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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-22
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.

The Democratic State Convention
OF Pennsylvania refused to instruct
the national delegates to vote for the
nomination of Judge Parker for presi-
dent.
The Chicago police are searching
for George William Miller. of Brook
lyn, who is the sole heir to a large
fortune left by his father.
The annual meeting of the National
Association of Manufacturers and Dis
tributors of Food Products was held
in New York.
The joint funeral of Midshipman
Ward and aNeumann. who were killed
on the Missouri, was held at Oswego,
N. Y.
The United States Steel Corporation
has made a proposition for the pur-
chase of the Clarion Steel Company.
Monk Eastman, the East Side thug,
was sentenced to 10 years in the penn
Tertiary in New York.
Five hundred mineworkcrs of the
Katydid Colliery at Moosic have
struck.
The University of Chicago will
start the Oxford idea of teaching.
The Klondike will produce at least
$4,000, 900 this year.
Vice Chancellor Bergen, in Jersey
City, dismissed the application for an
Injunction against the Northern Sc
curities meeting and the distribution
of stock, sustaining the Northern Sc
curities contention that the suit was
unwarranted.
The death of President Hugh c.
Dennis, of the Rialto Grain and Sc
curities Company of St. Louis, is at
tributed to brooding over the convic-
ton of Senator Burton.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. c. Stone, of Ogden,
Utah, were found dead in each Others
arms. The woman is supposed to
have poisoned her husband and
herself.
Postmaster General Payne and his
party have sailed from Galveston for
the North on the revenue cutter
Onondaga..
was filed in New York against the
Globe Security Company. Fraud is
alleged
Julius Eckel was sentenced in New
Jersey to 20 years in State Prison for
killing his wife and Mrs. McDermott.
The coal operators and miners of
Iowa signed two-year agreement
that provides for slight reduction.
Two Chicago negroes caused the ar
rest of several Cinnamon for violation
of the Civil Rights Law by refusing
to serve them in a restaurant.
Six men were injured by collapse
of a building at Eighth avenue and
Thirty fifth street, New York. Four
of the injured we're passersby.
Two St. Louis physicians are using
new drug in the treatment of con-
sumption with promising results.
-Four persons were injured by a
gasoline explosion in an automobile
factory in Detroit
The first trip through the new sub
way of Ney York City was made.
Six men were injured by the col
lapse of building in New York.
w. H. Kenworthy, an American
Express Company messenger, and
Harry Drake, a baggagemaster on the
Big Four Railroad, have confessed to
the Cincinnati police that for a year
they have been robbing trunks and
express packages.
A settlement was reached in the
sheet and tin-plate wage dispute and
q strike avoided that would have in
volved thousands of men.
Monk" Eastman, the leader of
notorious gang of thugs of the East
Side, New York, was convicted OF as
sault in the first degree.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-22
Foreign.

Austen Chamberlain, chancellor of
the British exchequer, in presenting
the budget to the House of Com
mons, stated that the markets in which
Great Britain had heretofore been
supreme were increasingly threatened.
His proposal for increased duties upon
tea and tobacco were adopted.
The University of Glasgow confer
red the honorary degree of doctor of
laws on United States Ambassador
Choate.
The worlds fourth Sunday school
convention opened i'll Jerusalem in /
huge tent outside Herod's Gate.
Thirteen lives were lost in an ava
l&nche that swept an Alpine hamlet in
Switzerland
The Gar has extended imperial
clemency to DR.. Guershovina and two
accomplices who were in the terrorist
plots which resulted in the sssassina-
tons of two ministers.
The British submarine boat run
down and sunk was raised and towed
into Portsmouth harbor and the bodies
OF the dead officers and crew removed,
The Prince and Princess of Wales,
with their suite, started from London
for Vienna. where they will visit the
Emperor Francis Joseph.
A train conveying King Edward and
Queen Alexandra from Copenhagen
on their way to London, was derailed,
but they escaped injury.
One hundred and fifty officers and
men from the cruiser Detroit partici-
pated in the memorial services held
in Santo Domingo.
The House OF Commons sanctioned
by resolution the employment OF In
dian troops in the political mission
to Tibet 1t was announced that
Colonel Younghusband had reached
Gyangste, Tibet, which was his goal.
An imposing funeral service was
held over the body of Queen Isabella
in Paris, after which the body was
taken TO Madrid.
The police in Barcelona have ar
rested an acomplice TO Joaquin Miguel
Artao, who attempted to assassinate
Premier Maura.
Colonel Marchand, the hero of the
Fashoda affair, bitterly resents his
treatment by the French War Office.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-11-01
Japanese Make Another Attack on
Port Arthur, Withstandine
Terrific Fire.
SLOWLY CREEPING FORWARD
Two More General Assaults VIII
Be Necessary Before the In.
vaders Can Accomplish
Their Purpose.

rhefoo. Oct 81. 2 .. m.--The general
assault upon Port Arthur which began
In Il preliminary way on oct. "a de-
ycloped into a flercely raging battle yes
tcrday when. according hitherto In
fnlllble authority. the Japanese flung
heavy forces against the fortress IN
their third attempt 10 secure Il COM
mandlng position. The result OF yes
terday's fightlng In unknown. The
Japanese have been preparing for this
assault for "A month. II IN believed Tint
the Japanese did not expect to cap
turc the town on this occasion. but to
accomplish another forward step. This
plan was adopted following the first
assault. when thousands OF lives were
sacrificed In the attempt TO swarm
over the fortliicatlons by mere force
OF numbers regardless Of loss. This
assault. like the previous one. was
climatic incident Of weary weeks OF
trench digging gun mounting ana
small engagements. In the opinion OF
experts the assault viii cense when the
Japanese have secured such positions
aa viii enable them to creep steadily
closer under the noses OF the Russian
guns. II In believed that two more
general assaults viii be necessary be-
fore the distance between the bellig-
crent lines In sufficiently shortened to
make an attempt to enter the main
forts aud make the end of the siege
practicable.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-11-01
Bio Battle Expected.

Mukdcn. Oct 3i.-~After several days
of quIetness. big guns commenced
booming TO the southeast last night.
continuing until early this morning,
Fighting has taken place between re-
connoitering parties, the Japanese
having crossed the Shakhe river to-
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-11-01
,ard the southeast.

iard the southeast.
A big battle Ia expected this week,
which. unless successful upon the part
II the Russians, VIII probably be the
ast under the present arrangement
A complete reorganization Of the
army II now under way. General Ku-
ropntkIn Is Ia supreme command.
viceroy Aleffieff left on October 30
for Russia.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-11-01

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28

Yet they could on occasion 'let themselves co.
and pay their tribute in ungrudgIn g measure
PERHAPS" says Nicolas Rowe. musIng upon
what the first essay OF fancy like Shake
speares may have been. perhaps not to
look for his beginnings. like those OF other au-
thors. among his least perfect writings: art had
so little. and nature so large. a share in what
he did. that. for aught know. the performances
In his youth. they the most vigorous.
and had the most fire and strength OF imagina-
ton in en- were the best l would not be
thought by this to mean that his fancy
loose and extravagant TO be independent
the rule and government OF Judgment but that
what he thought commonly great.
justly and rightly CONCEIVED in itself. that it
wanted little or correction and was immedi-
ately approval by impartial Judgment at the
first sight" Dennis free with his pane
gyric Rowe. Shakespeare" he wrote. was
one of the greatest Genius's that lhe World Ger
saw for the Tragick Stage. Tho he lay under
greater Disadvantages than any of hts Success
sors. yet had he greater and more genuine
Beauties than the best and greatest of them"
Theobald was enthusiastic that he approached
his theme with the remark that THE Attempt
10 write upon Shakespeare is like going into
large a spacious and n splendid Dome thro' the
Conveyance OF a narrow and obscure Entry
Glare of Light suddenly breaks upon you beyond
what the Avenue at first promised; and thou
sand Beauties OF genius of cha. acter like SO
many gaudy Apartments pouring et once upon
the Eye. diffuse ana throw themselves out To
the Mind" Theobald's figure Is a Ettle dubious
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28
CRITICAL PIONEERS.
Some Readers of Shakespeare in the
Eighteenth Century.

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ESSAYS ON SHAKE
svo pp. kill 35a The Macmillan Company.
The reader of Shakespeare is unconscious. as
he reads. Of owing anything TO those who have
turned the pages of the poet before him Yet,
as he puts the book down. the words that spring
to his lips are apt to be the words which some
man of genius had laid at the feet OF the
greatest genius of them all Coleridge. speaking
of myriad minded Shakespeare" tnvents
phrase happier than any which we could invent
for ourselves. Matthew Arnold gives perfect
EXPIRE ssion to a mood which has overtaken
countless readers of Shakespeare when he ad-
dresses the poet in the deeply significant words.
"Others abide our question. thou art free
With reflection. then. We recognize what We owe
to the readers of other generations. and. OF
course we feel vaguely that are indebted to
divers editors Of the plays and poems. But
even when are most appreciative of the men
Of the past, we are apt to assume that they all
belonged to the nineteenth century. Professor
Smith would remind Us that there were Shake
speariaus in the eighteenth century who. it
they were not SO rich in phrases as their follow
eTs. nevertheless estimated the poet at his true
value and exercised substantial influence upon
the growth of his fame. His collection of nine
essays 10y as many men of letters of the
eighteenth ceutury-RoWc. Dennis Pope Theo-
bald Hammer. Warburton. Johnson. Farmer and
MCrgIuu-Shou,d do much to revise the opinions
Of many readers as to the intellectual outlook q
century which. learning every day.
has been Ions, misunderstood
one explanation Of the neglect into which
these critics have fallen lies the surface Of
their writings. They are not repeat. rich in
phrases; YOU will not find even in Pope. whose
gift of epigram in verse ought 70 have PER
sisted when he wrote about Shakespeare
in prose, the magical sayings characteristic or
the great authors of the nineteenth century who
have dealt with Shakespeare The earlier writ
ers do not seem TO have been quite so nobly en-
kindIed as were the makers OF modern criticism.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28
@e Nttu'DorJt gribarar&
ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT.
SUNDAY. AUGUST %, 1904.

Mr.. @. X. Shorter does not agree with the
gentleman who has lifted up his voice in scorn
of 1.-The people who are interested il FitZ
Gcrald's Omar Khayyam' that they have
formed club to tell one another how much
they have enjoyed that poem" We are treated
TO the names OF the distinguished people who
have Joined these Omarites around the festive
board. and we are told that the list could be
greatly extended. No doubt but Mr. Shorter
ought not to be angry with the scornful one.
His sense of humor ought to tell him that there
is. after all, something rather droll about a
club formed so that the members may tell one
another how much they delight in the works OF
i particular poet Ne one has anything but
admiration for those societies which are organ
lied by serious students OF writer's like Shake
spearc, Dante or Chaucer. But the mere poeti-
cal love feast has something in it tnat must
almost inevitably excite the mirth of the out
slider. Consider how the Browr' lgites have
brought their idol into ridicue and how the
fame OF Burns has been furnished through the
post-prandial solemnities OF humorless diners.
gathered together in all good faith to do him
hOngr. We wonder II Mr.. Shorter himself
would not admit that the dining Omaritcs whom
lie defends have really had some influence I'm
making the whole subject Of Fitz Gerald's Per
sian poet bore7
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28

years. he says "amd many difficulties. tho
greatest rtdicule the most impudent msrcpre-
sentation. the most savage abuse that every
white livcred critic could thInk Of he fZoll1
did not once swcrve from the view he expressed
in lie Gnulois' about the time when he
signing his contract with Lacro!X: If | kept
school OF morals l would hasten to place Mad
anne Bovary" or "Germinie LaCcrteux' In my
pupils hands. convinced as am that only truth
can instruct and fortify generous souls" That
allueion TO the white Ivercd critic" is an ex-
celent Illustration OF Mr. Vlzetelly's tone. An
other Is provided by his pages the moral
lapse Of Z0Ia's later years. pages in which he
seeks TO soften the readers Judgment by drag
gine In the names OF q dozen other uotabiities
whose conduct has been questioned and by max
Ing destinations where he fears to give the
name. But we do not read the book for sIr.
Vizetelly's views Zoa's character or works:
we read 1t simply for the sake OF the facts it
contains
II is especially interesting I'm its account of
the French writer's hoyhood and youth Fran
co.'s Zola, his father. was an engineer who Ia
bored sturdily to provide tho town OF AK in
Provence with n good water supply. but died I'll
rewarded for his effOrts Only by continuous
litigation could his family hope TO profit by
what he had done. and In the long run recourse
10 this line OF activity had the usual result-the
Holas sank deeper and deeper into poverty.
Emile ultimately had his revenge When he
came to write the Rougon -Macuuart novels he
pictured AK In the "Plassans" OF the series
But IT was long before he could give himself that
satisfaction AS schoolboy I'm Provence hard
ship troubled his mother more than It troubled
him. and while he was still In his teens he wrote
n romance of the Middle Ages "copiousy provid-
ed with knights. Saracens and fair damsels I'm
distress" Rambling in the fields with his COM
radcs he read Victor Hugo and De Musset and
in due course he fell in love The family funds
however steadily running lower. and
though when Madame lola took him up to Paris
trved to keep him going In his studies at the
college OF St Louis. where Nisard had procured
him a free scholarship. he proved anything bur
a brilliant student and presently entered upon a
struggle for existence which must have been
nearly backbreaking Turning his back the
LycGe he took n cierkship at 60 francs month.
This proving unsatisfactory. he abandoned IL.
and since he could do nothing to support his
mother. went to live apart from her and began
In kind of glass belvedere at the top of a house
in the Latin Quarter. to live the life of n would
be literary Bohemian writing poetry and almost
starving. One of his biOgraphers shows him in
a severe winter of the early COS. "hreess. shiv-
crinr In bed. with every garment he possesses
piled his legs. and his fingers red with the
cold while he writes his verses with the stump
Of pencil" Mr.. Vizetelly thus continues the
dreary tale:
| How does he live? 1t may be asked. He himself
hardly knows. Everything Of the slightest value
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28

Every man Is entitled TO his own opinion"
runs n saying which. with many people says
a writer In THE Saturday Review" has the
air of Immediate. intuitve absolute truth"
lie points out that the right claimed Is not
founded on any competence of knowledge to
form the opinion. but is a simple. barefaced
assertion. Thus, men will dOgmatZe about the
doctrines OF rival churches without knowing any
thing about them. The case is cited of two
men who took the Office and functions Of the
Holy Spirit for their theme AT Il crisis of the
discussion one of them emphasized his opinion
with poker and broke the skull Of the other
disputant Religion is. indeed. a constant
cause for the expression of the Opinions of
ignorance" Metaphysical speculation Is an
other, and '"rhe Saturday also mentions the
bringing up of n family. THE most Ignorant
parents are well known 10 be the most
confident OF the riGhtness of their treatment OF
children" But we cannot agree with 1.-THE
Saturday" In the conclusion that the mex
pert in art though they may be sufficiently
sensitive to q certain power which arOuses
their emotion. would not for that reason agine
themselves competent to eXpatiate on the arts
tic merits Of the work" Art and even more
literature are necessarily provoking ignorant
opinions OF that fact the columns of news
papers and periodicals of a certain sort offer,
ali the year round. abundant proof
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28
THE SEDAN LETTER.
From The London Globe.


News has been received In Paris that I'm a
second hand book dealers shop. at Leghorn
there has been brought to light highly i'm
portant letter written by Napoleon III the
fatal day of Sedan. II is addressed to William
l. and is nothing less than the Identical letter
in which the defeated Emperor announces TO his
conqueror his willingness to surrender. The
text is follows:
Dear Brother: Not having been able to die at
the head of my troops. ! surrender my sword to
majesty. Your brother. NAPOLEON.
Sedan. Sept z. 1870
The letter found inside a volume dealing
with the Franco-German War.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28

IT has occurred to Mr. G.. e. Street who tells
rs all about II In 1.-The Pail Mall Magazine" that
the English novel. las know IL from Field
fng to Mr. Meredith and Mr. Hardy Is In point
or artistic significance dying. and nearly dead"
lie goes on with ObServa tons all tending to
convey the impression that fiction Is n very diff
ferent thing from what il once was because
our makers Of fiction have abandoned certain
clearly defined principles which the great novel
lists found Indispensable 1t is n plausible idea
Yet arguments OF this sort always leave us
wondering why those who advance them do
not pay attention 10 the most important fact
OF oil. the fact that good literature is not so
mnch matter Of principles. precious as they
are. as II Is one Of inspiration. 1t does not seem
10 us that contemporary fiction contrasts with
that or the past so much in It's principles as I'm
its spirit which Is rarely the spirit Of anything
but accomplished mediocrity. II is noticea bic
that whenever writer arises who has the Gle
mcnts Of genius in him. n man like Kipling for
example. or Maurice Hewlett or Joseph Conrad
lie achieves something which may not bar
monte with the works OF the classic novelists
In respect to principles. but Is none the less
potent as fiction and. apparently. none the less
certain TO survive. Good natured critics not
simply of orr novels. but Of all our prose and
of our poetry. too, are always seeking TO ex-
processes. The true explanation lies in the
tmeworn saying that the poet Is born, not
made.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28
A LOVE SONNET.
nv EDMUND SPENSER

The merry cuckoo. messenger Of spring
His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded
That warns all lovers wait upon their king
Who now is coming forth with garland crowned
With noise whereof the choir of birds resoundea'
Their anthems sweet. devised of loves praise
That all the woods their echoes back reoounded'
As If they knew the meaning of their lays
But 'rrongst them all. which did loves honour
raise,
No word was heard OF her that most it ought;
But she MS precept proudly disobeys.
And doth his idle message set at naught.
Therefore O love- unless she turn to thee
Ere cuckoo end, let her a rebel bel
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-28
EMILE ZOL1.
HIS Personality and Career De-
scribed by an English Admrer.

E,NTID zOTA NOVELIST AND REFORMER.
An Account Of His Life and Work ny Ernest
Alfred Vizctelly. Illustrated by PORTRAITS views
and facsimilcs. Octave. PIP. X, 500. John Lane
Mr. Vizetelly is a member of the family whose
name was so Conspicuously associated with the
publication Of certain of Zoa's works in Eng
land some years ago. He writes of the noVelist
as an admiring friend. His book has obviously
been prepared with devoted care. both as re-
CARDS the collection of biographical facts ana
the statement of Zolas literary attitude. and we
take it to be- in short. official From the pages
of such a publication a general atmosphere OF
critical amiability would seem to be inseparabie,
but Mr. Vizetelly is peculiarly fervid In his de-
fence of his friend over a long TERM vi
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1904-03-11
z. /. Carney.

About six months ago Mr.. +. P.
Thsgard resigned the office Of cOllec-
tor Of revenue aud after fair trial OF
strength before the democratic execu-
tive committee, Capt. f. l.. Carney
Was declared the unanimous choice of
the committee for this office aud dur
lug the short time IL mas occupied il
has given the most genera satisfac-
zion and in 50 doing he has only
measured up To the expectations of
his friends.
Temperate, industrious, methOdicsl,
conscientious, he is in every way fit
ted for success, aud as be has held the
office only for part OF term demo-
cratic custom aud tradition gives it to
him for the asking.
1t il not at all likely that he will
have any opposition.
He is making AN ideal officer.