The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-30

It Is not often that a man may be-
come famous in two widely separated
fields. Brand Whitlock is one of the
few who are coming to that distinction
In his home city, Toledo, Ohio, he is
known as one of the best criminal law
yers in the state; the book world knows
him only as the author of 1.-The Thir-
1eenth District" and as a writer OF
short stories. 1t is in this latter field
that Mr.. Whitloclk engages attention
He is the kind Of a writer who writes
only because he has a story to tell
rather than because he thinks he must
tell a story. His profession brings him
into touch with life as few profess
sions can. The other day he was en-
gagged on a case involving over 100000
when a woman came to him with the
request that he try to rescue her way
ward daughter. Mr.. Whitlock dropped
his important case at once, and a re-
united family's happiness was his re-
ward 1t is just this sort of thing
him, and it is such experiences that
gives him his hold on life when he
comes to express the thing in a story.
Not long ago Mr.. Clarence S. Oar
row, one of the leading lawyers of
Chicago, made Mr.. Whitlock a most
tempting offer TO join him in his Chi
cagO firm.
Il couldn't take it," said Mr.. Whit
lock afterwards, because I'm doing
some good here and I'm able to write
here when [ feel l must write'
Sometime during the summer Mr.
Whitlock will complete his second now
ei, story of life in a small Ohio town,
which will be- brought out this fall.
Making Yellow journal.
E w. Townsend. in his last book,
Lees ana LeaVen," knows, of course.
what he is writing about when If
comes to telling of journalism as it is
practiced, so the following descrip-
tlon OF yellow journal methods may be
taken as a fair picture:
Young Paxton, who had made a rem
1tation as poet and humorist on the
W hite River Advocate, comes to New
York with his sister Grace, ten1pted
by an offer from the Yellow Chronicle.
Towards first visit to the Chronicle
was an experience. He found chaos
III the reporters ROOM
4 don't think 1 could do very much
work out there" he said to Carson
the managing editor, and that wortbv,s
reply was, with an assurance that the
special writer should have a room TO
himself somewhere:
Oh, that's the boiler shop! The
KIND OF work we do out there would
come TO standstill If We kept things
quiet.
The theory is that nothing here
must be allowed to fail into a rnt
and II men are allowed to work under
normal conditions, their work becomes
normal We want abnormal work: we
want men who are putting the news
the local matter, the features, the SUBJ
urban stories into shape to be under
" pressure or excitement, to be a bit
tatlleu' little insane, in truth; for
lya11-
staTtling-fancfes as to fhn
take" win 9iioulu
Carson went on: Some men can't
stand II; they break down in health or
go wholly insane. A little insanity
ISM pad thing. We've had lots of
stunning features suggested by men
we were nursing along to keep EN- from
gong wholly mad. But we don't s11h-
Ject our special and editorial writ.
ers 10 that strain" Concerning the ed
ltorlaIs, Carson explained that the
ueddIy commonplace was wanted
II nat style" he said, carries an air of
proiound wisdom to our class of read
S S, Howard got more light on the
IoAIcIe methods from Turnbill. one
OF the star reporters.
Have you made a long eneaoe,,,o,,+
with the Chronicle?" asked TurnbjII
at the dinner table.
no length of engagement has been
mentioned" Howard answered.
a contract without a time Iimit?"
"A contract 2"
don't want to appear inquisitive.
put nave you no contract?"
N-no. Our correspondence was
Geographic and he repeated the sense
Carson. Feu lrolii
Turnbill inverted the glass from
which he had been drinking and smiled
It's remaining drop Of wine on the
moor. Not worth. that" he said.
and this is the training school of
some OF our modern novelists.
Identity of Nym crnkIe.
few days ago the newspapers
chronlcled the death of Andrew g.
wheeler, better known as "Nym Grin
kIe, and up to that time his identity
with ). p. Mowbray" was never
known, save to his publishers. The
statement came like a startling reveal
ton. Mr.. Wheeler had earned a lust
1ame as "Nym Crinkle," and had re-
ured from active newspaper work to
a country home in Rockland county
New York. Then one of his friends
the editor of a New York paper. asked
MN MN, 10 write some papers on nature
Ihus began the Journey to Nature y
signed u. P. M" The ESSAYS We're
brought out in book form and SO many
inquiries came to the publishers that
MI. wheeler told them to say that 7.
+; NJ. was j. P. Mowbray, a retired
wall street broker. Then he wrote
tangled Up in Beulah Land" and
other publishing firms began to write
TO Mr.. Mowbray for articles. Mr.,
wheeler, however, kept the secret of
authorship and, shortly before his
death, compiled another J. P. M. book,
The Conquering of Kate" This story
viii be issued in two or three weeks.
There is little doubt now that Mr.,
wheeler will be remembered as at p
Mowbray' long after "Nym CrinkIer
is forgotten.
A Book of the Spring.
One Of the very best books of the
spring season among all the works OF
fiction thus far brought out, is Josenh
Conrad's Youth" The volume is
made up Of three novelties, Youth. y
The Heart of Darkness" and "The
Bnd of the Tether." Marvellous in
English are these three tales of earth's
waterways, SO good, indeed, that very
likely they will not be popular. II
used to be said that nothing was Sc
good for young writer as to read
stevenson. Now one might almost saw
instead, read Conrad. The breath OF
the sea, the spirit of adventure, the