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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-02
NEW BrEL-ooII.EcTINo DEVICE.

Buffalo Express. When a young hualnesa nan in biz ofice building went Co his ofiice yentex-
 day afternoon he found on his desk a
 note in feminine hand asking him to call at a certain apartment house or Main street between 6 and g o'clock thst
 evening. The note was signed Miss Wright"
 The young man thought immediately that the new summer suit he had worn for the first time on the previous after noon had made an impression on some maid. so shortly after o'clock he was at the Main street apartment house. Miss Wright live hereT inquired the
 young man of the maid who answered his
 ring.
 "she does. Whom shall sayf" inquir- ed the maid.
 "oh, never mind any name. Just tell
 her that friend is here and would like to see her"
 The young lawyer was ushered into
 the parlor. Tn a few moments there was
 c swishlng of skirts in the hallway. then
 a pretty. smiling young woman appear ed.
 She extended her hand to the visitor.
 I'm so pleased to see you" said the young woman.
 Your note came as a surprise" he said at the same time beginning to wonder.
 ''Yes. was awfufly sorry that you were not at your office when called. | wanted to see you so badly. You know have been looking for you for several days. had your name and address and | you were one of the first young men I | called on when came to the city" "Indeed?' said the young man, datter- ing himself at being honored by caiI | from one so charming. | For fifteen minutes they chatted. Ffnal- ly. the young man asked her If shs l wouldn't go out to lunch some evening. ''It would more than please me-" said | the young woman M What evening would you suggese | asked the young man. "Oh. er-say Saturday evening at The | Iroquois at o'clock" | ''Very we'll" said the young man. "Eew~ | en o'clock it is." | The young lawyer then said he guessed | he would hasten home.
 "Oh, by the way, never told you what my business with you was." said the l young woman.
 | ''NO, ou didn't" confessed the lawyer.
 well. you see. represent the Colcnfal | Collecting Agency and one of our cltlsnts | (naming a we'll known Buffalo livery
 frm).. has a little bill against you. If is only slo and, sof course, if you win settle
 1t now. why it will save you court ex- | first with me and really would Do will- | ing to sacrifice that dinnsr if you will
 settle this bill for---'' She didn't get any further.
 Young woman" said the visitor, ''this
 is the biggest bit of impertinence that | have met with in some time. If you think you are going to ca1ole me into paying that bill you are sadly mistaken. I won't pay 1t and you may also cail our dinner engagement off" With that he rushed from the room and | slammed the front door behind him. | And the vouue lawyer from the hfa off, | fee building is not the only young man | who was led to the Main Street apartment
 house by note; but most of them paid | their bills.
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With Makers an0 Lovers of Literature
Revolutionary Literature,

Discussing this subject in a recent edi- torial article. daily contemporary says;
 'sDr. H. N Snyder. president of wof-
 ford College. who Is delivering series
 of lectures at the summer school of the
 South at Knoxville. recently discussed
 the literature of the American Reyolu- ton. It was first asked whether that
 period had furnished a literature, the
 answer being that if taken in its mar rower sense. as consisting of ideas touch
 cd by emotion and made beautiful by imagination, there Is no such worthy
 literature. But if we mean the refiec- ton of the spirit of a. people touched with passion and permeated with convic-
 ton. there is a very interesting litera-
 ture-one of ideas rather than of imag- ination, found in prose not in poetry.
 and emphatically literature of pro- test &aH
 "The spirit of the Revolution dates back father than the Revolution Itself. Its first conspicuous manifestation Is found in . protest against the autocratic government of Oglethorpe, issued in I74o by three men, Toillefer. Anderson and Douglas. The next writer was William Henry Drayton of South Carolina. whom | pr. Snyder considers, the political ances- tor of John c. Calhoun. since he protest ed in 176e that the spirit of union of all the colonies would tend to impair the individual rights of the South Carolins. In his Letters of a Freeman" and his charges from the bench. Drayton gave
 notice that violation of the rights of
 South Carolina by the King was virtual abnigation. This may be considered the genesis of the doctrine of nulllfication.'' Virginia, however. furnishes the two greatest writers of that time-Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson The speeches of the former teem with the best American spirit. rousing the people to the resistance of tyranny. The latter contributed not only the Declaration of Independence. but had previously framed reply to King George in 176s. and pro
 duced a paper in .1774. setting forth the
 underlying principles of American gov ernment.
 It is refreshing to find teachers of Eng fish literature broadening the field of view. Not long ago 1t seemed that lit- erature was to be confined strictly to the novel, the romance, the poem and the
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V Hereward The Wake aa
BY CHARLES KINGSLEY.

The publishers state in an introductory preface that this edition is printed to meet a long felt want for an illustrated edition with biographical predatory me- moirs. The biographical sketch following is of interest to lovers of Kingsley. Tt is difhcult," says the biographer, ito de- fine Kingsleys exact position in htera- ture on account of his versatility" Emil nent as historian, scientist. theologian, and famous as novelist and poet he has called forth this tribute from Chevelier Bunsen, Prussian Ambassador In London for many years: ''I do not hesitate to call these two works The Saints Trag- edy and Hypatia, by far the most i'm portant and perfect of this writer. In these more particularly l find justiica- tion of a hope which l beg to be al- lowed to express,-that Kingsley might continue Shakespeares historical plays. l have for years made no secret of 1t, that Kingsley seems to me the genius of our century The tragedy of St. Elizabeth shows that Kingsley can grapple not only with the novel, but with the more se- were rules of dramatic art, and Hypatia proves on the largest scale that he can discover in the picture of the historical past. the truly human, the deep. the per- manent and that he knows how to repre- sent it." The preface closes with these words of Professor Max Muller: Fame, for which he cared so little. has come to him His bust stands in Westminster Abbey, in the Chapel of St. John the Baptist, by the side of his friend, Fred erick Maurice; and in the Temple of Fame which will be consecrated to Vic toria and Albert, there will be a niche for Charles Kingsley. the author of AL ton Locke and Hypatia."
 Says the biographer. further. In sec ond introduction to Hereward the Wake: Tt Is not strange that Kingsley should have chosen the fens as the scene of a historical novel. Barnack, Northampton shire, was his home from his 7th to his
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Like all wives who write memoirs of their husbands. Mrs.. Frank R. Stockton rather over-estimates the work done by Stockton, and gives him a higher place among writers than he deserves. In her memoirs. prefacing the Captains Toll Gate" Mrs. Stockton informs us that this novel was written and completed be- fore Kate Bonnet, by the same author. but its publication was delayed while he wrote Kate Bonnet by special request; and the Captains Toll Gate was only pub lished after his death. She writes all the way through as If of a great genius; yet any one of critical taste must agree that the only really fine thing Stockton did was Rudder Grange. and nearly all the rest is a rather delicate order, of farce- comedy. written to please a popular taste. Popular it is, for Mrs. Stockton tells us some of his fairy tales for children have been translated into almost all the lan- guaees of the world: but 1t Is not great from a literary point of view. like that of the author of Alice fin Wonderland, and does not entitle Stockton to that rever- entiai attitude which his wife takes to- wards him and his peculiarities.
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11th year. when the old fen still existed near it. An his spare time for the first two years of his University life at Cambridge was spent with rod and gun and collecting box among the hard-f1sted, hard-drinking fen-men. living their lives and learning their folklore"
 Again: Tt was natural that the gallant Wake should he his hero. In all the re- ligious. scientific, educational and social questions which were the marked fea- lures of the Victorian epoch between 1S4O and 1870 he was to be found in the forefront of the battle against ignorance and vice, bigotry and oppression, regard less of consequences"
 To those who have not read Hereward. the Wake, 1t will be of the greatest in- terest. Although the reader might not be ready to accord Kingsley a place among the very greatest, his books nev- ertheless contain fin very high degree, that dignity and high-seriousness said of true greatness, and at the same time the simple narrative of the novel is suf- ficient to charm a child. He has the faculty of making a fine scene out of a mere side issue in the story, and so rests the mind from the too rushing oc- currences of the main plot. Such a scene is that in chapter III. page 99. in which hefeWdru ana Wdke goes Wltn Martln Lightfoot to the priest to be shriven. Some very witty and interesting dialogue oc- CUTS between the three men, and the reader is enabled to judge them-their in tellectual caliber, l mean-as correctly as if he were listening to a conversation in real life. It recalls the graveyard scene in Hamlet. Kingsley has. also, the much lauded gift of connatation; he never over does his people. and they do not tire by being too brave, too villainous, too faith l full. nor too cumulative. Much of this he owes, no doubt to the fact that he makes his characters true to life by making them true to history. q. F. Taylor & O., N. Y) Hal Steed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-02
BY FRANK STOCKTON.

There Is some very good character work In the Captains Toif Gate. The puhiish- CTS say: "The scene is laid partly in Washington, but mainly in that part of West Virginia in which the author spent the last three years of his life. Incidents centering about the toll gate and fash ionable country house in the neighbor- hood are related with all the authors pe- culiar humor and charm of diction which have endeared him to host of readers. The heroine, who Is an embodiment of the healthy. vigorous girl of today. and her several suitors. together with the mistress of the country house. and med dlesome unmarried woman of the vil- lage, combine to afford the reader fasci- mating and varied illustrations of the so- cial life of the period"
 Mfr Hemphill and secretary of the Austrian Legation, guests at the country house and suitors of the heroine. are rath- CT we'll done in a small way. and some real wit Is put into the mouth of the poet, Claude Locker, also a suitor of the hero- inc His entrance on the scene Is very amusing, and everything that he gays af- terwards is humorous. The author does
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drama. Great legislative codes. great judicial opinions, great orntions, great histories and great scientific treaties were not Included in literature and were. therefore, not deemed worthy of the at- tention of the English student
 Strong clafms havs been justly made fat the predomipence of the study of our mother tone,tsf h schools and colleges and generous portions of a limited curriculum have been granted 1t. But it is absurd to rest so broad upon SO narrow a base as the mere ascetic side of literature. art for arts sake. tabooing all literary lahox that is means to some further end. making mychroscopic study of the intr1- cacies of Browning. the wit of the Cantez~ bury tale and the melhhuous measures of Tennyson-training indeed the car solely to catch the weird notes of
 '-rhe horns of eaf-iand faintiy biowsng--- amid the hlare of martial music. the beat incisive utterances of the courts the thunders of the forum, the attrition oR master minds discussing problems essexz- tial to the welfare 5f the human race At tenti0n to the aescetic alone tends to train set of dreamers willing to initiate the example of Mark Antony who murmured soft love songs to Cleopatra while Octa,- vius was sending Antonys galleys to the bottom of the sea.
 There is no nobier literature in the world in form or substance than the nra,- tions of Pericles, the speech of Denaostfe~ nes on the Crown, Cicer0s orafione against Catiiine, the speeches of ErkkifA against the law of libel, of Burke on csfs- ciliation with America. the Constitutis of the United States. washington's fars well address, John MarshalTs decision "A the separation of the powers of the StaA and the United States. the debate ok Hayne and Webster. and CaIhoun.s "nls- quisition on Government" Tn this lask work Calhoun has rivaled Aristotle. His exposition is succession of sylogisma tho logic of which is faultiess. His style ts as clear as crystal. his language so pure ana simple that any child could understand iE The youth or the adult who has mastered the style and mode of thought of tha great Calhoun need fear no advernarw. After one has completed a study of thasa masterpieces he knows full well what sa meant by sentiment. beauty. eioauenca. reason. statecraft and philosophy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-02
A An Essay on Laughter &

grow into the laugh? Dr. Sully solves the problem by reference to the propen- sity of our primitive ancestors to tickle one another. But while engaged in this pastime one of the two might not be certain that his comrade was really en- toying the sport, even if his face bore the smile A smile can be deceptive. A vocalization of the smile or in other words laugh, was necessary wholly to reassure him that the process of tickling was still agreeable to his playfeliow. The author while stating his theories subjects to rigorous criticism other theories so ludicrous that the primitive man. if he had known of them. would hardly have needed the medium of mutual tickling to evolve the laugh from the smile. But to Dr. Sully is due the credit of having made the first attempt to set forth on a considerable scale the philosophy of laughter; and really he has done very well.
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Dr. Sully is a well known writer on psychological themes. His more recent book called Studies of Childhood" has drawn to itself wide attention, and Is frequently quoted by leading psychologists on both sides of the Atlantic. The pre- sent essay is devoted to a thorough ex- animation of the origin. the nature and the causes of laughter. Its scope Is ex- tensive enough, however, to include such subjects as Laughter in Social Evolu- tion," Laughter of the Individual: Humor," 'The Laughable in Art; Comedy" ultimate Value and Limita- .tfons of Laughter" In fact, is astonish- ing how much can be said of this ap- parently simple topic of laughter. While it interested such philosophers as Kant. Illegal, Schopenhauer, they gave 1t hardly more than passing notice in their writ ings But Dr. Sully carries his theme through 432 pages, packed with luminous
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The book which bears this title contains the Clifford lectures. delivered in the Uni versity of St. Andrews, in the session of 1902-1903. The lectures are profoundly philosophical and sometimes require the closest attention that the drift of their thought may not be lost. The author sur prises us when he informs us that he delivered these extremely abstruse dis courses extemporaneously. This was an intellectual feat of the highest order. He himself seems to think little of it, but is inclined to apologize for having dis pensed with the written lecture. T did not choose this form" he says, from any indisposition to find time to write. The reason was that experience in other vacations. of the difficulty of explaining remote and obscure issues to those whom had to assist to grasp them. had taught me that one ought to watch ones an- dience, to follow the working of its mind, and try to mould ones discourse accord ingfy. did not see why this should not be as true for an academic lecture hall as 1t did to me of other places. Whether I have been right do not know What is printed in the pages which follow is, ik all events, just what the stenographer took down, with verbal cor rections." But the author may assure himself that the lectures are not the worse for their extemporaneous form. They are divided in two sections. The first deals with the meaning of reality. and the second with the criticism of cate gories. Their view point Is that of the Hegelian philosophy, although there Is a decided ring of present-day thor ght in them. Mir Haldane informs us toward the close of the book that all that Is in these lectures he has either taken or adapted from Hegel, and that in Hegel there is twice as much again of equal importance which the lectures do not even touch.
 By the pathway to reality he means,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-02
BY JAMES suLLY, M. A., IL. D

information and careful analyses. The smile is the oldest form of laughter. Tn the absence of better evidence, the fact that the smile appears first in life of the child must according to well-known law of evolution, be taken as favoring the hypothesis that mans remote ancestors learned to smile before they could arise to the achievement of the laugh" Dr. Sully then traces the origin of the smile to the pleasurable experience of stated appetite The bases of the smile is a movement of the mouth. Now watch the infant after 1t has had good meal. You will observe that it goes on perform ing something resembling sucking move ments. ''The first smile may have arisen as a special modification of these nove- ments, when there was q particularly lively feeling of organic contentment or we'll being" But how did the smile Tn the course of racial development finally
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pigeon alighted and finding the window closed. tapped upon 1t with its beak. The Pope heard the sound and ordered that the window be opened, whereupon the bird entered the room and perched upon the bed.
 The Pope sent his valet for crumbs and fed the pigeon from his hand meanwhile caressing it's feathers. He instructed the valet to see that the bird was fed after his death.
 His character stood out as a reassur- ance to the race the vindication of that faith in the possibilities of human nature which keeps men spurred to high attain ment.-Exchange.
 He is mourned wholly for himself in an age which, more than any other, makes every man a part of system the representative of a place"
 Pope Leo died at o'clock Monday afternoon. Piocentra. the valet who as- sisted the Pope until the last moment told a newspaper correspondent in voice choked with sobs: 'aThe Pope's last words were for me. He gratefully whis- pered: Thank you, my son, thank you. As the end approached a very little peace full smile overspread his features"
 The accomplishment of the Pontihcate of Leo XIII is open before the world. His work has been prodigtous for the activity of a single man slxty-eight years of age at his accession to the papal | throne. delicate frail and spiritual, there were many who predicted his early death. It soon became apparent that simplicity and frugaHty of living enabled Leo XIII to husband his strength, and to accom- plish an amount of work devolving upon | the head of the church, which to men of far greater physical strength would have seemed appalling, and that more than this that indomitable burned within | his fragile shell of body.
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at the Holland House until tomorrow. when they will start in their tried macRine for their home in Vermont.
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It is a mistaken notion that they have in Europe that the men who get up lynching parties are barbarians; they in- variably give their victim a chance to say his prayers.
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genuine cult" Bismarck's admission in the face of an antagonist. "He conquers" is remarkable
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Side Issues.

It is told that while the Pope was i'll that a number of Bordeaux pilgrims of- fered to sacrifice their lives for that of the pontiff. It is also said that Mgr. Don Marcello Massaranti scattered handfuls of silver about the streets of Rome, as a reward to those who should pick them up. in compliance with his request that they pray for the recovery of the Pope.
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Among the pretty incidents of the Pope's illness was his care for a favorite pigeon which came to his bedside every morning and which he had been in the habit of feeding. The bird is very tame and was evidently greatly attached to the pontif.
 A few days before the Pope's death the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-02

The Chicago Tribune published last Tuesday the picture of a globe which was bound with crape.
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Pope Leo's Work and Mission.

Pope Leo's work and MIssion.
 The Cincinnati Post says: We can not know just how much the world owes to Pope Leo. It is a secret. It is the un- written history of Europe. His death will bring about a dlspassionate estimate of Leo's mission and his work fin the world. There will be critical survey of both. That he was both great and good is gen orally acceded and will be-, But there is great part of the thinking world that considers all men fallible., So the Pope will not be different from sother men, in having the white light of criticism turned upon him.
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He is mourned wholly for himself in an age which, more than any other, makes every man a part of system the representative of a place"