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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-06

There" said the artist. If that man had been coming dow nthe steps of the Capitol in the old days of Rome, he would have been a senator!
 And this scene was the subject of the little sketch before me, and the inspra- tion of his beautiful picture. Power to see the patrician face in the plebian rags that is the gift of every true artist He must find his gold in the earth, his sap phires in its stones. Hogarth, the excep- ton to this rule, failed to see the ideal. the common entered into the composition of his pictures-and of his character.
 In there was in several religious papers notice made of the retirement of Dr. AL exander Maclaren from further speech as writer his exquisite rhetorical beau ty will still be known to us. One can- not fail to remember his phrases or sen- tences. We quote Zions Herald of Bos- ton. in illustrations:
 While the felicitous style betokens the work of master, the massage which is urged home in his utterances Is felt to be the chief thing. |" His adjec- tives are exact and revealing in their character. Thus he tells us that the wor- ship of self-righteous people is "punctili- ously proper and utterly dead;" he pie lures Peters acts as strangely compound ed of warm -heartd, impulsve love, and presumptuous self-confldence;" he sug- gests that were any other teacher or peo- pc to assume the attitude which Jesus of Nazareth did. "the world would meet the prepostrous claim with deserved and in- extinguishable laughter;' concerning the angel and the sepulcher of our Lord he says: Mote his growth, his attitude; his attire; the angelic life is vigorous pro- gressive, bouyant and alien from decAy. ''
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-06
AN INTERESTING TALK ON
 SPANISFI-AMERICA LITERATURE

After something like a century of inde-
 pendence of the Spanish Government
 there are symptoms that the Spanish
 speaking people of America are beginning
 to shake themselves free also from the domination of classical Spanish litera- ture. It may be that they may not soon develop a literature superior to that of Spain in It's golden age. No doubt the study of the Spanish classics and famil- iarity with them ought to to the founda- ton of such modern work as may be done in that language. In English we have not yet gone beyond the study of Shakespeare. and even of Bacon for the formation of correct style. But 1t would be hopeless task to undertake to meet the taste of this generation by putting forth new works which should adhere strictly to the Shakesperean forms. In one way or another, new life must ex- press itself in new language. The politi- cal and social life of many countries south of us has meen so unsteady and so deficient In continuity that it might ap- pear that there Is no new life there to be put on record. But this is a very su- perficial view. There are many human interests involved even in the turbulence and uneasiness of the governments of these countries. A recent writer from Venezuela defends the literature of his own and other Spanish-American coun- tries, and insists especially that what Is called creolism in that literature-that Is to say. the delineation of the life and manners and even dialect of the venezue- Ian born Spanish people-promises to de- velop an interest which justify 1t as a special and important as Spanish litera- ture. The well-wishers of the Spanish speaking countries will look with much upon the development of an indigious literature which is bold enough to confine itself to indigenous life and in the matter of form shake itself free of the conventionalities of the Span sh literature which belongs to a now dead
 age For it is not only true that iffe makes literature; literature helps to make life. That which the countries of Cen
 tral America and South America most
 stand in need of Is the development of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-06
And its wavering image here.
 -Longfellow
THE SOAP BOX GARDEN

There are gardens filled with flowers that are worth their weight in gold; There are gardens where the dainty
 blossoms bend. and nod and blow In such glorious profusion that you never
 need be told
 That good-sized fortune has been
 spent upon each brilliant row. Yet know a little garden that is better
 than them all- Hidden in the city. where life's cross
 has not a crown And the joy 1t brings its owner is thing
 that's good to see The little soap box garden here in town! In an unpretentious courtyard it is grow
 ing day by day A row of boxes filled with earth and
 placed against the wall And the white cords that lead up from
 them seem cheerily to say. To the struggling flowers, We are 'ere.
 climb up you cannot fall" There's a white faced little cripple who watches OCT the plants, And waters them, and sings to them,
 and pats the soft earth down, While his eyes glow with delight when each new leaf shows itself Tn his little soap box garden here in
 townl
 It boasts not priceless blossoms, such as
 those we often see Displayed in rich surroundings in the
 florists window gay; But those straggly little flowers are as
 dear as they can be To one who lives his life apart and
 plays with them all day. And though the buds he gathers may be
 small and overfrail. Each one. I'm sure. will straighten out
 the depest kind of frown. For the little cripple proudly picks and
 gives his flowers away From his soap box garden here in town!
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-06
THE PASSING OF BILL ARP, !,
 EIUMORIST AND PHIL LOSOPIIER

"Bill Arp Is dead! and as a conse- quence thousands of hearts are sad. True he was not a great literatuer-but his homely philosophy had won him a cosy place In many an unknown friends heart.
 His funeral, which occurred from the First Presbyterian Church of Cartersville was largely attended. Pursuant to the wish of the family, and in keeping with Major Smiths views and life. there was nothing of an ostentatious nature, but the funeral was a simple home affair. As a mark of respect and honor all the stores and institutions of the city were closed from 10 to 12 o'clock.
 . In the death of "Bin Arp' a golden link was broken between the old and new South. His passing reminds us that the one is glorious heritage of memory the other a splendid fulfilment of the prophecy of labor. He was of both.
 Charles HI. Smith, known only by his bluff pen-name wherever memory-loya1 trayed in life and writings all that has made his beloved Southland individual and picturesque. From the Uncfvil War to Date." to borrow the title of his last popular. his pen was busy with ideals of the past and idyls of the present. The ideals rang true to the noblest side of traditional, southernism. and the idyls were sweet with the simple homely pleas ures of unpreverted Southern life to- day. What his gentle pen delineated was not so much the patrician South as the homespun South. It was his labor of love to portray and extoll the joy of living in the ''cool, sequestered vale" He was the prophet of simplicity-the of the homefoiks.
 Perhaps Bill Arp was best known to the world through his regular letters to The Atlanta Constitution. a correspond ence covering more than a quarter of century. These letters were reflex, not alone of the rural South. but of the active. thinking. rehabilitated South-a delightful admixture of unaffected wit, droll humor sharp satire, common sense philosophy, reminiscent gossip and real istic description. The good gray Sage of Barlow" was of the old school, and. therefore, in the political sense an ire conciiable; but only with respect to the South's few dearest prejudices. He was not repiner. As much as he loved yes terday, he met the opportunities and obligations of today half way. with cheery heart and cleer eye. His counsel was wise and safe. His viewpoint of life and affairs was healthy. He was never reactionary.
 But more than aught else. "Bill Arp" was a humorist and will long be remem- bered in that role. He was 'Nasby" of the South. but without the Ohio war
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Italy in recognition of the value of the book.
 Andy Adams leaves Colorado Springs very shortly for his old home in Irluiana to receive the congratulations of his fam fly on the great success of his book, 'The Log of Cowboy" He win spend two months this summer hunting in Idaho.
 It is safe to say that all persona who have read the recent autobiography of Charles Eliot. Landscape Architect" viii be keenly interested in the proisctod bridge and path dedicated to his memory, to encircle the summit of Great Blue Hill near Boston.
 MT. E. F. Harkins in "The schernsrs," Is novel tale of Boston. calls the atte,,. ton Of his readers to a phase of life fi our large cities of more than passing lN, terest. .a.-,i
 The. conditions of life surrouna,ne. the young women employees of our great de. partment stores are set forth clearly, but without suggestive exaEgeration; while certain types of college men are alse drawn with vigorous accuracy. t,
 An amusing Scotch divine has emerged In Glasgow with a book of trauslattops from the Persian of Jellaleddin, which he proposes to substitute for Omar Khayyatii as he appears in the English of FitnEer. aid, that dram drinking, drivelins, dron. ing dotard." as he elegantly terms hin, having. to the amazement of Persian scholars. infatuated the young. free Eng- fish mind with rude wit and shallow re- hection." Jellaleddin may be the soberest and most virtuous of Persians for all we know-we confess to knowledge of his name. and are little shaky on that: but one thing is certain and that is until he finds another FitzGerald to immortaIie him in English verse he will knock in vain at the door of the English speaking peoples. And in the mean time notice that the Omar Khayyam Club goes on with it's meetings and dinners and secures the presence and a sympathetic flow of amounts to much in English literature.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-06
Pointed Tips From A Critics Culver.

Anna Chapin Ray. author. of 'The Dom- inant Strain.' is best known as the writer of the Teddy stories for older girls. Miss Ray is of the seventh generation of an old Massachusetts family.
 Marie of the Lower Ranch" Is likely to excite more than passing notice. It Is called Love Stories from Real Life" written by Mildred Champagne the young Boston journalist. It is a collection of love stories taken from different planes of society. all of which have at some time come under the authors observation Some anxiety has been felt concerning the safety of Miss Champagne as she was in Jamaica during the recent hurricane Miss Champagne recently went to Jamaica for months visie to collect material for a series of articles on that country ordered by prominent Boston paper. She reach- ed, there only two days before the hurri- cane.
 Defending the Bank" Is a wholesome but exciting detective story for children, in which two boys and a girl are able to run down two bank robbers and thus save the bank of which the boys father Is president. This book though far from the dime novel variety affords much more than the average amount of excitement aud interest.
 Hon. John D. Long, former Secretary of the Navy, will have considerable to say about government secret service in war times in his book "The New American Navy" soon to be brought out by The Outlook Co.
 "A Partnership in Magic Is a juvenile story of unique tyre written by Charles Battell Loomis, the well known humor- ist. While 1t is based on a magical hy- pothesis. the setting is very realistic, and aside from the fairy tale motive there is no exaggeration whatever. The story tells of a country boy, who was miraculously endowed with the gift of picking oranges from any tree and tells of his strange ad- ventures in New York where he ultimate ly made a small fortune.
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humorists' bitterness. During the war he, reflected the ideas of his section with an appeal to the disabilities of his com- patriots that won him a wide reading in perflous camp and at desolate heartstone. His humor was of the quaint uncon- scious sort, and it found the week spots of whoever or whatever he assailed. He could pierce coat of mail with laugh. After the surrender he reconciled the South with laugh, too. He accepted the inevitable with a dfoll humor, not
 unmixed with pathos, calculated to make
 war-worn, impoverished 'rebels'' take a
 fresh grip on life with ' the courage of
 hope in their hearts. Always an opti-
 mist the post-bellum gloom could with
 stand the radiance of his smile. It Reconstructed" the secession States. s Aside from his newspaper contributions. Bill Arp was the author of a nuuber of books embracing bis most characteris-
 tic work among them a. history of Georgia. Not a little of his fame was acquired on the lecture platform. where his genial humor and his rough and ready wisdom attracted host of auditors. Ills mind was versatile and well-rooted edu- cationally. Next to the book of nature he loved the tonnes of the great in litera- ture. His writings were full of classical allusions and illustrations, but never pedantically interjected. He knew his Petrach and his Plato as he knew his Bible. The mythology and history of an tiqulty was familiar to him. He was 8 student and a scholar-self-taught, but nevertheless, a scholar. The gentle graces of his pen were those of the man. He lived and felt what he wrote. With drawn in large degree from the sordid. material aspects of the world. he dwelt with his books, his garden, childhood and flowers. Nature he loved passionateIy, but none the less his fellowmen. To his neighbors he was not the distracted, self centered recluse. but a lovable clever neighbor Nothing was too small or commonplace to enlist his interest and sympathy. His was the universal heart
 We shall miss Bill Arp" in the South We Southerners. all love him as we love the "old home place'-for did he not write from the soul of him about asso- citations. memories and loves dear to the inmost heart of us? The ages ambitions may drive us away from the quiet, shady paths. but our secret ideal of content- ment, plentitude and clear conscience Is there. We love him because he him. self has held fast to that ideal and warmed 1t in our breasts.
 The great heart of the South and Geor- gia goes out to those near and dear to the gentle dead by ties of blood. Their bereavement is indeed but we share it. The shadow Is not alone over that typical old Southern. home, 'The Shadows" It rests over Dixieland.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-06

In Charles Morris the Worlds Great Orators" every truly great oration or speech. Is given with the life of the speaker, and full notice of the occasion and time of the speech and the audience. Thus the reader with the complete scenes before him enjoys the most inspiring hours of all time. The result is a col lection which cannot be improved upon, a book that is a necessity.
 Louisa M. Alcott's Flight Cousins" has been dramatized and the first presenta- tion recently took place in the Children's Theatre, Boston, for the benefit of the Dorothy Dix summer home. Plays had previously been adapted from Mills AL cott's Little Men" and Little Women"
 Probably the latest use of an ecclesias- tical figure is in Meredith Nicholson's '"The Main Chance" Bishop Delafield, while one of the minor figures is most at tractively portrayed. He will be readily identified by Episcopalians as a distin- guished Western Bishop. who still pre- sides over an important diocese.
 The Bureau of Equipment of the Navy Department has added to the list of books for the selection of crews libra ries in thesUnited States Navy George S. Wassons collection of New England salt water sketches entitled '.Capn Simeon's Store"
 Thomas Bailey Aldrich is at Saranac in the Adlrondacs. His forthcoming book "Ponkapog Papers" Is to contain among other essays. a biographical and critical study of Robert Herrick. the Man and the Poet.
 One of the most elaborate and vivid &C., counts to be found in English of the Election of Pope-Pius IX-is contained in William R. Thayer's book on the Dawn of Italian Independence" It will be remembered that Mir. Thayer WAS re- gently given decoration by the King of
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explanation of this is afforded hy the fact that alcohol will dissolve three times as much carbonic acid gas as water will dis solve Alcohol would thus convey more gas to the stomach and carbonic acid gas in soution admittedly promotes the chem=. ical processes of digestion and acts as a, sedative in the stomach. Champagne Is well known to be useful in sickness in allaying irritability of the stomach by virtue of the carbonic acid gas it con- tainss
 Apart therefore, from the pleasing. sparkling qualities of aerated water and its sharp, agreeable taste. there would appear to be a sound physiological reason why whiskey with soda water is preferred by the many to wlhisksy with plain water.
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 national life.
 Books and Periodicals.
 In his usual pungent fashion. Mir. An-' drew Lang makes a sharp attack upon the popular delusion in these modern days. i've have no time to read books" He alleges that our time is consumed largely to no purpose by forms of mem tai dissipation, which are, after alls close- ly connected. One is our dissatisfaction if we are not constantly in contact with other people-the exaggerated gregarious- ness of the human animal in this century. The other IS that we waste what time we might give to reading in the perusal of current periodicals. The over-weaning desire to know everything that Is going on in the world, no matter whether 1t is of importance and interest to us or not, keeps our eyes fastened to the pages of the papers. daily, weekly and monthly. and our minds confused in a vast mass of sensually superfluous and largely stupid details, so that in very truth we have no time to give to the great books of the world. It seems an ungracious thing for one who is engaged in the labor of pro- ducing a newspaper to say that he has strong suspiicon that this indictment ts weli-founded. We have ourseles not sel- dom been in despair because, week by WCCh, W6 nae tO LHEu6l dSluc SOAtc SI c4S book. which eyes us reproachfully from beneath of constantly falling withered leaves of periodicals. no sooner cleared away one day than it immediately repro ducers itself the next. A desire to know somewhat of the worlds affairs is praise worthy enough; but there are many of the worlds affairs each day that, for rea- sons sufficient to the publishers. get space In our daily and weekly papers which are really no concern of ours. It is only a form of gossip after all, to be so curi- ous about our neighbors' doings We are likely to meet in the great books people that are wittier and more attractive. as well as more instructive as those we read about in the morning or afternoon paper. And so we can but come to the conclu- sion that less reading of the light litera- ture of the day and more reading of good books Is certainly advisable if not call of an imperative nature
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by. plunging in front. of a trolley car. The motorman succeeded in stopping the car very quickly and. besides, the fender did its work admirably.
 Hegstrom then climbed upon the front platform and attacked the motorman. The conductor and six passengers joined in trying to hold the ma adman down. He fought furiously. Two policemen and four civilians had to ride with him in the hospital ambulance to restrain him.
 At the hospital Hegstrom's case was diagnosed as acute mania, and light was thrown on it by his father, who came to the institution and told the story of his cigarette smoking
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A London Obituary Napoleon.

When the great Napoleon died there were doubtless among the readers of The London Globe many persons who would have liked to read full account of his fife. but. If so. they were disappointed. for The Globe in its issue of July 4, 1S21, contained only the following brief notice;
 Death of Bonaparte.-We announce the death of Bonaparte. The official an- nouncement was received this morning at the admiralty His death took place on May 5. His health had been declining for a long time. and the cause of death was a cancer In the stomach. He was born in 1769 The cost of maintenance at St. Helena was each year between 100000 and 30O.OO0 pounds
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In Poetic Realms of
 Fact and Fancy
THE PILGRIMS PRAYER.

I'm weary, God! in pity call me home! When I look back upon the stretch of
 years, Ger which so falteringly have passed, My heart breaks. Hast Thou pity for
 our tears,
 roam? My soul, oppressed, seeks now to rest
 with Thee Where all my friends in deep felicity Abide secure None have 1 here. Alone I've gone with all the grief and misery. Speak. Father. Say that I may now come
 home My trembling hand holds out to Thee. the Which I had won ere breathless from the fell. In all Heaven hast thou not a For one more weary, world worn. bruised
 child. Who swiftly ran, that a soul undefiled Could greet Thee and receive Thy heal
 ing balm! I listen God! Is 1t Thy voice hear Which falls so sweetly on my uttered ear, Wellingh deafened by the fiendish clamor Of the insensate mob which hears Thee
 not? Is it Thy voice from Heavens vaulted
 dome? Thy voice which gently bids the pilgrim
 "come?' Thy voice which softly calls one tried wait Q. God!-one moment--I faint-1
 Emily Grant Won Tetzel.
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The Bishops Pass.

London Daily News
 In this country free railway passes are not often met with; and certainly the one owned by the venerable Bishop Of Gloucester is unique. It is of gold, in the first place, and extends from end to end of the Great Eastern Railway, in the second place. According to the story told by the Rev. J. A. L. Airey, 1t forms a souvenir of the kindly ministrations by the Bishop to the sufferers by railway which occurred on the system many years ago.
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MISS TRAUMERI.

By Albert Morris Bagby.
 pleasant love story set in the Weimer of Litz's last days. The msuical atmos- phere is successfully conveyed to the reader. It is that of a hot-house. The moist adulation which was the very breath of the dear master" becomes somewhat suffocating at times; but that Is not the fault of the book. There Is plenty of opportunity of breathing drler air in the course of the book. The char acters are interesting, fairly distinct, wholesome and human. The readers in- terest Is carried leisurely along. The book is better than most musical novels. GA M. Bagly IS W. Thirty-fourth Street, New Yorh)
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colloquial language of the region. The stories are well told, some of them ex- citing, and with a tone of pathos running through them all. The atmosphere Is distinctly Southern, of course, and he who reads will not only have an interest ing hour. but will have an opportunity for studying Southern ways and characters. Henry T. Coates & Co.,. Philadelphia.
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FOUR HUNDRED PER DAY.

Not Dollars, But Cigarettes for
 Charlie Hegstrom. .. New York American.
 Four hundred a day was the average number of cigarettes that Charles Heg- strom, H years old, of No. 36 Vanderveer Street. New York, smoked. according to his father. He has been known to smoke as many as forty cigarettes in an hour. The youth went insane at his home yes terday and. rushing into the street, made
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ANDY BARR. Rv willta R wkina-

This story dealt with the lives of two boys up to the time when they fight for their country in the oivil war and woo and win their sweethearts It has plenty of action, and the highly enjoyable and original figure of Uncle Andy alone makes the book a remarkable one. The scene is laid In a small town, and @ fas- cinating flavor of the military runs through the story. The quaint sayings of Andy will be relished by every reader. while the plot, leading up to the revela- tion. of the hidden history of this wise old cobbler. will closely hold the atten- ton. Uothrop Pub. Co.,, Boston,.