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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-23

His western grave
 John B. Tabb. in Harpers Magazine
 for october.
 Keith Boyce, author of The Folly of Others" and The Foreunner," (Fox, Duffield & Co. New York). has had something to say about herself in re- cent interviews. Mrs. Hapgood was the victim at one time of little ex- perience In New York journalism.
 My newspaper experience was brief" she says. lasting less than a year in all-and through very interest ing to myself at the time presents no features of public interest. IL was not a brilliant success. in fact. The whistlerian effects of language and a severe case Of bronchitis.
 But the unusual thing about the pa per was the group of men connected with it who have since worked out into larger literary fields. Lincoln Steffens, the author of The shame of the Cities was then city editor. Nor man Hapgood was dramatic editor. Abraham Cahan, the novelist, was one of the general staff. which included also Hutchins Hapgood. Carl Hovey and Ed win Lefevre. A certain New York pub fisher was copy editor" at the out break of the war in Cuba, when he went South as correspondent for the paper, and for a short time edited copy in his place. Among other things I had to read his letters--a la- borious task, for he wrote a perfectly illegible hand. Each installment of war; r-correspondence, in fact, caused an outbreak of hostilities in the compos- ing-room. and his proof used to come down full of blanks and looking like a regiment after a charge in face of the enemy. Then I would work late into the evening hours, puzzling out and fit ting in the missing words. and occa- sionally consulting the foreman of the composing-room--a gentleman who al- ways wore a leather apron and 8 look of obstinate patience, and who referred to me sardonically as the lady copy reader
 At the time I was living on Gov ernor's Island. In the same house. with the wife of one of the officers sacrificed in the war, were Marie Man ming. who has since written two suc- cessful novels, and Elizabeth Jordan, now editor of Harper's Bazaar. Miss Manning was then on The Journal. and Miss Jordan on The World, and they both used to glory in the successful violence of their newspapers. and re- ferred to the gentle old Commercial as Grandmother The war and my news paper career ended together
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-23

Catarrh is an excessive secretion, &C., companied with chronic inflammation. from the mucous membrane. Hood acts on the mucous mem- brane through the blood. reduces in- flammation, establishes healthy action. and radically cures all cases or ca- tarrh. Adv.-tu-thu-su.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-23
Dr. OsIer's Career.

pr. William Osler, of the Johns Hop kins Medical School, who has been made Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University. is not an American by birth. He was born at Tecumseh. Ontario, in 1S49, and is a graduate of McGill University, Montreal. He Is an LID. of McGill and of the universities of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and Yale. He Is the author of several medical works, and contributed a valuable es- say on Medicine" to the well-known volume The Progress of the Century. published by Harper & Brothers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-23

and is at work on a group of short stories of Western life. The hrst oi these Is completed and will be pup lished In Harper's Magazine MISS Manning also has in hand new noTeI of New York life, which promises to oo notably strong and original.
 l
 An Authors Clever Protest
 The late William McLennan, author of those delightful books Spanish John' The Span O Life, and In Old France and New. was troubled at one ume because the compositors at Harper x Brothers did not use the English spell ing and put the us in such words as honor, favor, etc, a custom which MT McLennan, being Canadian, consid- . cred desirable. Accordingly the head of the compositors' department at the Harper's one day received the follow ing verses written in MT. McLennan clear. upright ohirography: ITO my Printer who will not use US: O you. contemner of all U's.
 How can U stand within my favor? When through the niggard rule U
 choose
 U're wanting in all good behavior; In honor lacking, labor lost
 Tn succor useless. flown in flavor. U want in candor to UT cost
 scarce can see U in my neiehbor
 W. M
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-23

Unless a man is a good listener. he can't expect to be happily married.
 Cold never yet ldlded a woman
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-23
ABOUT CLIFTON FLOUR.

ABOUT CLIFTON FLOUR. Its about the finest quality we've ever soid---nO derects in the milling process and made of the choicest ele- rnents. Its milIed in Owensboro, Ky, and has a guarantee behind 1t.
 Phone zoe.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-23
Mrs. Wards Success as PhIlanthropist.

Mrs. Humphrey Ward has again achieved success in her philanthropic work. Five years ago she established a branch for special instruction and care of crippled children in the vacation school of the Passmore Edwards Set clement in London, which was founded through her influence. These little handicapped children have been tender ly nursed and taught trades and arts, and the tiny school is now able to an nounce that one boy. formerly a help less invalid. has been apprenticed to a firm of gold and silversmiths; another boy with spinal complaint and another with club feet have been apprenticed to an artist in photogravure; another pupiIfis printers reader; one girl Is serving in a milliner's atelier; another is at the Art School and will finish her training eventually at the Royal School of Art Needlework.' The idea has been to train these physically help less children in the use of their brains, that their lives may be happy and self supporting in spite of their infirmities. The wonder remains that Mrs. Ward can find time to accomplish so much valuable work in addition to the writ ing of novels, of which her latest. The Marriage of William Ashe, is now ap- bearing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-23
Reasons For Liking the South,

Miss Gertrude Smith, whose book for chilren. Little Precious, is just pub lished byp the Harpers, was recently asked by a New Englander why she lived In Atlanta when she might Hive in Boston, to which she made the fol. lowing interesting reply:
 ''The South Is waking up. I like to see things wake up! Atlanta is like a Western. city on a boom It is ths highest City but one east of the Rocky Mountains. and. being on the delight ful end of the Blue Ridge Mountains, 1t doesn't have humidity. August has been too cool. The nights are never to be forgotten-always cool. Every one wears white, moves slowly, and takes things easy. There are too many negroes. and they wait on you for very little, and every one has open fires in winter, and waffles and fried chicken
 ----
 NEW ARRIVALS.
 I'm choice fat lOater mackereI, HOl- land Herring, Pig Feet and Brook Trout In Kits.
 SMITH & WORNUM,
 Phone 6O6.
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Irving BachelIer,. Originality.

Irving Bachellers new novel. Ver- gilius is said to have none of the time honored features of the story of Rome and Jerusalem with which readers are familiar. All its scenes and incidents are in a sense novel and unhackneyed. There is no fight in an amphitheatre, and no imperial thumb-turning to de- eide the fate of the victim; no burning of Christians, nor. indeed, any actual scenes of torture.
 StenOgraphy and the Moral Character.
 The connection between shorthand
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writing and the moral character has never been demonstrated. Now comes an Interesting statement upon this point from man who composed a sue, cessful novel in shorthand-Mr. Gar denhire, author of Lux Crucis, publish ed last February by the Harpers. He writes thus to the Photographic Mag azine:
 T began the study of photography twenty-eight years ago, when l was twenty years of age, and acquired some competency during the succeeding five years of law study and briefiess prac- tice. It was of inestimable value to me during this period. as 1t afforded me an income, and widened my capacity for a better study of my profession. did a general reporting business in the courts of St. Louis, and served Wal bridge, Holland & Brown, a noted firm of general stenographers. period as official stenographer added to my ex- perience and since that time have , written shorthand in connection with my engagements as a lawyer, probably every day of my life I imagine that l. has related to my welfare and activ- ity,/as its facility relates to its sim pliicty as compared with longhand. It has enormously enlarged my capacity for work; conserved my health; light ened my labor; saved me wrinkles. gray hairs and care; improved my temper and disposition: strengthened my moral character. in that it had to do with all of the preceding; and in every way | tended more to make me a useful citi- zen than any other accomplishment which I may have acquired"
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A Newl-,omnnce writer.

Thompson LSchanan, whose The Cas- tic Comedy is just published by the Harpers, was born in New York, but most of his life has been passed in the South. He is a Kentuckian. if not by birth, by breeding His father was a clergyman, his mother the daughter of a naval officer. MT. Buchanan is we'll equipped from an hereditary stand point. He was educated at various schools and studied for two years at the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. He has been a devoted student of athletics, played half-back on the
 Varsity football team. explained the
 Varsity track team. and won the South ern Intercollegiate championship twice in the high jump and high hurdles. Af- ter leaving college he went into journ alism, and wrote The Castle Comedy in the brief intervals of newspaper work. He is now on the staff of a prominent New York daily.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-23
WILL REPORT TOMORROW.

Commission to Fix Value of Capitol
 Square Property.
 The Commission appointed by Probate Judge J. B. Gaston to appraise the damages to property owners incur red by the condemnation of capitol
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-23
An Author,a Nevv Work.

Miss Marie Manning. author of Judith of the Plains. has returrs3 from abroad
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-23
A Rural Opinion.

Will Carleton, author of the famous Over the Hill to the Poor-House and many other poems. was recently travel ing in a stage-coach among the Green Mountains when he fell into aeltterary conversation with a prosperous farm CT. who evidently resided in one of the towns along the road. In the course of conversation the farmer. who had no suspicion of the authors identity, quoted from MT. Carleton's poems to illustrate some point he was trying to make.
 "oh. that's from Carleton!' said the poet, "and I never have been in the habit of believing half he said"
 The farmer eyed him a minute some what contemptuously.
 Well, stranger" he retorted, slowly, T don't know you, nor I don't want to be uncivil, but If you ever know half as much as Will Carleton does you'll know twice as much as you do now"
 MT. Harben is now at Dalton. Ga. his birthplace, which Is his summer head quarters. From there he and Mrs Har- ben make frequent excursions to other cities. MT. Harben writes that the Southern summer has been delightfully."- cool, and that he has been gathering literary material by living in all sorts of ways. from tent-life with railroad surveying party in the mountains to the "giddy whirl of the Southern sum mer resort hotel"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-23
A Poser.

Publishers of books not only have strange communications sent them in the mails, but they have odd and curl ous visitors as we'll The other day a man having the appearance of a re- spectable longshoreman entered one of the departments of Harper and Broth CTS, in New York, and was shown to the proper desk by an office boy. The man seated himself politely, and said to the official who occupied the desk:
 T want to write a novel," There was a dead silence, broken presently by thu official, who asked.
 What do you want us to dor"
 The visitor seemed somewhat dis comfited by this counter question, and began talking vaguely about the amount of royalty the publishers might pay him, winding up with the following poser:
 If I wrote a novel. how long could live on it?' Which sounds like one of the conundrums in Alice in Wonder land.
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rEnsosAI. AND RESENTMENT.

The Mid-sea SunA No peak to hide his splendor. till the day
 Has passed away, No dial shade of any tree or flower
 To mark the hour; A wave his orient cradle, and a wave
 His western grave. John B. Tabb, in Harper's Magazine for October.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-23

There is no denying Ade's large and growing popularity among many diff ferent sorts of readers. Here Is the latest skit on the celebrated fabulist's work:
 "A Litertary Digest. Very fond of good books was young
 Prang. For dinner he'd start in with Lang; He'd wash down Bill Nye
 With some James, extra dry; For dessert Georgies fables in slang"
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very IOnu ol BOOu poohS was yOuHB
 Prang.
 For dinner he'd start in with Lang;
 He'd wash down Bill Wye
 With some James, extra dry;
 For dessert Georgies fables in slang"
 The first edition of the anonymous Jessica Letters Is almost exhausted, and the Putnams. who publish this spright- ly romance, announce that the next i'm pression will contain on the title-page the names of the joint authors. The secret has been well guarded. but there are a few who will not be sur prised to know that these names will be Paul Elmer More and Mrs. Lundy Howard Harris.
 MT. More Is we'll known in New York literary circles. He was formerly lit- erary editor of the Independent" and he now occupies a similar position on The Evening Post, where articles sign ed with his initials frequently appear. a recent one on w. B. Yeats having attracted considerable attention. A book of essays from his pen has come out this month with the Putnam i'm print. This Is entitled Shelburne Es- says. mad deals with prominent literary figures. It is intended to follow this volume with a series of similar collect ed essays covering the field of English literature. The Jessica Letters show that MT. More is a classical student. He is also an authority on sauskrlt.
 Mrs. Lundy Howard Harris is one of the best known literary women of the South Her husband has been for fif- teen years the Professor of Greek in Emory College. Oxford, Ga. Mrs. liar ris has been a frequent contributor to The Independent, and 1t was while MT. More was connected with this paper that the Jessica Letters were conceived and written. Recently Mrs Harris was engaged by The Independent to visit the St. Louis Exposition and to con tribute to It's columns an account of the Fair. Her articles have attracted wide interest and comment. and she has been Invited to contribute articles by such magazines as the Century, Harper's Magazine, Lippincott's. The Critic and The Ladies Home Journal. So far, however, she has remained for the most part faithful to her first literary spon- sor. The Independent. The most char acteristic thing about Mrs. Harris is her fearlessness. Whether she is hand ling a great political question in an editorial, or writing a letter to her pub fisher, she says Just what she thinks and pleases, and if people do not agree with her. why then they can disagree. The Jessica Letters is Mrs. Harris's first book but 1t Is rumored that she has another novel up her sleeve. If so. it will be worth req ling.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-23
NEW BOOK NEWS
 CONDUCTED BY MARTHA YOUNG
MARTHA YOUNG

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-20
Eugland's Self-Made Men.

From the St James Gazette.
England, long disparaged by American
boosters, particularly by those American
boosters who think America the only land
of unlimited opportunity, is beginning to
count up her self-made men. We hear so
much of American captains of industry, OF
John D. Rockefeller, the farm laborer 9
son; of Edison, the newspaper boy; of
Yerkes the youthful soap jobber, that we
are apt to forget British giants of perse-
verance. Livingstone worked as factory
hand until twenty-five; the man who sought
and found him in the wildS was born in a
workhouse. The great firm of w. II. Smith
that the wife of one had to go into do
nestle service. The house of Tangye be-
gan in a little workshop. whose rent was
but As. a week; that of Lever Brothers
had a scarcely more pretentious start at
Bolton. A coffee stall on a London curb
was the fount and origin of Pearce &
Plenty; ECO once formed the total capital
of the universal Whitley. Bass brew
cry was founded by a carrier; the Elder
Dempster line of steamers by a ships ap-
prentice, now Sir Alfred Jones. The in
ventor of BesSemer steel was once poor,
almost starving boy in London, the poorer
for having devoted his labor to an inven-
ton of whose profits the government rob-
bed him So one might go on through
out the whole range of our industries. It
is the sergeant and the plain constable of
life's affairs who have made this nation in
dustriaIly great, and carried it's flag and
fame to the ends of the earth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-20

HER INFINITE VARIETY. By Brand Whit
lock- author of The Thirteenth District" IT,
lustrated by Howard Chandler Christy. Deco
rations by Ralph Fletcher Seymour. Indianapo
lis: The Bobbs Merrill Company.
This volume is striking tribute to au-
thor. Illustrator and publishers. 1t is of
light texture, of a brevity such as seldom
calls for the covers of a separate-volume
edition. and lacking in the usual elements
of the novel. That is to say, it is barely
more than an episode. But an episode CT
significance, withal. and so treated in the
telling that it acquires the semblance OF
prolonged situation. With the aid of the
Illustrator. whose name alone suffices to at
tract attention to any work it commands
distinguished place In this seasons early
fiction. The publishers on their part have
scored success in thus combining the ma
terials for a charming book, which can be
read through in short time and which is
made the more delectable by reason of the
many pictures. Seldom. indeed, is a story
given so much establishment. Usually six
illustrations suffice for a long novel. This
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Meat and the PHYSIQUE.
m the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle. e
The improved physique of the Jananase
to which you recently called attention.
writes correspondent is undoubtedly due
to the more generous diet which thew have
enjoyed of recent years. In the past thew
were vegetarians. more from necessity thar
choice, and their staple food of rice and
pickles, though ii made them tough and
why. stunted their growth. This is proved
Japanese wrestlers. They come of tha
same stock, but they seem to be a different
race. for their average height must be
close on six feet, and their weight some-
ample of heredity, for some of them can
trace their wrestling ancestry back for CEN
turtles, and they have always been meat
eaters
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The Walking Stic' Returns to Earth.


The fact of the return Of the walking
stick to earth is very remarkable one.
for 1t must be approaching fifteen years
since walking sticks were used and not
worn or merely carried. With the dis
appearance of the "crutch" the walking
stick left the ground. At first 1t was car
ried In the right hand, considerably nearer
the ferrule than the top" and held in
this position. was f1ourished in a most dan
gerous manner. Before long the, hand
travelled more amidships, when the action
from hail-like, became a ramming one Then
suddenly the stick was thrust under tba
left arm, where 1t remained some vears
Inc advent of the curved or crook handle
mad It's inevitable result. Instinctiyely man
wanted to hook 1t upon sometbine
and. finding his left arm close at hand
straightway hung it up and created a
fashion after the unconscious manner of
MS KIND. Why the walking stick has once
more come to the ground thus to discover
the perforated condition of the West End
pavement. 1t is at present impossih,e TO
say 1t WILL no doubt, be remarked how.
ever, that the king has for a year mast een-
eraily been seen using a walking sticR IF
rather more than usual length. and ali
STICKS are now cut long
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-20
Plymouth Rock.
From the Philadelphia Press.

During one OF my visits through tho
country districts" said the professor az
happened TO reach a small village wbera
they were to have a fag-raising at the
schooi house. After the banner had been
Hung to the breeze there was an exbibit,on
OF drawings which the pupils had made and
OF the work they had done during the wear
The teachers recited to them The Land
ing of the Pilgrims and after she had
hnished she requested each pupil to try and
of Plymouth Rock p'o.ofe
Most OF them went to work at once b,t
raised his hand nslh
Well. Willie. what is it?. asked the
Please. ma am, do you want us to draw
hen or a rooster?''
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How "Abide With Me" Was Written
From the London Telegram

Al the age of fifty-four Lyle found him
self doomed to die of consumption, and in
sorrow at having to leave his task unfin-
ished he prayed that at the least it might
De granted to him to write something
which would live to the glory of God whsn
ne was dead. Then on the last evening he
ever spent at Brixham, after preaching his
farewell sermon, he took pen. and as the
sun was setting over the ships that Law IN
N harpor Abide With Me" was written.
Next morning he started for the pi,r;a
and there died a month later
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Had Been Collecting There.
atlanta Constitution

From the Atlanta Constitution.
Boy-"Git in the loft Yonder comes a
man with a shotgun
Editor-"Blank cartridges There amt
money enough in this town to buy buck
shot"
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Heirlooms.

From the Detroit Free Press.
Mrs. Hatterson-"Mrs. Sparkleton de-
seconded from a glazier, didn't she?"
Mrs. Catterson-"Why?'
Mrs Hatterson-"I saw her last night
with her family jewels on"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-20

did your mother accompany you to the
ball?"
mo. left her at home whats home
without mother?'-Life
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Proof.

Us she home missionary.
II judge so; her children act like a lot of
sayages,"