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Evening journal., 1903-06-10
General James III. Wilson
Gives Wilmington Mill
tary Academy Cadets
Advice About Study
and Work
Closing Exercises Marked
by the Awarding of
Prizes to Those Who
ExceIIed in Their
Studies

This mornings exercises at the Will
mlngton Military Academy marked the
close Of the commencement season and the
end Of one Of the most prosperous and sue
cessful years the institution has ever en-
joyed.
Wyckoff Hall. where the exercises were
held was beautifully decorated with red
and gray the school colors and potted
plants. Upon the stage were Bishop Cole
man. General James II. Wilson, W. H.
Morrison and Thomas Blackford. The
auditorium was well filed with relatives
and friends of the scholars, although the
heavy rain storm kept many away.
The exercises opened with a prayer by
the Rev. T. A. McCurdy. pastor Of Cen
tral Presbyterian Church. Bishop Cole
man, president of the board of trustees of
the school made an address in which he
complimented both scholars and teachers
upon the successful year and expressed
hope that the relations would ever be as
pleasant as in the past.
Prizes Awarded.
The awarding Of prizes was next taken
up and the following were successful:
Scholarship prize, Edgar NJ. Hopes, Jr.
drill prize, for a gold medal was decided
a tie between Kennett NJ. Foote, Of Cleve-
land Ohio, and Merrill Troupe, of Balti-
more. 1he Morrison prizes in oratory, $50
in gold, Howard Fahey; SIS in gold. Man
ming Brown. New York City; SO in gold,
Howard AIilhgan, st. Georges, Del.
Bishop Coleman's Latin prize, so in gold,
Henry Grubb; junior drill prize, silver
medal, Thomas Stone, Philadelphia. Hon
orable mention was made of Robert FL
lott, Fairville, Pa; the L. A. Waite prizes
in mathematics by Z. G. Wyckoff, OF
Ithaca, n. Y, consisting of 500 in gold
was distributed between Howard Vernon
$50; William Bird, $50; and a tie between
Howard Mnligan and Manning Brown, re-
suited in dividing $50. The George A. Ell
lott composition prize a gold medal, fol-
dhe primary and intermediate schools, MAJ
Groedel New York city; junior declama-
ton prize, William S. Morrison, Penns-
grove; Pen and Ink prizes donated by Miss
Roberta Black gold medal and books, Ellis
Hannum, West Chester, and Robert Steir
Baltimore; neatness and order prize in the
junior dormitory, Manning Brown, New
York city, least number of demerits, first
half, Frank Suley, Altoona, Pa; second
half. Charles Gibson, Crisfield. Nd.
Forrest Emmons. the graduate, was
awarded his diploma and the audience was
dismissed after a benedichon by the Rev
McCurdy.
The out Of town student left Immediately
after the exercises and by o'clock tn,
dormitories that have rung out with tn,
shouts Of the youngsters Of the past mint
months were deserted and the school set
tied down to its lethargie summer vaca,
ton.
Evening journal., 1903-06-10

CONTINUED on Third Page.)
Evening journal., 1903-06-10
Our Creed

To publish all he news that
oughtto be published; to put
1t into attractive form; to
discu 8 fearlessly what
ought to be discussed, and
to disseminate wholesome
Views of life.
Evening journal., 1903-06-10
The Weather

Today; Partly cloudy to fair.
light winds, probably rain. To-
morrow Partly cloudy. cooler
fresh winds.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-24
A ROMANCE OF GENEVA.
A Story of Love, War and WitChCTaft.

1.-THE LONG NIGHT" by Stanley
]. Weyman, is a story Of life
in Geneva I'm the time of re-
lIgious wars on the Continent,
when the massacre Of Saint Bartholo-
NEW was still fresh in the minds of men
and Geneva was the headquarters Of her
sey and In constant deadly danger from
Savoy. The heroine Is Anne Royaume.
a Genevese girl, whose Supplemented
loyalty to her half-insane mother causes
her TO come under suspicion of witch
craft. The hero, Claude MERCER. is a
penniless student, who lodges in the
house. Another lOdger is the alchemist
Caesar Bastirga. an Italian and most
unpleasant villain. The atmosphere OF
mystery is well preserved and envelops
the relations OF these characters until
the plot is well developed. 1t is a good
adventure novel.
From an artistic point of view. per-
haps. the best element of the book is
its realism. II IS not one of those his
torical novels which might have hap
pened anywhere.
1t IS permeated with the Geneva at
mosphere. Every scene tells. Every cpl
sode is instinct with life, and makes it's
impression on the memory. The brawl
In the inn called the Bible in Hand.
the girls torture of herself for the pur-
pose Of testing the nerves OF the new
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Twenty-third Street between Fifth and
Sixth Avenues. and wake you up 10 the
fact that you have got country. only
you would think you were dreaming;
and il is a dream.
The Drama of the Streets.
What inpresses me most is the gratis
exhibition that goes on all the time.
the continuous performance of the
streets that you could not get for money
anywhere else. and that here is free 10
the poorest. In fact. il is for the poor.
There IS one window on Fourteenth
Street. where the sidewalk Is a solid
mass Of humanity from morning till
night. entranced by the fairy scene in
side. and most Of the spectators look as
IL they had not been TO breakfast or
dinner. and were not going to supper
But they are enraptured. and that is
the great secret of New York; she takes
YOU out of yourself, she annihtlates
you and disperses you. and you might
starve to death here without feeling
hungry, for your mind wouldn't be on
II"
The intoxication Of a great city has
here found fine expression.
A HoweIls Love Story.
As for the love story. It deals with
one of Mr. Howells' favorite situations
that of the well-meaning young man,
who has managed to entangle himself
with two girls. Such a situation Is
probably commoner in real life than IT
is In fiction. and perhaps IL is as well
that one novelist should give some time
to impressing upon young women the
wisdom of treating IL In common sense
fashion. instead Of according to what
"E. Nesbit" calls the literary sense.
Certainly no good can come of a man
marrying one girl while he is ~ love
with another, though man may seem
70 DO IL when he Is IN reality doing no
such a thing. At any rate, yo iDR Ar
dith makes no such unnatural mistake.
and ~ he had wanted to, we are sure
that the expansive and redundant Amer
ica RalstOn would not have let him.
Some Typical People.
America is a lively heroine. As an
EngIishman might say. she rather
bounced: but she was kind-hearted
Mr.. BInning. the Bostonian, is deli
cious: so in a chastened way is Miss
Dennam It is a book sure TO be amuse-
ing to those who Ike Howells- CNew
York. Harper d Brothers.)
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the open country-cast its solemn mantle
about the party
A Very Real Faith.
Such was the pious usage observed
in that age at the opening and closing
OF the gates OF Geneva: nor had Il
yet sunk to form. The nearness
OF the frontier and the shadow OF those
Clutching arms ever extended TO
smother the free state. gave reality 20
the faith of those who opened and shut
and with arms in their hands looked
back on ter years OF constant warfare.
Many A night during those ten years
mad Geneva gazed from her watch-tow-
ers on burning farms and smoid-
ering homesteads: many a day seen
the smoke OF Chablais hsmlets float
ing a dark trail across her lake. What
wonder it, when none knew khat
night might bring forth. and the fury
of Antwerp was still a new tale In men
ears. the Genevese held Providence high
er and His workings more near than
men are prone to hold them in happier
times"
Terror-vague. brooding terror-hangs
over the people in this romance. but
IL Is too interesting to be altogether
gloomy. In spite Of the plethora Of his
torical novels, a really good love story
Is always welcome. and this is one.
(New York: Mcclure. Phillips & Coz
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A Well-Known Poem.

ledger. the interview between Bastirga
and the Syndic Blondel. whom ne is try
ing TO secure as his tool; the attack OF
the city by the Savoyards. the accusa-
ton OF witchcraft brought against the
girl-all these points in the story stand
out as clearly as fine etchings. IL Is
a good piece of work.
A Good Opening.
Even the scene at the closing of the
gate. with which the story begins. IS
not slouched in the drawing The read
er is taken at once into the life OF the
time. Reaching the gate Just in time
10 avoid being shut out the student
attempts to thank the servent in charge.
but is cut short by a gesture. Turn
ing 20 a second citizen. tailor. he be-
gins again 10 speak.
But the tailor also cut him short
frowning and laying HIS finger to his
lips and pointing mysteriousiy to the
ground. The stranger stopped to look
more closely. but saw nothing. and it
was only when the others dropped on
their knees that ne understood the hint
and fastened TO follow the example
The soldiers bent their heads while the
sergeant recited a prayer for the safe
~ OF the city. He did this reverently.
while the evening light. which fell gray
between walls and sobered those who
had that moment left the open sky. and
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And this:
MEMORY.
There are Just two kinds Of remem-
Der:
You either remember clear as glass
me way John does in arithmetic class
or else you sort Of remember.
The way | do from my history book,
Inc way that dim reflections look
In the shiny black plano legs.
or the shaky water of the brook:
mat now l sort Of remember"
And this:
THE BACKWARDS ROAD.
l Know that somewhere there must be
a backwards Road
A road like this.
Leading TO all old lovely times.
Plcnics last year, forgotten rhymes.
And dolls used TO kiss.
But every road beneath my feet
Leads farther of
From yesterday;
Ana when i creep into my bed
reel IL rock beneath my head
Like ships upon their way.
IF / could only find that road.
The backwards Road.
How quick I'd walk
And change the naughty things I've
done,
PICK up my playthings one by one,
And hear the baby talk.
The press introduction is not the least
attractive part OF the book In IT n
honeymoon drive OF the father and
mother OF the Kings and Queens Is
described In whimsical detail. Here is
an episode:
Daniel, the little boy with whom we
had nearly acquaintance, volunteered
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-24
NEW BOOKS RECEIVED.

MAXIMs or THEODORE ROOSEVELT. chi
cago; The Madison Book Company.
THE BEING WITH THE UPTURNED FACE.
Clarence LAthbury. New York: Funk &
THE WINGS OF THE MORNING. Louis Tracy.
New York: Edward J. ClOdc.
HIS LITTLE WORLD Samuel Marvin New
York. A. 5. Barnes & Co.
PORTAGE PATHS. Archer Butler Hubert.
Cleveland: The Arthur II. Clark Company.
ANTHONY WAYNE. John r. Spears. New
York: d. Appleton & Co
THE ADVENTURES OF AN ARMY NURSE.
Mary Pinney, Baroness Won Oenhausen. Ed
tied By james Pinney Monroe: Boston: Lit
tie, Brown & Co.
A LIBERAL EDUCATION AND a LIBERAL
FAITH. Charles r. ThwinR. New York;
The Baker & Taylor Co.
ADMIRAL PORTER. James Russell Solely. New
York: d. Appleton %.
FLoDDEN FIELD. Alfred Austin. New York:
TIE HISTORY OF THE GERMAN STRUGGLE
FOR LIBERTY. Poultney BIgelow. New
York: Harper Bros
THE NEW THOUGHT SIMPLIFTED. Henry
Wood. Boston: Lee & Shepard
JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRACY. New York:
The Jeffersonisn Society.
THE YOUNG WOMAN IN MODERN LIFE. Bev-
erley Warner, d. d. New York: Dodd.
SKETCHES AND TRAVELS W. N. Thackeray.
Edited BY Walter JeHold London: }. NJ
Dent Co.
CATHERINE. W. " Thackeray. Edited by
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THE CHARM OF CELTIC POETRY.
Tupified in Another Book of FancifuI Irish Verse

she could have called over the rim oi
the world
whatever woman's love had hit hei
And Yet had been great bodied and
strong limbed.
Fashioned TO be the mother OF strong
And she'd had lucky eyes and high
And wisdom that caught fire like the
dried fax
At need and made her beautiful and
fierce,
Sudden and laughing
This is "A woman 10 brave supernatural
beings at midnight-as she did.
Another woman Of the old heroic Irish
race lives in this wild lyric.
THE SONG OF RED HANRAHAN.
The old brown thorn trees break in
two high over Cummen strand
Under a bitter. black wind that blows
from the left hand.
Our courage breaks like an old tree IN
a black wind and dies:
But We have hidden in our hearts the
fame out Of the eyes
or Cathleen, the daughter OF Houlihan-
THE wind has bundled up the clouds
high over KnOcknarea
And thrown the thunder on the stones
for all that Maeye can say
Anglers that are ike noisy clouds have
set our hearts abeat.
But we have all bent low and kissed the
OF Csthieen, the daughter Of HouIihan-
The yellow pool has overlooked high
up on CloOth-ua-Ea Fare.
For the vet winds are bowling out OF
the Ciinging air.
Like heavy hooded waters our bodies
and our blood,
But purer than a tail candle before
the Holy Rood
Is CathIeen. the daughter Of HOulihan-
These few extracts will show the tone
and temper Of the book New York.
The Macmillan Company
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TO guide Us 70 the Look-OG When we
reached that dizzy pinnacle he told US
how, one snowy day. as he stole through
the underbrush, he came upon a rab-
bit sitting on the ledge that is as
sill TO the forest window whence one
looks off from the wooded top of Mount
Hemlock
There he set. just as nice as a per-
son. looking off from the Look-On
Place. said Daniel, with the awed and
do you s'pose he was ADDING Off "
OF the frealish bits OF nonsense this
Is fair example,:
PROVOKING BELINDA.
Suppose IT were as dark as pitch.
And you were by a dreadful sea-
And II you ran you would fall in.
And IL you stopped there was a witch
Hungry for you,
What would you do?'
" I'D rather stay at home. said Belinda.
And sleep all night in PEG.
g But please suppose that you were
And that there was no home nor bed
And If you ran you would fall in.
And if you stopped she'd catch your
And crunch at you.
What would you dor
" I'd rather stay at home said Belinda,
And sleep all night in bed.
The illustrations are by Ethel Frank
lin Belts, and the quaint serious faces
of Beulah. Belinda. John, and David
are charming in their sailor suits and
starched frOcks. Beulah and David are
twins. (New York: McClure-Phillips
Company
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-24
The Real Kentucky Mountaineer.

Joseph S. Malone. whose story of the
feud lighters. The Sons of Vengeance, 80
has Just been published by Revells, says
that some OF the worst fights that came
TO his knowledge occurred when the OPP
posing factions met at church. Any
one expecting to find a typical fighter
breathing fire and thirsting for blood
VIII be sorely disappointed TO find him
a deacon In hardshell Baptist Church
and much more inclined to long prayers
and endless theological arguments than
threatenings and boasts we never
quarrel, we fight" Is a very good de-
scription OF the mountain character on
one side
No doubt the regiment OF thirteen war
riors OF the Salvation Army thought
they were imperiling their lives by their
campaign In Brethitt county. They were
probably never safer nor less liable to
insult They are likely TO meet heather
as well versed Ia the Scriptures as
themselves, and better fortified with
proof texts for some favorits doctrinal
position
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AN INTERESTING AUTOBIOGRAPHY

choose would be to live in the hearts
and memories OF mothers and boys"
Mr.. Trowbridge comes of that sturdy
West country blood which has furnished
the New World with much of its best
stock; but the Trowbridges OF Somcr-
set and Devon early migrated 20 Ameri-
ca. and have been on the soil for over
two hundred and fifty years. From
Massachusetts. his fathers family came
to central New York. and Windsor
Stone Trowbridgc presently pushed
West into the CSeneseo country, settling
near Rochester in midminter. in the
midst OF dense woods. where a log hut
was built. The author says:
Early Recollections.
The puncheon floor was Of split chest
nut logs. the sleigh boards serving as
the floor OF the loft Not nall was
used in the construction; nails were eX-
pensive; wooden pegs took their place.
No stones could be gathered on account
Of the deep snow. and my mothers ket-
ties would sink down into the soft
ground which formed the hearth. The
snow stayed until April. When II wHs
gone. and she went out and found some
good nice stones to set her kettles on
in the fireplace. she felt rich as she
used smilingly to tell us children II
later years
A larger log house soon replaced this
primitive structure. and i'm 1t all the
nine children were born. except the first
and the last. the author being the
eighth. He was born in September. 1877
after his parents had spent fifteen years
in their pioneer home. His autobiog-
raphy was published on the seventy
sixth anniversary of his birth.
Grew Up With the Country.
II will thus be seen that during his
boyhood he had an opportunity OF
watching the rapid growth Of a pioneer
settlement and the building up of a
new country. The canal. which figures
i'm so many of his early books was a
familiar feature of the landscape, and
I'm the autumn he peddled nuts and ap-
Piles to the passengers on the boats
His was the typical country boys life
with the dreaming of larger opportuni-
ties and great deds, not uncommon
among boys everywhere Getting an cd
ucation OF sorts, by hook and by crook
he landed in New York. expecting to
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THE MODERN SPEECH NEW TESTAMENT
Richard Francis Weymouth. New York:
The Baker Taylor Go.
THE BEST AMERICAN ORAT1oNs OF To-
DAY Edited by Harriet Blackstone. New
York: Kinds & Noble
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TIE KSOCKER. Frank G. Y0orhies Boston:
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THE STORIES OF PETER AND ELLEN Ger
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SALLY. MRS. TUBBs. Margaret sidney.
Boston: Lothrop Publishing %.
HAWTHORNE AND HIS CIRCLE OF FRIENDS
Julian Hawthorne. New York: Harper q
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NE GLlDDEN IN MAINE A. ID. AoFaul-
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LOVE, THE FIDDLER. Lloyd Osbourne. New
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TWO PRISONERS. Thomas Nelson Page. New
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LAURA BRIDGMAN: DIR. HOWE's FAMOUS
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Louis BeCke, Vouager and Novelist.

a new novel by Louis Becke has Just
been issued which bears title Helen
Adair Mr. Becke is an Australian
journalist, and is widely known for
his realistic and vigorous stories of life
In the South Sea, the most familiar OF
which are The Strange Adventure of
James Shervinton,' The Tapu of Ban
derah. 'Yorke, the Adventurer" and
"Breachley-Blac sheep" Mr. BccAe
probably knows more about the South
Sea than any man living. He began
his adventurous life at fourteen years
or age, when he went TO sea. He spent
nearly twenty years among the south
ern islands. during which time he ex-
perienced many changes OF fortune one
day being comparatively wealthy, the
next day so hard up" that he had TO
beat his way. In Sydney, Australia, he
was I'm such reduced circumstances that
he was obliged 20 clear Drush-wood in
order TO obtain living. IL was about
that time that lac met the editor Of q
local paper and WAS induced by him to
write out some or the incidents OF his
life ia the form OF stories.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-10-24

- INCE the name of w. =. Yeats
became known to the reading
world. lovers OF poetry have been
aware Of a presence distinctly
original in the throng Of laster-day
poets: poet who initiated nobody. Dor
rowed from nobody was Influenced by
nobody; an Irish poet whose work
may be said 10 be autochthanous.
and who obeys the simple inspiration of
his time and place. His. latest book,
called In the Seven woods: Being
Poems Chiefly OF the Irish Heroic Age.
confirms the impressions made by his
first
The magic and the beauty of these
poems is untransferrable TO prose. and
their delicate charm VIII not be felt BY
every body II Is difficult 20 explain in
just what this charm consists. II may
be I'm the wild freedom OF the thought.
in the exquisite rightness of the choice
Of words, or in the flashes OF insight
into human nature; but II is certainly
rake the lines at the very beginning
OF the book. and try TO analyze them;
IL cannot be done
4 have heard the pigeons Of the Seven
Make their faint thunder. and the gar
den bees
Hum in the ume-tree flowers; and put
away
The unavailing outcries and the Old Bit
terness that empty the heart
The Seven Woods belong 10 that
magical world which COleridge entered
IN writing "Kubla Khan" and Keats. in
telling OF the nightingale; indeed, these
two mystical poets spent much time
thehe IL may have ben known 10 ThOm-
as of Ercildoune- William Blake may
nave stroIled there: and IL is certainly
part OF the RAIN OF the Brushwood Boy.
Here lived the Queen Maeve, and
Yeats thus writes OF her;