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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-20

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schools Of washington city. Ills plan
10 to have tho government furnish the
rifles and the ammunition, as wen as m
Instructor from tho barracks, and then.
lot the school boys blnzo away OF tar
gets during recess each day. Tho boys
are very much In favor OF tho scheme,
for It will DO great fun for them, ana
we have no doubt that rs soon us tho
experiment Is started Congressman VIII
be flooded with petitions from scnool-
boys from all ovor tho country, asking
that their schools DO supplied With guns
and Instructors. but who will pay dam
ages for tho inevitable accidents?
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The Southern cotton producers are
happy, or ought to be. The staple IS
selling now ut ono cent q pound moro
than 1t brought year ago, and the ten
dency Is utill upward, There are all
sorts OF predictions rs to what Will
be the conditions later on, but there are
very few who think cotton Will go any
lower at any early date, while there are
| many good Judges who do not hesitate
to predict ten cent cotton before the
year Is very old. Whatever may DO
Its stopping point, the facts are that
the visible supply Is now 100000 bales
less than 1t was at this time last year,
and the demand for export is much great
or than It was a year ago. There seems
to be nothing this side Of tho gathering
Of this years crop 10 change these con-
ditions.
The Governor and four e1-Governors
Of Virginia will take part In the exer-
cises at Lee Camp Hall tonight, when
portrait Of James D. Kemper will BIO
presented to tho camp.
Governor Kemper was at one time
Speaker Of the House of Delegates. At
the head Of his brigade he was wounded
at Gettysburg and left on the field for
dead. In 1853 hc was elected Governor
Of Virginia, to succeed Gilbert c. Wal
ker. Once during his gubernatorial term
General Kemper might have been made
United States Senator, but he declined
to allow his name to DO used. He was
brilliant speaker, good lawyer and
soldier and an honest and candid gentle
man. During the latter years of his life
he suffered very keenly from the wound
he received at Gettysburg.
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The st. Louis Exposition managers are
showing good sense as they go along.
They have voted to have no woman's
building, but all the Same the women
will have considerable hand in rum
ming things when the big show begins.
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1t Is a wonder that there is not enough
Adam lying around to charge, some 4wo-
man with the sending Of those alleged
Rockefeller kilograms.
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Fredericksburg is determined to re-
main on a good footing. She is negoh-
ating for another shoe factory to take
the place Of the one that moved from
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-20
North Carolina Sentiment.

The Winston-Salem Sentinel says:
General Matt. Ransom made five times
as much money out Of his cotton crop
this year as he would have received as
snlary as United States Senator. The
truth is that any man fit to sit In the
Senate can earn q good deal more in pri-
vetc life than tho government position
pays"
1.-THE child labor question is; being. dis
cusseq all over the State, The Durham
Herald says
"Ir the cotton mill men cannot say
that the proposed child labor law is
wrong, we cannot see what grounds they
Gun have for fighting It."
This paragraph is from the Raleigh
Post:
1.-THE outburst Of John Wise, formerly
a yirginian and a. Southerner. but now
thoroughly converted to John Brownism,
calls to mind tnat 1t was under the adj
mlnistratlon of his own father, then
Go, ernor Wise. of Virginia. that John
Brown was hung for exercising the cour-
age to attempt to carry into practice what
this degenerate son runs to Boston; to
preach. OF the two characters, John
Brown or John Wise, John Browns Is In
firitely the more admirable: yet he was
hunG as felon, as he deserved to be-"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-20

1t is a wonder that there is not enough
Adam lying around to charge, some 4wo-
man with the sending Of those alleged
Rockefeller kilograms
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-20

1t Is proposed in Brooklyn by prominent
citizens to give Minister Bowen, who was
formerly resident Of that city. BAN
cuet before he returns to Venezuela.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-20

1t is estimated that there are 1s2. 900, 900
tons OF anthracite coal waiting TO be
worked in Ireland.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-20

On the site OF the old home Of the
once famous Captain Kidd. In New York,
q sky-scraper fifteen stories high will
soon. be erected by the Century Realty
Company and William r. Havemeyer.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-20
SO she called up and saw.

''Lemme the phone then" and our
friend got mad with the phone people
and talked SIS worth.
He is now thinking Of buying a long
distance phone
HARRY TUCKER
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-20

The st. Louis Exposition managers are
showing good sense as they go along.
They have voted to have no woman's
building. but all the same the women
will have considerable hand in run
ming things when the big show begins.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-02
The Bookman.

The BO0kman.
The new series of stories dealing with
Sherlock Holmes is TO be entitled Inc
Return of Sherlock Holmes" 1t will ap-
pear in the Strand, in England, and in
Golfers Weekly. in this country. Conse-
quently the stories will not be included in
the American edition of the Strand. Four
of the stories had already been completed
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle when we dis
cussed the matter with him a few weeks
ago. The titles of these four are as foI-
lows:
/. 1.-THE Adventure of the Empty House. :
,. THE Adventure of the Norwood
Builder
3. 1.-The Adventure of the Dancing Man"
4. 'The Adventure of the Solitary Cy-
clist.''
1t is understood that for the American
serial rights alone of these new stories
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is TO receive some
thing not far from 81 a word. This bit OF in
formation reached the ears of the senior
editors small daughter. Now the senior
EDITORS small daughter has qualified. In
fact, she belongs TO the 1nnermoSt circle
or three really, truly Sherlockians, and the
information was received by her with huge
wonder and delight. A little later she was
seen going up and down with eyes very
wide open and talking enthusiastically 10
herself. The curiosity of her elders was
aroused. and, approaching her quietly, they
overheard dialogue which ran something
like this: My dear Holmes. you positively
astonsh mel Fourteen dollars!' quite
So" said Sherlock. Eight dollars"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-02
London Letter.

London Letter.
England has a habit of justly or unjust
ly pensioning her noveists and writers who
have done work worthy of note whose
writing days are over. Several well-known
names figure in the record just issued in
London of the Civil List pensions granted
by the King in the year ending last March.
The list is headed by Miss Rhoda Brough-
ton, who is awarded $500 a year lin con-
sideration of her merits as a writer of fic-
tion." There is a certain humor in this, as
considering the pension the King cannot
consider Miss Broughton's merits great
There is something more solid in the PEN
sion of Mr.. Justin Mccarthy, who receives
81 ,25O a year for his services TO literature"
which are by no means represented solely
by his famous History of Our Own Times, J"
for he has written much and well, both in
fiction and in more serious realms. He was
a brilliant journalist before he became his
torian and novelist
BY the record, one learns that the widow
of Gardiner, the historian, is awarded $500,
and the widow of Professor Earle, the phil
ologist, $500 year. The names of the ia
vored ones are annually selected by the
prime minister. 1t will be remembered that
last year Austin Dobson was the recipient
of a $1.250 pension. 1t is interesting to note
that the sum of the pensions, not all of
them TO literary folk, amounts annually to
exactly s., $50, that being the limit permitted
by an act passed in the first year of the
reign OF Queen Victoria, owing to the abuse
of the power by the Hanoverian sovereigns.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-02
in THE LITERARY FIELD
THE "HERO- A BEING WHO HAS DE-
GENERATED IN MODERN FICTION.
England Pensions Writers Who Have
Done Worthy WOrk-An Enter
prising Publisher.

There some words which remain in
current use like fossils of some primeval
epoch embedded in a later deposit, says
G. X. Chesterton. in the August Critic.
One of these. of course, is the word hero"
The modern novelist steering a nondescript
young man through trivial temptations and
dreary embarrassments still insists on call
ing him the hero, the name which rings
with the sound of the harp and sword. To
a young gentleman of bewilderingly feeble
character. to a young man who cannot de-
eide which of three ladies he is in love
with which of six friends has really been
his moral ruin, who covers trifiing sins
with transparent lies, and coarse vanity
with crude philosophy, who loses his
faith in God when he reads half a page of
German and loses his faith in his wife when
he hears half a sentence in olub-to this
watery Reuben of modernity. it is still cor
rect to apply the most tremendous title of
Sigurd or Achilles.
1t would be interesting to trace, however
roughly, this degeneration in the use Of
the word hero" Primarily, of course, in
the great early epics, hero means hero.
being human indeed, but OF SO vast and
towering a humanity that he is stronger
than the circumstances which debase or
limit human life. The victory OF the di-
vine part of man (for the hero was COM
monty partly of the blood of the gods) over
the merely brutal part of the Cosmos Is.
OF course, the central conception of all the
fairy tales. In them, it is true, the victory
Is only victory over dragons or ogres,
but about the philosophical moral there
can be no question; and the great gap In
modern literature, gap as wide as howl
ing desert, is the almost total absence OF
what may be called a story of heroic psy-
chology. The typical intellectual romance
of our day rings the changes perpetually
upon one mourpful bell; it is always con-
cerned with the Illustration or defeat of
human spirit by the savage irony of facts.
This will appear to the lover of heroic liter
allure a thing inverted and grotesque. II Is
as If he read a string of legends in which
the dragon always ate ST. George, a
story in which Cinderella's prince married
one of the ugly sisters, a Greek legend
in which King Eurystheus had to provide
a new Hercules for each of the twelve
labOrs This kind of literature has for its
great theme the manner In which man by
faith and courage can beat down circum-
stances; OF the victories OF the body the
ancient literature spoke sublimely; Of the
similar victories of the soul modern liter
allure scarcely dares to speak at ALL But
when the work of genius shall come, which
shall give us a psychological Hercules;
which shall show that there is potentially
a rejection for every temptation; mas
terry for every mischance, much there is
event will certainly be something more i'm
portant perhaps than the French revolu-
ton. 1t Will fnaugurate a new literature
and very possibly found new religion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-02
MaeterIinck and His Plans.

Philadelphia Press.
Maurice Maeterlinck has given some in
teresting biographical particulars to a
Partisan interviewer. In view of his
projected visit to America in the near
future the following extract is worth re-
printing:
81 was born i'm Client and stNlied there
AS a pupil of the Jesuits L followed the
secondary educational course, and learnt
Latin and Greek My college years have
The discipline and methods of the Jesuits
were repugnant to my mind and charac-
ter. For instance, We could make Latin
verses at our own free will, but were for
hidden to read French poets. With
two schcolfelows-one of whom is now a
poet, the other electrical engineer-I
tried to repair this injustice, but we were
vigorously punished. Having finished my
course at the seminary. L entered the uni
versity to study law and realize one of the
dearest wishes Of my family. Relatives
often term obedience to their fancy voca-
ton. Having become an advocate by the
grace of diplomas / found i had to defend
some criminal cases; but assassins, in
cendiaries and satyrS-at least, those L
have met-have in the main only monot-
onous and rudimentary psychology. They
furnish specimens of humanity which often
have nothing human about them. soon
tried of this profession. So, one fine
day, i DOTTED the long robe and took the
train to Paris. / passed a literary season
of one year in the Latin Quarter" AT that
time, in CONJUNCTION with two other poets,
Maeterlinck started a review, which failed.
Then he met Villiers de lIsle Adam. who
Influenced him greatly. But the strongest
literary influence appears to have been de-
rived from Shakespeare and the Eliza
bethian dramatists.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-02

Mrs. Gertrude Atherton has taken an
apartment at Munich and expects to live
for some time in that city.
Elizabeth Cherry Waltz, author OF the
"Pa Gladden. stories of the magazines, Is
literary editor Of the Louisville Courier
Journal and wife of Frederic II. Waltz,
financial editor of the Louisville Herald
Their home is in Meadowbrook a pretty
trolley-connected suburb or LOUISVILLE
where gardens and birds and dogs are Mrs
Waltz's chief pride and pleasure.
When Hamln Garland was but little known
as a writer he sold several of his short
stories to the magazines for s75 each. The
stories were pigeon-holed for two or three
years. In the meantime Mr.. Garland wrote a
successful novel and, foreseeing that his
name was rising in the magazine marker,
he bought back his stories at $50 apiece and
afterward sold them for 500 each.
Miss Josephine Dodge Daskam, the sue
cessful young authoress, was married on
July % in st. Johns Episcopal Church,
Stamford. Conn, to Seden Bacon. new
York lawyer. The bride, who is a graduate
of Smith College, is known as writer of
stories for children: She first came INTO
prominence as a writer of stories OF smith
College life, and later through her books
and contributions to the magazines.
I'm Double Harness is the title of An
thony Hopes new novel, society story
which will come out next spring. Apropos
of Mr.. Hawkins's recent marriage, divers
anecdotes concerning him are going the
rounds. One of them represents him as
sitting at dinner next to young lady who
talked enthusiastically to him on such sub
jects as she judged would interest him.
Did YOU" asked one of her friends after
ward, talk to Mr.. Hawkins at all about
books?" ''Oh, dear, no.. she replied; ''-he
evidently wasn't that kind of man at all
Miss Gertrude Lynch, whose name has
become familiar to magazine readers, is
now dramatizing her novel, 1.-THE Fighting
Chance in collaboration with Mrs. Scott
Craven, the wife of the well-known actor,
and the play will probably be produced in
New York this autumn; The author of this
book leads an unusually busy life in New
York. Besides her regular newspaper work
on one Of the great journals, she acts as
literary adviser for publishing house; yet
she finds time to write fiction and has al
most completed another book, one dealing,
however, with entirely different theme.
Our climate is what keeps Henry Harland
away from this country and the fact that
he finds London the best place In the world
for leisurely work. AS far as sentiment
goes, he improves on the local pride that
calls Norwich, Conn, the rose Of New
England by calling it the rose of the
world" "a greater town than London" His
family still lives there on land they bought
from Indians two hundred years ago, and
he calls Norwich his birthplace because he
wants to have been born there. He was
born, as a matter of prose fact in Russia.
His exquisite novel of Italy, My, Friend
Prospero," now running in Mcclure 8, is the
| third of its kind from Mr. Harland'S pen
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-02
ABOLIsHEs THE swITcHMAN.


The Metropolitan Street. Railway Com
for electric lines. The switch is a new de-
vice that has not been long on the market.
but one that has been tested at Nineteenth
god results, and IL the others do as well
the whole system will soon have them.
The new switch Is controlled by the
motorman- For example. a car going south
on Main street finds the switch at Nine
teenth street turned for the track east. TX
the car goes over the switch with no con-
nectiOn II goes east. But IL the motorman
turns on the current just before he reaches
the switch IL throws the overhead switch
on the trolley wire to the west and tho
switch below Is thrown I'm the same way
by the current. The car follows the switch
and goes west
One of these switches was put I'm at Twen-
ty-fourth street and the Southwest Boule-
ward yesterday. The others viii be set In
various places on the electric lines where
they can be- thoroughly tested. The old sys-
tenn OF switching is for the conductor 10 run
around I'm front OF the car with long iron
rod and turn the switch There are places
where regular switchman is employed I'm
busy hours.
In ST. Louis the motorman does the
switching with along iron rod which he
carries on the front OF the car platform IL
the new devices, which' are made by re-
Gently organized company. prove sue
cessful as the one that has been tested by
the Metropolitan. switching electric cars
Will soon be a very easy matter, attended
with very little or no delay.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-02

Gunton's Magazine.
In America Sidney Lanier and Howard
Pyle have taken the lead in releasing boys
from the bondage of false ideals of heroic
adventure; Miss Alcott was one of the first
American writers who dared to make boys
and girls human; to Mary Mapes Dodge be-
longs the honor of first-in a story for chill
dren-so subordinating geography and his
tory to color and atmosphere, and both to
the boy who is her hero, that her delighted
reader wonders, when he gets to Holland,
why he feels as If this is his second or third
visit there.
Pluck, patriotism, energy, loyalty, indie
pendence and uncompromising revolt from
moral priggishness and conventional senti-
ment are the national ideals of character
which the English and the American boy in
fiction stand for to-day. Gallagher, Lew
and Jakin, Aldrich's bad boy. Tom Saw
yer, Pony Baker, Harvey Cheyne, Dan
DiskO and Stalkey q Co. are not always
conservative members of society, and are
often far from comfortable to live with; but.
as varying as the degrees of social position,
of opportunity and environment they rep
resent, they are thoroughly human and ma
tional in their translation of life's oblga-
TONS their desire for life's adventures, their
pursuit of lifeS pleasures, and in the energy
with which they devote themselves, in turn,
to each.
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orous way of writing had raised up a school
OF literary bad manners and bumptiousness.
When he wished to make point he drove
il in with siedge hammer. When he dis
scented from another writer. he smote him
with a fail. He fearful that people
might think him afraid of calling spade
a spade that he sometimes allowed candor
10 outrun discretion. Some of his verse is
eleverly written, and so is some OF MS
prose He was at his best in the old days
of his editorship of the Scots Observer,
before his mannerisms had taken possession
of him. and when his disciples were more
eager to do good work than TO achieve
effects" He wrote some unusually good
notes. too, for the first volume. published In
1897. OF new edition of Byron. He was
putting the second volume to press at the
time of his death. Latterly he wrote ike
scold and with grotesque affectation, his
only creditable production in recent years
having been a raucous, but, on the Wnole,
sound protest against the flood OF twaddle
in which foolish admirers had been whelm-
ing his old friend Stevenson.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-02
The Matter Of Quotation.
Client. i'm August Reader,

w. ]. Client, in August Reader.
The misquoting and miscrediting of good
verse and prose has become so common an
accomplishment that it now excites but
little comment. He who has turn for liter
airy exactness IS likely to light upon in
stances of this distortion any day of the
week The newspapers and orators are bad
enough; but the best literary publications
are not exempt from the practice. Richie
lieu's lexicon of youth rarely appears un-
qualified by bright sometimes the bright
ness is ascribed to the dictionary and some
times to the youth.
He who borrows for display the phrases OF
another should present them as their crea-
tor left them; he should CLEAN them. but
not through some third or fourth medium,
but from the authentic works of the author;
he should. in word, compose with his eye
on the book. In no other way will the living
or the dead get their just due; for the men,
DRY is not TO be trusted-it plays too fan
tastic tricks. 1t is vice to be Stunned.
this handling of other persons intellectual
belongings in way TO irritate the living
and to wiring fresh groans from the
Souls of poets dead and gone"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-02
Obliging Publisher.
PHILADELPHIA Record

Philadelphia Record.
A publisher was talking at the Franklin
Inn about the errors that the public COM
mits. Last month";" he said, II brought
out a pocket edition of John Ruskin's SEES
anne and Lilies postal card came adj
dressed to Ruskin in my care, yesterday,
and on IL was written: Dear sir: Sesame
and Lilies o. X. Please send autograph!
In my magazine | once reprinted Il Keats
ode with drawing, and a letter came for
Keats. / opened ii, thinking L had that
right. and found it to be a circular from a
publisher The circular offered to bring out
a volume of Mr.. Keatss poems for $500.
There were to be 500 copies. and 100 of these
were to go to the newspapers. can get
you good reviews, the publisher said, be
cause i know personally a great many crit
les, and they would praise your work as n
favor to me- This publisher, 1 found out.
makes his living by bringing out books at
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-02

New York Tribune.
The late William Ernest Henley was not
only a writer himself, but the cause of
writing in others. 1t is probable, indeed
that If he is remembered at all it will be
as a journalist with a faculty OF "encourag-
ing young men and as the writer who had
more imitators than any one else of his
time, with the exception of Stevenson.
There used to be a Henley cult, and there
are still belated enthusiasts who will tel,
you, with soulful soemnity. that the lines
in which he trumpeted forth his steadfast
resolution to control his own destiny are
forged of the pure gold of poetry and phil
osophy. But the cult as a cult no longer
exists 1t fell into disrepute when readers
began to realize that Mr.. Henleys too Wig