves
yet to the ideas of American fiction as
phenomenon worth acquainting themselves
with. For the one thing, they are more
conservative than in cosmopolitan London,
and the Americanisms in the dress style
and spelling Of a book from across the
water have not yet compelled their favor.
Probably the clipped American version of
such words as honour 1abour' and the like
has been as formidable sticking point as
any. Then the provinces have been slower
than the capital TO abandon the opinion
that nothing really frst-class can come out
of America. If 1 were to name the man
who Is more responsible than any other for
the limited sale Of American books outside
of London, l should point to ex-President
Cleveland Some of the people who read
books have not quite forgiven his country
for the Venezuela message"