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lott Flower in the Critic

Elll0tt F1OWer, IN the Crltlc.
AS matter of fact, no one can tell what
will be acceptable to a certain editor and
imposter. L have disposed of manuscripts
where 1 least expected, and 1 have failed
TO sell where L thought it was a certainty.
Furthermore, 1 have discovered that ed
itors themselves, who presumably keep
careful watch of what other editors are
doing, know no more about it than l do.
L have had manuscripts returned to me
with the kindly suggestion that l submit
Ii to Such-and-such periodical, Ito which
it seems especially suited" but have yet
to dispose of an article by following this
tesy that prompts il, but the editors in
variably have guessed wrong in these in
stances. The only thing to do is TO use ones
best judgment and keep the article going.
II 1T is reasonably good-or even only fair
1t is practically a sure thing that some
editor wants ii, the problem being to find
out which one. and that can be done only
by experimenting. i do not mean to say
that manuscript should be sent out hap
hazard to any one. Judgment and expert
ence are of value. but their value is dis
tresSingly uncertain, and even the most ex-
perienced err with great frequency. When
1 first started in friend whose literary
work had made him independent, undertook
that he guessed wrong about as often as
l did. He had acquired a reputation that
helped him to dispose of his manuscripts
and there is no gainsaying that reputa-
ton is a wonderful help-but mine had to
go solely on their merits.
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College Amusements.

John Bascom in the June Atlantic.
The amusements Of college life have uns
dergone change akin 10 the division OF in-
tellectual interests. They have become pro-
Gus or theater; something TO be seen rather
than to be shared, something labored for on
the one side and paid for on the other.
Crowded life, the life of Cities which Is at
professional amusements- They call for no
participation In the spectators, and no social
sympathy between them. Those idly waiting
to be amused become ever more critical and
exacting. less resourceful In themselves ard
more dependent on others. They must be
ingly difficult one. The commands of the
amphitheater lay as an absolute law on
those whose lives were held cheap in minis
tering to popular pleasure. A scrub game or
ball, no matter how recreative to the par
Elephants, gives no satisfaction as a spec
tacle. Football demands severe training. a
sacrifice of every competing purpose, and
incurs serious risk, simply that those who
play may give sufficient excitement TO those
who do not play
Young men have only about so much en-
fhusiasm to spend, and IL il is squandered
In amusement, IL is necessarily lost 70 pro-
ductive labor. Enthusiasm ought 10 run In
the channels of their own lives, and so buoy
up and bear forward their own achieve
ments. like well-freighteds vessels. IL this
enthusiasm makes its claims on others; IL
leaves those who generate II, ike the Ro-
man youth who crowded the coliseum, an
ignoble band. Professional amusements
mean the breaking up OF free, personal.
communal effort. and putting In It's place
the strained efforts and strong passions
which sway men backward and forward as
mobs. The passion for sport which prevails
in our universities is 10 be explained. In
part. as an effort TO regain that unity which
has been lost in the dispersion Of academic
work.
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Philadelphia Press.
A scholarly article in the Independence
Beige, of Brussels, calls attention, with
necessary brevity but considerable sugges-
tive force, to the youngest literature in the
whole Of Europe-the literature of the Fin
nish language. Although already an ac-
complished fact, this literature is of so
modern a formation as to be, even on it's
native soil, something of novelty, and the
description of it's making thus presents a
rarely observable spectacle.
A legacy-as was the case with that of
the Hungarians-from wandering Asiatic
tribes, the soft and complicated Finnish
language was, for hundreds of years, con-
fined to the peasantry. This" said the de-
scendants of the Scandinavian conquerors,
the Finnish bourgeoisie of the present day.
this is but a jargon fit for the Kitchen
and they accordingly held so fast by the
tongue of their sires that in all those gen.
erations the language of the Swedes was
the only literary vehicle that the Firms
possessed.
But change came with Louwist. He.
with interchangeable labor and painstaking
exactitude, codified and analysed the de-
spised tongue, and then, so to speak, gave
IL the band of responsibility by wedding 1T
to a true poem in his arrangement of the
famous "kaleralo.' This proved the neces-
sary impetus. Other scholars gave form TO
national oral traditions, popular songs and
folklore, and the Finnish-Ougrienne So
ciety carried on the scientific work, while
the creative spirit began to find its first eX-
preston in the awkward but naive efforts
of such writers as the plowman Paivarinta.
Then the younger generation caught some
thing of the flame from the French altar,
and the result is that to-day, in such writ
ers as Juhani Ohio, there is 1ourishing in
Finland, side by side with Swedish one, a
native literature which exhibits virilty,
style, a sense of proportion and a feeling
observation that promise infinitely for the
future.
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English Phrase Good Enough.

Boston Letter In New York Times.
Certain wrathful correspondents desire
to know why employing the three words
nom de plume, as IL they constituted q
French phrase and substituting the three for
the English ''pseudonym." indicate that the
writer knows no French and not much Eng
lish. The final authority in French. the Die
tionary of the Academy, does not contain
nom de plume" All decent English die
tionaries contain ''pseudonym." Those who
know any French accept the authority of
the Dictionary of the Academy; those who
know much English are aware of the ex-
istence of pseudonym, and perceive that it
is not necessary TO use even good French
as substitute for it. The whole question
has been discussed again and again in the
New York papers and in the literary col
umns of the Boston Transcript and the
Boston Herald, ''pseudonym" being the
word favored in every case. The Library
Journal began to use pseudonym at least
twenty-five years ago. Reversion to the
habit of the days when bad French was
excusable is foolish. but this especial error
is the object of the passionate affection with
a certain class. They have ceased to say
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Philadelphia Ledger.
In the last number of the Sewanee Re-
view, a quarterly representing the literary
movement in the South, the editor. John b.
Henneman, has an essay upon THE Trend
of Modern Literature" He argues against
literature of the South or East or West.
Of Russia or France or America, and de-
clares that the conspicuous characteristic
of literature to-day is its striving TO break
down all barriers of speech and race, and
become world literature" His treatment of
the whole subject is admirable for it's good
sense and the generous spirit which is evil
dence.
The idea is in sense new, since liter
allure has always been literature. no matter
whether it was written in Greek OF Latin,
in the French of Voltaire and Rosseau or
BalZac and Hugo, in the English of Chau-
Ger or Shakespeare, or in whatever other
medium has been expressed and is pre-
should not think of Tolstoy or Gorky as
Russians. Ibsen as a Norwegian, Jokai as a
Hungarian, Senkiewicz a Pole, Mater
linck as Belgian, Goethe as German,
Poe as an American, or Stevenson as a
Scot if any one of them has produced any
thing which is destined TO be a part of
the great literary heritage of the human
race.
Self-evident as the fact may be we are
too prone to forget that there is litera-
ture outside of the list of best selling books,
the American colonial novel. the current
adventure tale. the Virginia civil war story.
with which the printing presses groan, and
of which the literary" converse with cru
dite familiarity. Moreover, literature is not
all fiction. as Mr. Henneman reminds us.
Look sometimes at the essayist, the biog-
rapher, the poet, the historian, the author
of travels, the writers in the sphere of art,
philosophy, criticism and science What are
We to think of them, though their books
are not put into the gripsack for the COM
ing vacation and will not be read the
summer veranda? To one and all the same
rule is to be applied. The need is for truth,
expressed In literary form, and the test is
the test of time. The novel may come, and
the novel may go, but unless we can come
back to the characters as living and as do
ing some of the things we have to do, and
solving some of the riddles we have to an
swer. as borne along or crushed by fortune
as may happen to us in some measure
| unless we can revert back TO the book some
| three or four years later and still find a
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/. Willard, in the June Atlantic.

o. G.. Willard, in the June Atlantic.
AS soon as the army settled down in the
trenches before Santiago. smuggied musical
instruments, guitars. banjos. mouth organs
and what not appeared among the negro
troops as If by magic. and they were al
ways in use. IL was at once a scene OF
cheerfulness and gayety, and the officers
had their usual trouble In making the men
get 10 sleep instead OF spending the night
in talking, singing and gaming In the
peaceful camp of the Third Alabama in
that State the scenes were similar. There
was always "a steady hum OF laughter and
talk. dance, song. shout. and the twang OF
musical instruments" IL was "a scene fun
or life and fun. OF jostling, scuffiing and
racing, OF clown performances and cake
walks OF impromptu minstrelSy. speech-
making and preaching. OF deviling, suying
and fighting. both real and mimic" The
colonel found great difficulty In getting men
TO work alone Two would volunteer for any
service. Colonel" said a visitor TO the
camp. your s-ntinels sociabfe fellows
/ saw No. over at the end OF his beat en-
pertaining No. s with some fancy manual %
arms. Afterwards. with equal amiabflity.
No s executed a most artistic cakewaik for
his friend IL must be remembered here
that this cs,ionels men were typical South
ern negroes. htcrete and unterate, and all
new - n!i.et-' life.
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was 1913, as against 7s.7 year ago, when q
great crop was produced The average con-
ditfon of the wheat crop on the first OF
April for the last ten years has been SCI.
On the present acreage and condition. a
crop of 5S0,000.00o bushels is confidently
immensely valuable crop viii be out OF
danger. With a winter wheat crop amount
ing TO coo bushels, an average yield
or spring wheat, VIII carry the grand total
of our wheat production 10 500, 600 900 bush
els or more. The largest crop ever grown
was that of last year, when the aggregate
reached 756, go ,573 bushels. The average crop
of the last ten years has barely exceeded
500c00,000 bushels. We exported last year no
less than l55000.lJ0 bushels of wheat. re-
ceiving therefor about s1i3. 900 900. Ii seems
practically certain that we will have quite
as much wheat to sell this year.
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truth of character and business to some
thing in life-then the book is not vital, and
is not in the line of future development.
Success in this direction admits of no
classification on the basis of its selling quail
ity. Nor does ii know country or section of
country.
The trend of modern literature, in short.
means more reality. more psychology,
more truth to life, less dialect, less mere
adventure. less of the adventitious, in spite
of the fact that We have seen much of
these qualities of late"
Thus Mr.. Henneman sees the finish of
Southern literature, and with it may go
New England, Hoosier, and even Ameri-
can literature, for if there be anything truly
good in all these we shai. in due time learn
to recognize them by a better name.
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A QUARTET OF sONNETs.


Where Ignorance is bliss" as sung by Pope,
And II is, therefore, folly to be WISE"
Let happy mortals thank their friendly skies
For steadfast faith and onward-leading hope;
Since knowledge may be mocking flame
To wither Joy or show loves deadly shame,
Or bloody hend's hand Juggling at the rope
Which chokes the life from some devoted heart
Or poison a foeman's singing dart,
The swift-winged messenger OF mortal woe
SO here's TO ignorance! Let's boldly drink
The health Of ignorance. syly wink
At purblnd knowledge when our glasses cinh
For Joy of knowing that do not know.
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American Peer Feted i'm England.



Lord Fairfax. who Is likely TO reside
hereafter In England. Is regarded there in
some ways as the most interesting member
OF the Scottish peerage. The London Sketch
says that this is due TO two points: He is
the only American-born British baron, hav-
ing no settled home in the country OF his
ancestors, and yet he has in no sense
merged his British nationality In that OF
the stars and stripes"
The bearer OF famous name, his ances-
tor. the great Fairfax, was one of the few
mobiles who sided with Cromwell; he held
chief command at Marston Moor. and his
son became general In chief OF the parlia-
mentary forces. and. such, gained the
great victory at Naseby. When the King
came TO his own again the Fairfax OF that
day found IL more prudent TO emigrate to
America. He settled in Virginia, where he
had great estates, and In due course his de-
scendants became intimate with President
Washington.
The present Lord Fairfax, twelfth baron,
n a gOod-loOking man of thirty-three. He
received a special invitation 10 the corona
ton. and during his stay in London was
much feted and entertained both by his
brother peers and by those members of the
court world who were acquainted with his
curious and romantic history
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How deftly Shakespeare, in his milder moods
Seeks out the springs of rustic happiness,
Lays bare their secrets, or in .Arden's woods
Finds lore to make the motley Jester wise
And teach the great their foilies to despise!
How like gods his infinite, sad stress
Der falln ambitions utter wretchednessl
II Caesar bleed or young Antonius spout,
Or bad King Richard rage his bad life out.
Though dotard Lear so babbling his distress
Or the Moor with jealousys mad pain,
Or Hamlet rave and tug at Sorrows chain
A prince divine, though twenty time ) insane
He dowereth each from his great souls excess
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Atlanta Journal.

We have the promise this year of the
greatest crop of wheat on record. A new
record was made last year in winter wheat,
the aggregate reaching 411,00o.000 bushels.
But the present prospect is wholly unprece-
dented. There are two million more acres in
wheat this year than there were last, and
the condition of the crop is remarkably
high. On the first of April that condition
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The Dreamer.

I watched dreamer. a dreamy day,
Who wandered, smiling, through vocal wood
And idly sang therein an idle lay
A song whereof he little understood.
Or cared to understand. for that his dreams
Had far outflown the boundaries of time
And he wrought grardly with celestial themes
The while his voice droned on the shallow $
rhyme.
1t was dual life he lived that day
AS joyously he sang. yet scarcely knew
That no was singing in the common way
That men whose words exceed their wisdom do.
His song was Earth's, his radiant smile the
Skies:
He his dream, and 1T was paradise
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Ariel.

Dear vagrant. vanishing deceiver, Still
May thy receptions be as they have BEEN
To make men happier to gGrnish i'll
With fancy's fragrant vines and boughs OF
green.
That woes hard lines may soften into smiles
And tickle folly follow virtues path
To co her service. while thy song beguiles
Imperial Neptune from his murd' rous wrath
Or murmars of the wondrous sea-change
wrought
In ship-wrecked wand'rer by the wizard wave:
Or. with trick, though tring'st. forthwith,
nought
Sedltion's rage. and art TO more a slave;
BE ever more thyself-the knave's despair,
The lovers hope-swift spirit or the air,
Ben s. Parker
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New York Press.


An Englishman in Petticoat lane the
other night was caught in the act of stow
just the girls do. He slipped IL neatly
between the sleeve and cuff. Ii Is the COM
mon practice of fashionab ies in London So
ciety Just now. A few New Workers had
the habit years ago, excusing IL on the
ground that handkerchief in the pocket
tany pocket blemishes the physical con-
tour.
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Happy Editor MckeIway.
Brooklyn Eagle.

Brooklyn Eagle
The Buffalo News, the Richmond News
Dispatch and other jollying papers are nom
mating for chief ma gistrate OF the United
States an editor who Is already president
where he works. and vice president, where
he lives. and who Is perfectly satisfied
-ith both offices.
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ION the carpet" but they cling to nom
de plume" with the devotion Of Mrs. Nil
cawber.
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CHESAPEAKE & OHIO ~.

Trains leave Pennsy lFania station Daily
900 p M-CHICACO AND ST LOUIS SPE-
CTAI solid vesribule. electric lighted.
dining car train, with Pullman sleepers 20
Louisville. Cincinnati. Indianapolis. and 81
Louis Parlor Cars Cincinnati % Chicago
Dining Car from " ashIngton-
II 10 P NJ F. V. LIMITED solid vestfhule.
electric lighted, dining car train, with Pull
man Sleepers 70 Cincinnati. Lexington, and
louisville Compartment Sleeper 70 Eir-
e5nia Hot Springs daily except sunday
sIeeners Cincinnati 20 Chicago and ST
Louis Dining Car
Reservation an5 tickets at 5f3 FSrnsg ivania
s-s-,rIs- COZ Fo.urteouth Street. ne-< II, a1d az
- station Telephone ICE0 fo- Pennsylvania
60 service II ". FULLER.
1900 W4is 1O6G General Passenger Agent
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RAILROADS.
Pennsylvania RAILROAD.

STATION CORNER OF Siam AND 3 STA
$50 A. II. DAILY. PTrrSDURG E1FKEsS-
faIior and Dining Nars harrisburg % rittsDurg-
49, A NJ DAILY. FENSSl ~ ANA La.
LIED-FuilInan Sleeping. DiniEg. smoLlng. and
Observation Cars Harrisburg 70 ChieAGo. Ca
einnAti, Indianapolis. 81 Lo1is Cleveland.
Ioleeo. and Detroit BuEet f4rlor Car 10 hAs-
risburg.
1910 A. II. DAILY. PAST LISE-Psllmaa
$50 P. n. DAILY. CHICAGO AND ST LOUIS
Lcv-s- and sleepllg and Dining CaEs Harrisburg
C. luolan2po.ls. 81 iseGis. Louisville ola Ga
cinnati) ans Chlcaso.
7.I5 p. A. DAILY ST. LOUIS Express
Put oar sleepin., Car Harrisbarz 70 ST LouiA
4-45 p A. DAILY. WESl ERN ESP8ES-+-Pali-
nan sleeping C4s 20 Pltts5urs and sSAioaga-
7;95 P. n. DAILY. CLEVELAND AND cINc1I-
NAII EAPkESS-Pulimar Sleeping CArs ana-
lngton % PIttsogrs, AID Harrisburg ~ O4sFs-
1870 p n DAILY. PACIFIC EAPRESs-PuI-
nan Sleeping Car % P.stzbCrE.
20 A A. DAILY. BUFFALO DAY E1PREss.
with through Broilcr Buffet P2rior Car a1A
coaches 70 Budalo. via Emporium Junction
80 A n ior Kane. CaRandaiEua. koehass~<.
ano Nlagara Tails daily except SUNDAY
1850 A ii. f1r Eimira and Remove Gsilyr sz-
cept Sunday For NiIliamspOrt daily, } SO p n
7'i5 T. X. DAILY, BUFFALO NIGHT EXPkkss-
vita through Buffet Sleeping ar aud So-ShHs
% bursio. VIA Emporium Junction
I;f5 p v. DAILY for Erie; for Rochester.
Buffalo, and Niagara Falls daily. except s2tslr-
1910 P. 81 for Erie. CznandaiguA. Rochester.
BGfslo. and Niagara FAik daily PailnAS
500 P. X. CONGRESSIONAL LIluTED''-
Daily fgs New YORK. all ParlOE Cam. ~arA
Dining Car from 3altirnore-
For Philadelphia, New York, and tia
East
Express. 90 Dining Car. Z 81 CDinlng Carl.
$40 lDining Carl. 300 1900 (D-ninE Car)s sna
u 90 Dining Car from v inst9sl -
$50, 1000 p. n, lzsl0 night On ssaesys,
90 Dining Car). 81 Dining Carl. s.ls
Siil11i a N. i9:i5. AIS. $50 DINING
Car frOm Baltimore). ESQ., 1000 r NJ N'N
Eieht-
I2..5 ?. N. week days. e;Ol. 40. and $40 P
n. daily.
For Boston, without change. T.SS A. Al. week
For Baltimore. $500. 6:l5, 200. T:45. 90.
81. $40 500 1000. 1850, II 90 A. n. l2s1s.
1875. l-28 2:0l. 3-l5, $50 900 Li1aiseag'
$40. 40 ass $50. $50, 6:15. go I:lS 1stas
loaO. 1870. rs P. n. and 1910 night Ga
sundays, 7-o0. -, : 81. sslo. %. s-o6.
O:OO Limited]. 4:I0 1870. 40. $50, $40;
80. 5si5. 5.4S. 1860. 1850 4. A. and lin
Fer Pepe's Creek Line. $50 A. NJ aad 4sSs P
A. weekdays sundayz. sO5 A n
For AnnaD polls T.s5 A NJ 1913 and 4:1o p
NJ week days Sundays. 800 An an $50 IN
For Atlantic City.
through Pullman Buffet Parlor Car, via Della
ware River Bridge Route. I2.s5 p n week
Ticket Offices, corner tTfteenth and strestH-
ard az the station. sixth and 3 Streets Snere
orders can be left for the checking Of baggage
70 destination from hotels and residences
Telephone call ''1540' for Pennsylvania Rail-
[ - W "a KT9FRBTRY. J.R. WOOD.
General Manager. General Passenger Agent
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RAILROADS
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.


=, e:lo =. u Daily. Local for HsrrisonoGrZ,
iCSl g N Daily Washington and Florida
Limited First-clsss coaches and drawing-room
sleeper to jacksonville. fla lining car service.
n-l5 a. M. Daily. United States Fast Kali
fsrst- class coaches and drawing room sleepei
10 New Orleans. Dining car service.
f:Sl p m Week DayA Local Tor Harrisoa-
4-s0 p m. Daily. Local for Nsrzenton and
Charlottesville
6;sI ?. q. Week Days sOutbera's palm
Limited. solid Pullman trim Through Draw
ing Room sleepers 10 Aka. .AGSusts. Ssysn-
nah. Jacksonville. and St AuSustine. Clu5,
Dining. and Observation Cars-
s;s5 p. n. Daily. New York and Atlanta Ez.
FTess Flrst-cias cOzch and sleeper 70 Atlanta.
MONDAYS. Wednesdays. and Friday. sunset
Francisco. Pullman Buffet service
s:SJ n Daily. New York and Florida
Express F1r9t-class coach End deeper 70 Cam
deo. Summerviile. Charleston, Savannah. Jack
sOnvilIe. and Port Tampa; aleeper TO Augusta.
and connection for Aiken Dining car service
lO;ol ?. n Daily New York and Memphis
sleeping car TO Roanoke. Knoxyille. Chat
tsnooga, and Memphis: deeper 10 Mex Orleans
Dining car service.
western Limited. All Pullman train. club aud
observation cars to Atlanta ard hacon5 sleep
Sev 9r,s.1. h'iis, AsiaRsa; Ass9n' - F+5,isS
through EleePe- 10 Pinehurst Dining car ser
vice.
TRAINS on BLUEMOST BRANCH.
Leave Warrington. $50 a m and 8sts p. N;
y ~ week GAYS w ?. ms 1sSS p ~ 49,
SIS 2 N. Latter for LeeaBurg only
Through trains from the South arrive Wash
lngton 0-s2 a. -, 6-52 a. H., 40 l. m, $50
a. m, $500 ?. H., Sis p. m. and $50 p m
daily lois a. M daily, except Monday Local
trains from HarI iECpburg. u 80 a. NJ week dal .
and sos p H. daily. From Cha-iottesvills,
6-2s a. m and 9-OS p. m daily.
Tickets, sleeping car reservations, and de-
tailed infoTma ton car be had at ticket Ofices-
700 18th St. 5lI Pennsylvania Ave. aad Penn
sylvania Station. Baggage checked through
from hotels add residences
Phone 1910. T. X. r. Cab Service
C. a. ACKERT, General Manager.
: r. HARDWICK. General Pas'r Agent
\ S. BROWN. General Agent