The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-25

Half way up a bluff near Sentinel Rock
 In Wyoming valley, Wis, stands sol-
 itary little pine wood cabin. the sum
 mer home and working den of the author
 of "The Cougar Tamer Frank Welles
 CaliSins The golden rod is beginning to
 drop in the rag weed and blue grass
 clumps which thieken the ground about,
 but red sumac is coming fast, and 1alls,
 crimson lake in the hollows, while l hardwood maple just off zigzag path reeling low down to the spring house l commences to throw her autumn colors bright against the black oak and cedar which darken the bluff clear up to the feathery sky line.
 A curl of smoke breathed from a toy like chimney twines around the trunks of virgin forest trees, looming bolt up- right on the bluffs sheer descent, and speaks human habitation. A hammock, too, red as the sumac, swings a stones throw from the cabin, and is warm touch in the slowly graying grass.
 The tiny, one-roomed cabin is painted faint blue-green. A pine stalk rears It's slender staff in the center of the gray shingled roof and an old Cuban flag withers about 1t like a sunburned morning glory. silken drapery of the stars and stripes festoons the window over the writing table inside, and when the sun grows low to the west the light plays through the colors like rare stained glass. 1nis, together with the crickets snirp, the warm wood fire, and the hurry scurry of little pet squirrels gives an aspect to the room quite like a smile.
 It Is but a little box-like affair, with pine shelves tumbled with books and magazines, climbing sidewise and corner wise; a bed tossed over with red com fort a wardrobe bulky with old hunting suits; two chairs a table-ce est tout But that is enough-quite enough, providing the old Mallinckrodt pipe Is also added. Then too 1t is impossible that the Bull lard rife should be forgotten. She has been a good eomrade these many years to the author of "The Cougar Tanner, stood by him in the face of Rocky Mountain grizzy bears, in the midst of stampedlng buffaloes skulking Indians and charging elk. Why. every grain in her stock speaks q winters count, thrill Ing as that of the Sioux. and her firing pin-it quivers sensitively-it is human as any tongue. So thus she Is stanch companion in the wilderness. Shining and alert she leans her nozzle across the much fingered Century and Brittanica
 And what of himself-thc owner of the cabin, the pipe and the gun and the rest? He Is not in the least a shaggy haired, unshaven genius in shirtsleeves. He is quite a civilized gentleman, in fact rather a southern aristocrat, though he is no southern. He sits over the table writes, writes. There is an Pl-get-there- or-die attitude about him. Mostly the get-there He is black haired, th'nly built. youthful looking for a man turned 40 with quick. alert. far-seeing eyes. He has enthusiasm-still enthusiasm! But most of all he Is level headed. With the self belief. the longing and stretch or the early 2O's, he has added the common sense, the concentration of the years forty. He writes with his head, speaks. acts. from his head. Thus he still re- mains a baohelorl He does not in the least belong to the pine wood setting, however, the cabin, the pipe and gun. He has Boston in him. He is a literary man to the finger tips. And he Is fastidious. He makes the first drafts of his stories on the finest of cream linen. He then makes second, third, fourth drafts and all on cream linen! But the tread of the hunter" expressed itself in his fingers as they move cautiously, definitely. He writes a 5000 or 4000 word story some times and gives a months hard labor to it's perfect accomplishment That Is re- arkable-here in America he lives out every detail of his stories
 Here in the quiet and wilderness of Wyoming valley MT. Calkins leads the life of a recluse and a warker for at least seven months of the year. Having abundant material gleaned from thirty years western travel and adventure, he has no need to step beyond his minds g eve for "eopy." Few men have had so interesting and eventful life. No writer in America has had so close and inti- mate an association with Indians, cow boys. ranch life. Indian fighter, teacher ranchman, railway contractor real es- &~s@~-~-e-s-<> ~s->~->>> man dinner to be given the members of the second class in Washington at the New Willard on the evening of Septem- her 29 Every midshipman Is expected to report for duty on september 50 at the academy and the announcement that MT. Cabaniss would remain In Birmingham III october was a mistake.
 Dr. and Mrs. Frank Nabers have re- turned.
 Miss Annie O,6rien has returned from Asheville N C.. where she has been spending the summer
 MT. A. c. Billups has returned from Central America where he went In the interest of the Bush-Hall Shoe company of Mobile.
 Miss Mamie Billups is visiting Miss Lottie Green of Atlanta. Ga