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server was started ten or eleven years later Stephenson's fame had already been established by Treasure Island" Kid mapped" "Dr. Jekyll and Mir. Hyde.' Memories and Portraits" and "A Child's Garden of Verses" Indeed. 'Stephenson'a contributions from the Pacific to MT. Hen iey's paper were rather for the purpose of helping the undertaking of his former friend-so MT. Colvin styles him-than of being helped by him.
 The following, from Pansy. Is an an- swer to a going friend or friends, Shall We Read Fiction2'
 "I am a woman of much more than middle age and my father and mother have been long gone. believe if could be young girl again in my fathers house and could carry back with me the knowl- edge which I now have of life and father or mother should object to my reading any sort of story Ralph Connor's, Shel- dons. anybodys, would deliberately and cheerfully turn from them all. And this although I believe that such stories were pure and wholesome and helpful"
 Stories. the best of them are not nec- essary to Christian life: there is no thus saith the Lord" compelling their use. There are people, good honest and earn est who do not-or who think they do not-believe in fiction. They may be mar row Tn fact, we know they are; they may be utterly mistaken. as we believe them 10 De. IT they are passing acquaintances. and our lot has been cast in broader lines. we may be able to smile a their folly tol- crate their notion good-naturedly. per maps compasslonately. and let them go their ways while We go ours.
 But if they are mothers and fathers. and we are their children still more or less under their care. and being watched over by them to the best of their abilities I declare to you that by and by every narrow notion of theirs which vva have been able to treat with respect and ten derness. every little sacrifice of opinion or taste that we have made in order mt to ruffle them, will be as a drop of baln, to our sore hearts in that hour when the truth presses down upon us, that we shall hear their voices no more. Now am ready to answer your questions directly
 l. Do l believe in stOres? Yes, I do If I did not would not spend my life in writing them.
 ?. Do believe that story often makes the truth clearer? Indeed I do. could bring witnesses innumerable who have testified to the truth of a light state ment.
 B. Do not think that stories often in- spire to higher standards and better liv- ing? I have blessed reason for thinking this and have many a time humbly and gratefully thanked God for such testi- mony.
 4. Do I not think that people who se- feet their fiction with such ideas in mind who read in sparingly and never when they ought to be doing something else. have a right to read stories, in spite of censorious criticisms? But that question I've already answered.
 Still. EWhat if your parents are uned- ucated. and have mistaken Ideas about books and opportunities and lots of things?"
 Friend, dear friend, let us make care ful distinction between lots of things If
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By the recent death of Phil May Eng fish journalism loses one of it's few re- maining illustrators and caricaturists.
 Tolstofs last book Thou Shalt Not Kin' was suppressed in Germany. It is said its tone is not sufficiently respectful to the Emperor. vt
 Thomas Nelson 6 Sons are certainly doing public service in the publication of the American Bible with American helps at the prices which they charge.
 The Society of American Authors pro- poses to bring pressure to, hear on the next Congress which will modify the postal laws, and secure for authors, news paper correspondents and clergyuaen who are authors, postal rate of one cent for every two ounces of manuscript. M Noah s. Brooks. we'll known as a writer of stories for boys and girls. died August II at his home in Passadena, Caa.
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LITTLE LITERARY SIDE ISSUES

Everybody's Magazine presents a very beautiful picture of the author of "Pru dence Pratt"-Mrs. Dore Lyon-and makes the announcement that she has been appointed Assistant Secretary of New York State Commission at the St. Louis Exposition and also hostess of the New York building-an honor, we are told-invoIving a 5000 salary. Mrs. 1,yon's editorship of the Clubwoman's S Magazine, does not absolve her from oth- CT important work among women. for she is known as the President of the New York City Federation of Womens Clubs. and also as President of the Electric Club. She is also a singer at private con- certs.
 Mir. William Garrott Brown is a grad uate of Harvard and a szillfuI writer; but fin his "A Gentleman of the South.' he gives an impression of himself that must be lasting. when he denies that love is supreme, and that there Is in 1t the only impulse to live our life. He can cer- tainly picture hatred-and it Is that that affects the feelings ot the reader un- pleasantly toward the author.
 It Is certain that Whistler as he strolls somewhat superciliously among the im- mortals whom he has lately joined. will nurse at least one abiding regret. He will be unable to read what his many biog- raphers say of him. and that. to man of whistler's temperament will be tragic. Meanwhile the chroniclers are proceeding briskIy with their self-inflicted tasks The authorized biography of Mrs. Joseph Pennell aims to be a personal study of the man, as well la the artist. and Mrs. Penneh already has at her disposal all the family and other papers. together with a number of decidedly racy and pri- vate letters. In addition to this volume. khere are announced Sor early publication at least two more Whistler books, one by the sprightly and indefatigable Mortimer Menpes, and another by Alfred q. and Nancy Bell. It is an enduring pity that whistler can rot discuss refute and get into endless serio-comic lawsuits over these publications. He would keenly rel fish the possibilities of the situation. for while he was second to few as an artist. he was second to none a disturber of the peace. However the not always gen. tie maker of enemies has gone to where he can make no more unless, indeed. he is still up to his old tricks.
 MT Gladstone said that 1t was his rule 10 comment on every book he read. "I try to make my exports equal to my inn ports'' How this must have counted in the cultivation of his marvelously vital intellect.
 The Times does not like the idea of Mir. Henley bringing out Stephenson. Sidney Colvin writes to The London Times to rorrect what he conceives to be a wide spread error as to the credit due to w. 2. Henley. as editor of The Scots (after- wards The NationaD Observer. in "launching' Stephenson in literature. When Stephenson wrote the Arabian Knights" for Henleys London in 1878 he had already been contributing essays and tales. some of them now classical" for four years to various magazines. includ- Ing the Cornhill. And when the Scots Oh-
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ative geniuses his critical faculty was keen. His judgment was never warped by professional jealousy; that ignoble trait was incompatible with his unselfish char acter. Mendelssohn. so much unlike him in temperament. he greatly admired; and Brahms, when a youth of 20, he recoS- nized as a young eagle. If he failed to appreciate wholly the genius of Wagner it was due largely to the fact that Wag- ner's artistic virtues are quite as much dramatic as musical, while Schuman canons of judgment. as well as his ge- nius, were not at all dramatic, but dis tinctly musical. There are few compos- CTS whose personalities are as winning as Schumann's. His dignifled reticence. in marked contrast to the sentimental de- monstrativeness commonly supposed to belong to the artistic temperament, his strong but well governed emotional na- ture, his generosity, his courage. his fidel- uy to friends, his devotion to his wife, his cultivated mind-all these indicate how wholesome he was and how purely a matter of physical frailty was that in- sanity which brought upon him his un- timely end This biography is a pleasant one, appreciative. rather than critical. To characterize the peculiar quality of Schumann's music is quite as difficult as
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Should the Biographer be True to Ma ture?-This is a subject which permits of much comment, since there is so much of biography being written-and avowedly with purpose. If the purpose is. that the lessons from the experience of one man may be given for the benefit of an' other, all that is necessary in the work of the biographer is, that he shall record faithfully, the course of a mans life as Outwardly seen, with all Its attending circumstance: so that a student may see, not only what a man did, but what in duced him to do it, and that his wo: may be understood the reader will demand to know the impulse of their inspira- tion. But what man would wish to be judged alone by his acts or his words! or who would trust to such outward man. Hesitation of himself, for a revelation of his real nature? Is 1t not the unstudted act, or the chance emotion, which be- trays the real man? And is 1t not true that the word and deed of the man when of guard is his message to his time! The most thrilling note which has vi- brated in the heart of humanity has been the spontaneous impulse of 9 soul re- veajing to the world it's power for the deed of glory, or the word of inspiration The heroic act, born of the moment of daring which betrayed the very fibre Of Its hero, is the one which sets all the world afiame with patriotism No less eff fective is that betrayal of unnsuspected wrong. which furnishes its lesson of warning.
 May Not Idiosyncracy Show Strength? If the purpose of biography is flor good,'' should we not know all that man was? It is possible for those who are most interested to withhold the tell ing features of a mans life. It has hap pened that the ''pecuiiarity' which was divttp frof ha fn hA known as evidence of power. A notable illustration of this is Ruskins battle with Whistler, whose work he so sneeringly characterized as "a pot of mixed paint thrown at a canvass"-and Whistler's 8 biographers dilate upon a temper which overshadowed all the artists contradic- tory fund of humor; and which, We are already led to see, as a pardonable inn patience, because his great revelation fn art coloring could not. or would not, be understood. So persistent and insistent was he in his idiosyncracy that he is scarcely out of sight before he has hum dreds of followers. We glory in this mans impatience, when with 1t goes that resoluteness and fixedness of pur- pose. that furnished to the world, the American art, that Is in influencing the artistic sense throughout the world to- day. Perhaps the incidents of most last ing import are those withheld. either by the biographer, or those furnishing them data.
 Let the Truth Be Told-It were decid- edly more entertaining that the little "by- play in a mans life be given, and, con- sistent with good common sense. that the incidents and moods of his everyday life be shown; for 1t often happens that man Is least understood by his own friends. and that, a discerning public furnishes the just construction of word and act, which, without the attending circumstance, might never have been construed. There are many re-statements fin this day of rewritten biography-and
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Pointed Tips From
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 Professor Tx0nt s3vsD Pc ths mot enthus1ast3p pra1se for his Sfogm end power'' in fas 'Tz1stoey e AznsEtcan Ldteratuxe.~
 "A dogwood, one superb mass oe w11tA Ioomsd ont of the ssmi-daFknegs un the side next the quarters. From 1rownFs Gentleman of Che South."
 MT. Hardy remarks in s7zis Dau91Gsx Ffrst'-however good puizt of v1sw.
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ing the views of the leading educators occupying widely different positions. Tn addition the minutes of the convention are included. the steps leading to the formation of the Association, its consti- tuition. officers and members. The book will repay study by any one that would gain acquaintance with the latest ideas on religious educations by all agencies. (Executive ofhce of the Association, 153 Lasalle Street, Chicago).
 What Shall I Do to be Saved" by E. E. Myrum.-Brief chapters on various kinds of sin. with motives to repentance and direction toward the way of saliva ton. (Moundsville. w. Va, Gospel Trum- pet Publishing Company. Cloth, 50 cents; paper, 25 cents).
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I. with a better opportunity of cultivation have a more enlightened conscience than my father and mother. and believe in my heart of hearts that the course they want me to take will be to my spiritual injury because it is inherently wrong, then in deed.
 But consider how few in this favored land of ours. how very few. there are whom are likely to be urged by their parents into what they themselves believe to be wrong. If what my father or mother demands Is simply a sacrifice of taste, of entertainment, of a few hours or mo- ments of enjoyment, why. then--yes, mar row as 1t may seem. assure you that. as I now look at life. the entertainments should be sacrificed, the tastes crucihed. Graves are narrow. but they are deep; they can hold whole world full of vain regrets.
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Miscellaneous.

Schumann, By Annie w. Patterson If Schumann were stiI living. he would not be quite as old as Pope Leo XIII was at his death. Yet Schumann seems to belong to a musical epoch decidedly removed from our own times. Such d fact illustrates how very much alive the art of music Is, and how great is the need of music is, and how great is the upon contemporary composers. Of sanity in judgment Schumann himself was a
 conspicuous example. Unlike most cre-
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The Golden Dwarf This Is an English story. The heroine has fair. huttering curls and blue orbs. These latter become. alas! piteous orbs as the tale proceeds; l; for much. that we leave the reader to find out befalls the lady and her well-set-up lover. This gentleman, we regret to learn in time of troupe blasphemes. But he Is usually a very decent chap, and we are rather pleased than not, since against al- lurements of raven hair he remains true to locks ripping and blonde, and we leave him in the last chapter with their owner pillowing her fair curls on his breast. U. c. Page & Co.}. '.s.
 The Daughter of the Dawn. By William Reginald Holder. If any reader remem- bers with interest those once popular books, She" and "King Solomon's Mines" he may be sure of like pleasure in reading ''The Daughter of the Dawn" New Zealand. not Africa, is the scene of the later writer's story, and the plot Is quite his own: but the mystery and magic spells and incantations, are all here that lent an atmosphere of entertainment to the early work of H. Rider Haggard, and should make an equally successful to those who enjoy the purely imaginative in fiction. Q.. c. Page & Co.).
 The Captains Wife. A tidy little craft,
 
 to her log! Clark Russell spins a fine sea yarn, with a stowaway, mutinous mate, sunken treasure ship. and all accompa- nied with what fresh variation of those familiar themes the lover of the nautical novel will wish to acquaint himself, on his own voyage of discovery. G. C. Page X Co).
 The Career Triumphant By Henry R1ruha m PnOne A man Of this daV and generation. a Virginia gentleman. might marry a yelled lady. He might. when af- ter five years of mystery. she had dis closed herself to him and there had fol- lowed decade of charming domesticity he might then. without apparent provo cation, urge her to return to the stage which she had quilted for his sake. But we do not think he would! Hence we are compelled to say that. in our opinion ''The Career Triumphant" is a highly im- probable and inartistic book. CD. Apple ton S Co.).
 The Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch. If this story is a novel made from a play, 1t was evidently written to be dramatized. The situations are of the theatrical sort and the conversations have the tone of the stage. The love of a mother for the child from whom her wrong doing has separated her. Is the motive of the book. It would need a much more masterly set ting forth of character, however. rightly to win the readers sympathy for Mrs. Hatch. CD. Appleton & Co).
 The Man With the Wooden Face. By Mrs Fred Reynolds. The scene of this story is laid in Wales. and there are good descriptions of scenery throughout its pages. There Is no plot. for the tale is of love pure and simple. and the char acters are a company of people of the present day who are passing their holi- day together in the mountains. There is much jealousy. gossip. and little in- trigue exhibited in the situations. but in spite of all true love wins the day and the sirnule pure-minded orphan girl wins the lover at last. It is an easy and pleas ant hook for vacation reading (Fox, Duf- field & Co).
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Philosophy Four. By Owen Mister. A very brisk and entertaining story about two Harvard boys and their pre-examina- ton struggles with a course in philosophy for which they were cramming under a pedantic tutor. How they ran away from
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The Religious Education Association The formation of this association and its first convention last Febrary attracted wide attention. and the results of the or ganization have been awaited with mucn interest This volume gives in full the addresses given at the convention, GOV ering a wide range of topics and present.
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-01-25
Poison Claims Third Victim.

Charlotte, N c., Jan. 24.-The third
case of blood poisoning at the North
Carolina medical college at Davidson
is reported The victim is William
Strong, brother of DR.. G. M. Strong,
of this city. Mr.. Strong was taken
with violent chill and his symptoms
are identical as in the cases of both
Boyce and Mcleod Mr.. Strong had
been attending the two young men
who are so sorely afflicted. In carry
ing some wood to the room he knock
ed small portion of skin from his
hand. 1t is supposed that it was in
this way that he contracted the fear
full disease. Strong was brought to
Charlotte and was taken to the home
of his brother on East Sixth street.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-01-25
ROBBERS WERE FolLED.
Biggest Plot In Criminal History of
Montana Was Frustrated.

montana was r FuSrrdted.
Salt Lake, Utah, Jan. PA special
to The Tribune from Red Lodge,
Mont, says that officers of Carbon
county have evidence in their posses
sion showing that the famous Bridg-
er bank robbery last October was
only intended as the first step in one
of the biggest plots in the criminal
history of Montana.
The statement is made by high
county official that when the cases of
the Bridger bank robbers came be-
fore the district court, the prosecution
will prove that it was intended by the
gang, after the successful robbery of
the Bridger bank, to assemble 20 men
in western Carbon county and make
a raid on Red Lodge and loot the three
banks in that city. The plan was
frustrated by the capture of the men
who are said to have robbed the
Bridger bank.
This is the second time a plot has
been formed to raid Red Lodge. Last
summer officers received word that
the Hole-in-the-Wall crowd were on
their way to hold up the town. The
desperadoes, however, learned that
the officers were prepared to receive
them and abandoned the plan.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-01-25
FATAL TRAIN WRECK
At BRISTOL, TENN.
Switch Engine Crashes Into
Freight Train.
BRAKEMAN INSTANTLY KILLED.

Both Legs Were Cut Off and His Body
Horribly ManeIed-Engneer Davis
Was Also Badly Injured and May
Die.
Knoxville, Tenn, Jan. PA special
to The Sentinel from Bristol, Tenn,
says
A wreck occurred in the local rail-
way yards this morning, causing one
death, and probably fatally injuring
one, and the destruction of one loco
motive and other property.
A switch engine and cars belonging
to the Bristol Iron Furnace collided
with a Virginia and Southwestern
freight train. The Funace engine
was ditched, and Brakeman Sidney
Massey, who was on this engine, was
instantly killed. Both his legs were
cut off and his body was horribly
mashed. Robert Davis, engineer,
was injured internally and had his leg
mashed. He may die.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-01-25
Reecher MennriaI

New York, Jan. 24-In connection
with the plan to remove Henry Ward
Beecher's body to Plymouth church.
in Brooklyn, and erect a memorial
building adjoining the church, it has
been suggested that the entire half
block to the west of the church be
purchased, razed of it's buildings, and
converted into a breathing place for
the poor along the water front, under
the name of Beecher park. It is
thought that the property could be
secured for about 100000, and the
idea is receiving serious consideration
although it is entirely apart from the
original plans for which a fund Of
$150,000 is now being raised.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-01-25
THEIR HOPES BLASTED.
Americans Will Not Share In John
Tison's Bio Fortune.

Americans Will Not Share In John
Tison's Big Fortune.
lew York, Jan. 24-Hopes of
American Tisons for a share in an es-
tate of $40o00,080 left by James II
son, an Australian miner, have been
dissipated as the result of thorough
investigation. j. Wesley Allison, of
Philadelphia, who married Miss IT.
son, retained capable lawyers to in
vestigate the matter and obtained doc
umentary evidences showing that
none of the Tison's in this country or
England need expect any of the James
Tison property in Australia, as it was
given to his heirs shortly after his
death in 1898.
Scores Of persons in Long Island,
New Jersey, Ohio and other parts of
the country have, at various times,
endeavored to establish their rights
to the fortune. Members of John
Tison family in New Jersey, claimed
the estate in 1899; then DR.. L. B. I'll
son and his sister, of Kenton, O., were
named as the next of kin to the mil
lionaire. Another heir named was
Miss Elsie Tison, of California.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-01-25
BREAK SEEMS UNAVOIDABLE.
Tension of Relations Between Brazil
and Bolivia Increasing.

New York, Jan. 24.-The tension of
relations between Brazil and Bolivia
because of the Acre dispute is increas-
ing daily, according to The Herald's
Rio de Janeiro correspondent, and it
is believed here that a break is un-
avoidable. News of the departure of
the Acre expedition from IaPaz has
caused great excitement.
The government mas resolved to
send military and naval forces not
only to the Amazon but also to the
province of Matto Crosse, on the
southern frontier of Bolivia The
cruisers Maresca1 DeCorro and Tippe-
ca and several other vessels have re
ceived orders to go to Manaos, where
also will be sent military division
under command of General Caesar
Sampaio.
The government believes the United
States will remain neutral in the Acre
dispute.