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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-14
The Editor and the Poets.

New York Times Literary Review.
The editor who reads a drawerful Of man.
uscript poems a day characterizes poetry
for most people as a misdirection of energy.
That there is need for more poetry in the
practical things of life, tbs true, tits very
true; but 1t is quite as true that there is
need for more practically in poetry. For
as in contradlstinction to the fact that in
the great American world of modernness
the missing factor is the heart of the ma
chine, so in the minds of the great herd of
unsuccessful artists of all kinds the miss
Ing factor Is practical steadiness, or COM
mon sense, with a touch of humor that al
ways serves as an automatic corrector or
mistakes. Through the host of rejected
manuscript poems the editor sees the I'M
trained minds OF their authors who have
never grasped the value or advisability of a
thing and who have skipped to poetry over
the everyday means of expression by which
greater minds have built the art Of litera-
ture.
The exact quality Of poetry Is misun-
derstoOd by all those unsuccessful contrib
utors-unless IL b. that poetry is form of
writing which can be used legitimately to
amuse those who have not had enough
soberness to find pleasure in prose. By its
masters IL has been supposed to be the
highest form Of expression to be used by
those who have a finer shade of meaning
than prose can well express and who
understand the art sufficiently to warrant
their tackling IL. The difficulty OF limiting
ones meanings to the sphere Of words the
poet overcomes by using form that plays
upon the imagination more than does prose,
by reason of Its cadence and Its euphony.
But the strength Of real poetry does not
come through Jingle or honeyed words.
Humorous verse and song legitimately
turn to those but nothing else. Properly
employed, prose may express more poetry
than could ever be found in the minds of
ordinary mortals. and for these mortals,
accordingly, prose is at least good enough.
In all arts it is the same. A small knowl-
edge of the art leads to the belief that the
art is small; a greater knowledge shows
one to be further and further from its mas
terry. Let him who has the itch look more
into the great poems of the century and
gain the reverence for the art that will
make him leave 1t alone, and let him study
the great prose writer's to learn what can
be done in full page lines. Poetry should be
reserved as the art of select few, for like
piano playing, 1t is only beautiful in the
hands of its masters. The common herd
should not think of 1t. the world should not
make note of what they insist upon pro-
ducing. Jingle pleases many, and the editor
has to publish poems that appear simply
an account of the lack of better ones. The
ideal editor would publish year no more
than half dozen of those he receives, but
the ideal editor would lose his lob.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-14

New York Tribune.
A contributor to the Atlantic, discoursing
with uncommon frankness on the subject
Of American humor, arrives at the conclu-
sion that we are unduly prone to exalt the
mere Jest, the silly-funny business, at the
expense of that larger humor which is
permanent treasure and blessing of life.
Apropos of this conviction he offers tribute
to woman, who is not, he believes, half so
much a goose in the matter of humor as
man has been disposed to consider her.
Her frequent insensibility to jokes does not
mean that she is blind to them-she sees
them well enough, but sees also that they
are not worth the uproarious mirth with
which man greets them. Prhaps the critic
is a little too sweeping here; but he wins
cordial acquiescence when he adds, 1T is a
dull and hasty guess that because of this
difference in taste Miss Austens sex Is de-
ficient In humor." He offers various mod
ern instances in support of his assertion
that very large part of the work done in
legitimate humor for the past few years by
Americans has been done by women. He
might have strengthened his case by mar
shaling various figures from the era just
departed Mrs. Stowe was the first of a
small but notable company of an earlier
period who dealt with rural American
character with that truest humor that
makes the whole world kin.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-14

New York Evening Post.
The late Edward Eggleston was in a pc
crliar and admirable sense a self-made
man. With only public school education,
he passed through the Methodist ministry
and by way of journalism to an honorable
place in our literature and a unique posi-
ton in our scholarship. Academic honors,
which he never sought. came to him in due
time. but he stood apart from American
academic life and from what we are pleased
to call our best traditions of scholarship;
and now his own work, though compare
lively small in compass, may well come to
be cited as precedent to the students of
our historical seminars. Out of his activity
as a novelist and his keen interest in the
shifting. social conditions of his native
State of Indiana, he acquired for himself
that ideal of historical research which is
embodied in his 1.-The Beginners of Ma
ton" and THE Transit of Civilization"
This ideal was that of reconstructing the
entire social conditions of an older period.
Our university students borrowed the no.
ton and the urgeschichte-from
Germany. They accepted this programme
of research and accepted as well much of
the German pedantry with which 1T had
become invested. Mr.. Eggleston turned to
the history of culture simply because it
seemed to him the most natural and de-
lightful way of re-entering the past. He
spared no pains In research, not because he
had acquired a scientific method" but be-
cause he had never been without Hoosier
conscience. The results of his studies and
research were as delightful as much of the
production OF our seminars is repellent to
the average thoughtful reader. 1t is de-
lightful to see a natural talent develop to
maturity through a kind of inner force and
judgment. Tertullian rejoices in the num-
ber of 'souls naturally Christian'-animae
naturaliter Christianae-which there is in
the world, and every loyal American will
find in the sober and complete achievement
of Edward Eggleston grounds for believ-
ing that far beyond conventional academic
limits the country abounds in minds which
are scholarly by nature.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-14
Books and Prosperity.
Chicago Record-Herald.


With the passing Of August the autumn
book season comes into view-the con-
gested season in which two-thirds of the
annual book output is crowded into one
third Of the year. Already the assurance is
heralded forth that the books to be pub
lished this fall will be considerably more
numerous than ever before in the history
OF the publishing trade in the United
States. Prosperity is a great breeder of
your cloth-bound reading matter, but hard
ly of literature. Each of the last few years
has surpassed it's predecessor in the size of
its book crop, that of 1901 having reached
S.1H American books; and now these are
about to be buried under still larger mass
OF new volumes.
In so far as this impending literary del
uge promises profits for publishers it is
thing to be welcomed, but in many of it's
aspects 1T is by no means an unmixed bless
ing. For the bookseller and his statesmen
it means the memorizing of many thou
sands of new titles, in addition to the other
tens of thousands which their tortured
brains are expected to hold. For the ordi-
nary mortal IL renders still more hopeless
the already impossible task of keeping
track even of the books that people talk
about. For authors of real ability it brings
but an accumulation of the unpleasant fact
that books are becoming short-lived as
magazines 1t increases the temptation to
write ephemeral stuff in slipshod way for
a transient market. Thus for the reading
public the assurance of larger output of
books is apparently a threat of further di-
luton OF its intellectual provender.
Why should prosperity cause the pub
fishers to lift higher and higher the sluice
gates that let in the flood of miscellaneous
manuscripts, rendering ii increasingly diff
cult to choose the good books out of the
chaotic mass of literary flotsam which now
goes annually hurrying past us to the near
by sea of oblivion? Publishers would be
more kind to themselves and to their pa
irons IL they used their extra capital to
meet the cost OF severer censorship of
the manuscripts that pass through their
hands.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-14
Advice on Writing.
Philadelphia Ledger.


We have received from an ingenious
youth the following request for advice:
at am very ambitions to be an author
and you will do me favor by giving me
some advice about the best way to prepare
myself to become a great writer
We are sorry that we have not at hand
any infallible recipe for forming great
writer's; but as the advice is asked in good
faith we shall give the best counsel we
have.
The asrirant is advised to start with a
sound, vigorous and acute mind of origi-
nality and power; to seize the rich spoil of
the ages contained in the great books where
the thought and the experience of great
minds are stored; to master the subject
about which he wishes to write; and to be
sure. especially, that he possesses that
swarm of ideas which Johnson attributed
to Edmund Burke. This is a suitable prep
aration. The old reprobate. Sir Pitt Craw-
ley, said to his charwoman, Tinker: Save
your fardens, old Tink, and the pounds will
come quite nat'ral." So 1t is with author
ship. Possess the qualities and accomplish
ments needed, and the writing will be COM
paratively easy.
To become a great writer presents an
other difficulty; it requires genius, which,
says Don Quixote, is granted by the par
ticular favor of heaven"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-14
PEN NAMES AND THEIR ORIGIN.
Why Certain Authors Assumed the
Names They Are known BY.

Philadelphia Telegraph.
Hundreds OF people have INDUCED in
fruitless speculation as to the reason for
the choice OF pen names by so many of the
authors OF the past and present day, says a
writer In the Cleveland Plain Dealer. why,
IT has been asked, should the late Charles
Kingsley's talented daughter choose to be
known as Lucas Malet? According to her
own confession. her modesty was the mo-
tive which induced her to conceal her
identity. so that any failure on her part
should not dim the lustre OF her fathers
fame. For this reason she combined the
names of two clever women in her family,
one OF whom was Miss Mary Lucas, the
maiden name OF her fathers mother. ane
the other Alice Malet. her grandmothers
aunt, both of which names she has thus
rescued from Oblivion.
with lady writer's the fear of family
criticism seems TO have been responsible
for many assumed names. Mrs. Alexander,
for instance, the author of THE Wooing
or and other delightful novels, adopted
the Christian name of her husband, Alex
ander Hector, and under this mask won her
fame before he was even aware that she
had written line, and Nine. Sarah Grand,
knowing that her husband, Surgeon Nc
Fall. did not approve OF her views, con-
cealed her identity under the name now so
widely known, and which she chose on &C
count of its plainness.
IL Is curious. by the way, how many lady
authors have selected unattractive and
even ugly pen names Olive Schreiner won
her laurels under the almost repellent
name OF Ralph Iron; Mrs. Craigie chose to
be known as John Oliver Hobbies deliber-
ately selecting the least attractive name
she could think OF, so that IL might not be
recognized as wOmans choice, and that IL
might warn her against any yielding to
womanly sentimentality in her writing;
and for similar reasons Mrs. Arthur STAN
nard presented herself TO the public as
John Strange Winter, unefeminate a
name as one could easily conceive.
Many writer's have reduced the mystery
of their noms de plume 10 the utmost by
simply using their Christian names as:
Mrs Thomas Anstey Guthrie. who chose
TO be known as +. Anstey; Forbes Phillips
as Athol Forbes; Anthony Hope Hawkins
as Anthony Hope, and A. r. Hope Mon
Grief Ascot r. Hope
II is curious 20 observe how almost In
yariably the pen names OF lady writer's are
either evowedly masculine or without indi-
Gray and G.. VI. Hutton Mrs. Mona Card D
name Edna Lyali. now so familiar TO US
by the simple process OF transposing some
OF the letters Of her own name: and Mile
public appellation "Ouida." which was the
nearest approach a very youthful sister
could make 10 the pronunciation of her
Christian name. Louisa
Some pen names have a distinctly humor-
Gus origin. as Luke sharp. which suggests
che obvious meaning that occurred to its
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-14
Too Many Doctors.
Detroit Journal.


The decision of the faculty of the Cincin-
natl College of Medicine not to reopen the
doors of the college this fall marks the way
that great number of medical colleges
will doubtless be forced TO walk within the
next few years. The faculty gives as the
reason for its action that the attendance
has fallen off so much since the enactment
of the state laws requiring rigid entrance
examinations that IL no longer paid TO run
the college.
IL is estimated that six thousand doctors
are graduated each year in the United
States Taking this as a basis, IL is not
a difficult problem in arithmetic to discover
that the number of doctors is out of all
proportion 10 the number OF possible pa
tents The number. however. is not so
great an evil as the ill-prepared condition
i'm which some OF these young needles are
turned out 10 practice. Many colleges take
men who lack entirely the education neces-
sary TO At them for the study of medicine.
These colleges run their students through
a two. three or four years course OF study,
and then let them loose on a long-suffering
public.
men graduated from a medical college must
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-14

liberty and patriotism thrived. OF institu-
tons which produced race OF giants
which few TO arms TO defend the Nation
in its time of trial.
The five States of Ohio. Indiana illinois,
Michigan and Wisconsin were carved out
OF that Northwest Territory which the
thirteen original States gave TO the gen
eral government before the Constitution
was adopted They were settled and con-
trolled by the poorer residents of the East
ern States, along with, later. large sprin-
Killing OF foreigners. IL was land hunger
which led the bands OF hardy pioneers TO
the woods OF Ohio, the swamps OF Indiana
and the prairies OF Illinois, and these COM
monwealths. as they grew. became a bui-
wark OF the Nation in peace and war
In his stories DR.. Eggloston fixed for an
time the character. aims and emotions OF
these forerunners OF a now enlightened civ
lization. Git a plenty while you're
gittin," a homely phrase from his first
novel, was the watchword OF the landseek-
er who braved the fevers. the famines and
other hardships OF the then far West that
he might have home for himself and
plenty for his children. IL was I'm the faith
full portraiture OF this era in our history
that DIR. Eggleston's great work was done
His books will be read when the modern
crop OF historical novels Is utterly for
gotten.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-14
Making "ImmortaIs."
London Mail

London Mail.
Academy making is a fascinating pas
time, and all lists for a very improbable
school of immortals are little more than
after-dinner entertainments. Perhaps an
assemblage that was at once sufficiently
immortal and sufficiently popular would
consist just now of Mr.. Lecky, Mr.. John
Morley, Sir Leslie Stephen, Mr.. Lang, Lord
Rosebery, Mr.. Meredith. Mr.. Swinburne,
Mr. William Watson, Rev. III. Beeching.
Mr. Thomas Hardy. Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle Mr.. Hall Game. Mrs. Craigie, Mr.
j. NJ Barrie. Mr.. Augustine Brrell. Mr.
Austin Dobson, DR.. Garnett. Mr.. Edmund
Gosse, Mr.. Rudyard Kipling. Sir Lewis
Morris, Mr.. Alfred Austin, Sir Frederick
Pollock, Mr. w. s. Gilbert, Mr.. Henry Ar
thur Jones and Mr.. Pinero. Perhaps twen-
ty-fve immortals would suffice for the
England of the twentieth century.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-14

Philadelphia Press.

Curiously enough. an American publisher
has approached Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
and his brother-in-law. E. w. Hornung.
with the suggestion thrown out in the
Press last Saturday that they should col
laborate in a novel where Sherlock Holmes,
prince of detectives, should be pitted
against Raffles, most ingenious of rascals.
This publisher, who fancied that he had
conceived an original idea, was greatly sur
prised to learn that he had been forestalled.
Another publisher had already approached
Sir Arthur and Mr.. Hornung with the
proposition. The novelists considered the
matter carefully, but finally decided that
it was unavoidable. Everybody who loves
a rafting good yarn will hope that the
gifted storytellers may be induced to
change their minds.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-14

owner Robert Barr. Mostyn T. Piggot
preserves his initials in the amusing form
of Medium Tom Plum.
The name of Mark Twain was, as Is
pretty generally known, suggested to Mr..
Clemens by the cry OF the leadsman on a
Mississippi boat, when the lead indicated
that the boat was in shallow water: Rev.
John Watson arrived at Ian Maclaren by
using the Gaelic form Of John and adding
his mothers name of Maclaren, and Max
ORell made a combination Of his grand
fathers Christian name Maxine. and his
grandmothers patronymic, OReilly, alb
prevailing Maxine OReilly to the familiar
Max o. Rel
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-14
EGGLESTON's WORK.
His Novels May Not BE "Art," Bu. Are
Truthful.
Philadelphia Record.

Philadelphia Record
According TO modern literary canons IL
is said that his work lacked artistic finish.
that his construction was poor. and that.
on the whole, he wouldn't do. Against this
Judgment we enter a solemn protest. The
author of THE Hoosier Schoolmaster'' can
not be declared inartistic or without the
pale in any sense. That work alone is
enough to give him a lasting place among
American novelists. We believe IL is not
read much now, mores the pity. for II was
the epic of time and a section which was
once of vast Importance I'm this country.
The changes OF time have eradicated large
ly the types he drew Modern civilization
has supplanted the rude institutions OF the
middle West, but that early civilization
and those rude people were important al
most dominating factors In this Republic.
The pictures which Eggleston drew In
.'1he Hoosier Schoolmaster." The End OF
the World" and THE Circuit Rider" were
true. They told OF a race which produced
Abraham Lincoln and a long list OF lesser.
though important men, OF a section where
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-14

be thoroughly qualified to practice medi-
cine according to the most enlightened and
humane methods is a public benefaction.
A summary of the expression of the opin-
ions of many eminent doctors, as published
in current medical journal, shows that
the method most favored is that OF rigid
entrance requirements.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-14

In time the business degenerated to point
at which the chief revenue was had from
vain men and women who wanted to break
into print, but did not know how.
Il dispose of my scenarios without ques-
ton, and manage to clear as much as G4OO
a year. Recently / have added advice
department. in which young authors are
instructed concerning the accepted way to
get their manuscripts read
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-14

life for a man If he keeps his eyes open
than he had ever dreamed OF in his philoso-
ply. There is a problem, a whole game Of
chess, in many a little street incident
trifiing occurrence. IL one once learns how
to make the moves"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-14
September's Promise.

o sweet September. thy first breezes bring
The dry leafs rustic and the squirrels laugh
ter:
spring.
And promise OF exceeding joy hereafter.
George Arnold.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-14

c. w. KRIEL.
English BLOCK
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Main Cigar Sto1e.
log Monument olacu.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1902-10-15
A CURIOSITY.

Mr.. Royal Givens has a curiosity
captured at the reef near his pack
ing house-something he has never
seen before nor read Of in any book
1t looks like it might be a cross be-
tween.a shrimp and craw6sh, hav-
ing a shrimp head and a erawfsh
body and lobster tail Mr.. Givens,
who thinks it came down the Nueces
river in the recent freshet, says he
is going to send the curiosity, which
he has in a bottle of alcohol, to the
at Washington, to see
if the experts there can tell any
thing about it.-Corpus Christi
Caller.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1902-10-15
: BRIGHT'S DISEASE

The largest sum ever paid for a pre-
scription, changed hands in San Fran.
cisco, Aug. %, 1902 The transfer IN
volved, in coin ana stock SIP, 500. and
was paid by a party OF Business men fo1
a specific for Bright's disease.
They commenced the serious investi-
CATION of the specific Nov. Is, 1907
They interviewed scores of the secured
and tried it out on its merits by putting
over the three dozen cases on the treat
ment and watching them. They also
got physicians to name chronic, incur
able cases, and administered it with the
physicians for judges. Up TO Aug. %,
eighty-seveh per cent of. the test cases
were either well or progressing favor
ably.
There being but thirteen per cent of
failures, the parties We're satisfied and
closed the transaction. The proceed
ings of the investigating committee and
the clinical reports of the test cases
were published and win be mailed free
on application Address John J. Full
ton Company. 400 Montgomery St. San
Francisco. Cal.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1902-10-15
Kings Daughters Meeting

Reported for THE HERALD
The Kings Daughters held a
special meeting yesterday afternoon
at the residence of Mrs. n. E. Rem
dali, at which there was a good
attendance. Business Of importance
was transacted, including the cleo
ton of officers. 1t was concluded
to give an entertainment, which will
take place Friday evening at the
residence of Mrs. Eda Whitman.
Mrs. Norman E. Kendall, presi-
dent; Miss Sarah Kennedy, vice
president; Miss Lily Whitman, sec
setary; Miss Lily Miller treasurer.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1902-10-15
DIED,

At Point Isabel, Saturday, Oct.
a1th., Juan del Toro, aged 20 years.
Deceased was Of Spanish birth, but
bad lived at Point Isabel Iabout
forty years, being an old and well
known sailor. He leaves several
children, all grown. He. was a
member Of the Spanish society of
Brownsville and a number of its
members went from here to attend
his funeral, which took place at
Point Isabel Sunday morning,
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1902-10-15
\ RAINMAKER.

P. S.-Col. Champion will prob
ably have something to say about
his shortcomings as Il sailor
when he sees this in print
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1902-10-15
FERELY PERSONAL

Mrs. Ada Wren came up from
the Point yesterday.
w. Whitman and sister returned
last evening from a brief visitto the
Point,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Putegnat
went to the Point yesterday for a
seaside outing.
W. F. bennett, who went to the
Point to see his son, Wilbur, off on
the steamer, returned home yester-
day afternoon.
Julius Lacaze, prominent citi-
zen of Rio Grande, is visiting friends
IN the city, having arrived yester-
day afternoon.
Hon. J. I KIeiber, district at
sorney, returned by Yesterdays
AIatamoros train from Rio Grande,
where he has been attending court.