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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-22

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Don't be imposed upon by taking
substitutes offered for Foley's Honey
and Tar. Sold by Chas. McNab, 400
Riverside avenue.
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Foley's Honey and Tar positively
cures all throat and lung diseases.
Refuse substitutes. Sold by Chas.
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On the floor at the Pfister?
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The place for amusement is at the
Pfister.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-10
A NoveIist's Experience.

New York Tribune.
A certain novelist who submitted a man.
uscript to a London publisher the other
day had q quaint experience. She received
in due course, from the firm to which she
had sent her work, this brief but pointed
communication: 'I have pleasure in in
forming you that / have now come to this
manuscript, and if you are prepared to
send me the sum of los cd payable in ad-
vance, / shall have your work thoroughly
read by expert reader, and in the event
Of his approving it, l shall be pleased to
lay before you a scheme for its publica-
ton" 1t must have been a shock TO the
novelist in question to receive this propo-
sition, and it is not surprising that she
Immediately sent Ii off to a sympathetic
editor. Everybody knows that most pub
fishers are so keenly alive to the possibility
of finding g treasure that they are more
than willing to read, at their own expense,
practically all the material that reaches
them. But few people realize what an i'm
mense amount of worthless stuff is put
on paper every year by mediocre writer's
who dream of achieving literary fame. We
not sure that the necessity of paying
a small fee would discourage all these dab
sters, but 1t might give Come of them pause
ard that you'd be blessing. 1t would
be a fine thing If some inventive soul were
to arise with just the right scheme for the
matchmaking of would-be authors at just
the right moment.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-10
The Writing Process.

Frank NJ. Colby, in the Bookman.
1t is not pleasant to ascertain that Poe's
Raven would not have been written If he
had not happened to observe that Never
more would make a musical refrain and
"Lenore'' rhymed with II. and that he
brought in the raven only because nothing
but a raven would be at all likely TO etacu
late "nevermore at regular intervals.
cept possibly a parrot, and a parrot would
not rhyme with LenOre. POe's description
ing wrong-end-to. Nor do we like TO read
how Burke generously tinkered poor Crab
be's poem, and Johnson lent his heavy hand
and Crabbe accepted everything as more
likely to beguile the public forgetting by
that time that he had started out with
anything of his own. But while the most
gifted sometimes sink to it, the merely
clever never rise above it. and they leave
you wondering whether there is anything
in them that the public did not put there.
That Is why Miss Emily Dickinson
claimed that she liked a look of agony be-
cause she knew it was real. and why Kings
ley advised everybody to be only good and
'let who will be clever" and why Hotspur
called poetry the forced gait of a shutting
nag" and why sometimes, after a brilliant
literary meeting, where authors read their
papers, our heart goes out to the simple
and spontaneous, natural and single-minded
cow, who never fiourishes her tail for our
sakes. but to remove from her actual
launches an authenticated fly The literary
emotions are so seldom authenticated in the
secondary ranges of art.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-10
January Atlantic.

January Atlantic.
The best that be said of Thoreaus
regimen of beans is, not that that immortal
diet merely wholesome cheap, or
even that it was transmitted into delightful
literature-but that Thoreau liked it, He
was catering for himself and to himself
When Byron came of age he provided the
conventional roast OK and ale for his ten
ants in honor of his majority, and then be-
took himself to London where he dined
alone upon his favorite delicacy, ham and
eggs. He catered for his public at New
stead and to himself in town. But the only
editors who permit themselves such solitary
luxury of personal indulgence are the young
men who own, write and print the queer
little AK magazines with still queerer
names. They give no hostages to fortune
except paper, printers ink and time. If
you would seek better analogy to the real
editorial function follow some excellent cit
izen of Baltimore, or of a foreign city where
marketing bears as yet no social stigma,
as he journeys TO the public market with
basket upon his careful arm, intent upon
selecting a dinner for his family.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-10
Literary Notes.

Readers of Wilkie Collins, that master of
absorbing narrative, will be glad to hear
that a new edition of 1.-The Woman in
White" is being printed 1t will contain
a photogravure portrait. a biographical
note and sixteen Illustrations.
Alfred Ollivant, author Of Bob, Son of
Battle" Is said to have a Literary con-
science" And to cultivate it at the ex-
pense of his own pocketbook. He was not
and less satisfied with it later. Although
according to the publishers, the book sold
well. he insisted that it was not worthy
of publishers, together with the plates, and
has destroyed them.
Mrs. Margaret Deland, author of DIR
Lavendar's People" began her literary ca
a poet. She riding in a Bos-
ton horse-car when her first inspiration
came TO her. She was carrying a package
and on its paper covering she hastily jOt-
ted down the verses. friend, meeting
her by accident, read the scrawl on the
wrapping-paper, and was pleased with it
that she begged Mrs. Deland to allow her
to send the verses TO a publisher In New
York. Greatly TO the poets surprise, a
check for fifteen dollars was returned to
her. For a long time Mrs. Deland kept
the check a souvenir.
The late Hugh Stowell Scott, famous as
Henry Seton Merriman." author of THE
Sewers" The Vultures," and other novels.
was a man Of extraordinary reserve and
self-cOmmand. The following story is told
of him. His father who was a director of
the London Graphic, had an unaccountaable
objection to his sons following a literary
career, and tried TO make a business man
of him. His son wrote in secret under the
pseudonym, and, although his work was
successful, he never betrayed his literary
identity to his father On one occasion his
father placed before him one of the young
authors own stories, saying: Now If you
could write a book like this, il would be
another thing altogether" And still the
son kept silence
''I have only one rule to work by" said
the late George Gissing one day, after a
conversation on the methods of literary
production. lit is simply to write of what
/ know best This principle Is vital, The
life of literature. If my stories are pessi-
mistic, ii is only because my life is such
Ny environments were sordid. the people
were sordid. and my work is but reflection
of il all. Sadness? My books are full of it,
The world is full OF Ii. Show me the mas
terpieces Of art. literature. or music and |
shall show you creations palpitating with
sadness. All, the toll for the webb und
kind. how IL fashions mems lives Mine
has been but the common lot. No use say
ing much about IL. / find my little happi-
ness in the fields in summer. and am con-
tent when 1 think of the toiling millions.
twelve miles away who never see a blue
sky, or feel the earth yield beneath their
feet
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-10
AS WE PASS ALONG.

IF you want to make your horse love
you. give him an apple every day." re-
marked a business man who never gets
into his wagon without
The Pony and first patting his old
the Apple. white horse on the
nose. Just feel old
Ben's nose; it is as soft as velvet, and
he's more than fifteen years old. Horses
have more sense, in some directions. than
some people, and they all love apples.
when / was a boy" the man said TAX
ing up the lines to drive Off. I'VE had an
old yellow pony 'claybank.' as they were
called. named Nick. Somebody out in
the Indian country sent him TO my father.
Everybody had fruit trees in their back
yards in town in those days, and we had
twelve good apple trees Old Nick used 10
be turned out To eat grass I'm the yard.
and ne ate apples. too-you can bet he did
Nobody could find an apple in the grass
while Nick was out. Nearest the house was
fine apple tree. the Summer Queen We
all liked that apple better than any other
and when one was heard To fall from the
tree, there would be a wild scamper among
the children IN the house. The cook, Mary
Ann. would run. too, all trying TO be first
on the ground and bear away the prize ap-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-10
Herbert Spencer.
London Maj

London Mail
Herbert Spencer was at one time a close
friend of the late Mr.. Grant Allen, whom
he reckoned among his disciples. In those
days Grant Allen was living in Dorking,
and Spencer was an inmate of the house.
He constituted his disciple his literary ex-
ecutor. But unhappily Grant Allen, with
he was forever applauding, 'verte6 from
individualism turned his back the mas
ter's lessons and found the Fabian Society.
1t would be interesting to know who re-
placed him as executor in Mr. Spencer's
will.
It is related of the philosopher that he
joined well-known Picadilly club in order
enjoy his favorite game of billiards.
Finding, however, that there was not al
ways an opponent ready to hand on his
visits to the clubhouse, he suggested that
the committee should elect his secretary
in order that he might always have an an
tagonist at his disposal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-10
JuveniIity of Play and Novel.

New York Mail and Express.
Once or twice we have remarked how
extraordinarily girlish is the reading. on
the stage and in the novel, of the phe-
nomena of contemporary American life.
We should like add now that it is be-
coming young-girlish Femininity in its
first long frock is the congenial theme of
the great luminaries of American ltera-
ture The maximum age of the heroine
of successful drama fiction is nineteen,
and ii is growing less with every season.
There is very little left except the exploita-
ton of what conservative old folks with
stomach tor realities pass up as puppy
love"
'.Middle-aged love" is admittedly diff
cult proposition, but even the love of
maid in her early twenties is beyond the
power of a modern author to portray, or
beyond his appraisal of the preferences of
his audience. Richard Harding Davis start
ed his Soldiers of Fortune with a grown
up young lady his heroine, but right
in the midst of the book he basely aban-
doned her for her younger sister. The girl
OF the short American story twitterS
through a Dolly Dialogue" with all the
impudence and smartness of the middle
teens; she impresses you as just beyond
the spanking period. and yet sorely in need
of the ministrations of the maternal slip
per.
1t is even worse on the stage The vet
eran portrayer of emotional woman roles
has been shouldered aside by the ingenue
The stage heroine is all pout and dimples
and little baby tricks; she wins by her
quaint girlishness, but she may need a
spanking the worst sort. Whether she be
a Dorothy Vernon" or Pretty Sister of
Jose or My Lady Peggy or one of The
Three Little Maids or Merely Mary Ann"
her charm is the half cruel charm of i'm
petuous youth. her range the narrow range
OF her untried years.
We like her. all Of Us. and yet we come
away with the feeling that we have spent
an hour in a nursery. We are grateful
TO Clyde Fitch and Maxine Elliott that in
Her own Way" they have given US a
woman heroine who owns TO thirty and
whose soul has the depth and beauty that
come only with the knowledge OF life
What will come OF IL ALL as the playwright
and the novelist drift farther away from
realities? Is the republic OF letters TO re-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-10
The Instinct for the story.

saturday review.
Our earliest instinct is to ask for a story;
our latest, TO tell one unmasked. Human
life is bounded at either end by a phrase:
"Once upon a time" at one end, THAT re-
minds me- at the other. Above the first
instinct we rise gradually, gradually de-
clinging to the second. (Nhen L say 1--WE"
i refer not to mankind in general; for most
men, as 1 shall suggest later, never grow
up, except in a physical sense. we must
be taken merely a convenient term for
the less imperfect minority. Not that the
narrative sense ever dies in us. Only that
in the plenitude of powers we are not
satisfied with a story that is nothing more
than a Story-a narrative for narration S
sake. The mind of a child is all agape for
facts; for ii is empty, and nothing is so
quickly filling, so easily assimilable, S a
dish of facts. Facts of fiction are preferred
by the child to actual facts, because they
satisfy also it's strong imaginative sense.
Its moral and intellectual senses are still
in allegiance. Deduce from any story "a
moral or an idea, and the child runs away,
rudely. There lies the difference between
us and it. Our moral and intellectual
senses are 1ouriShing, and by their
strength our imagination is proportionately
weakened. Grimm is not enough for us.
Our moral sense cries aloud for Hans An
dersen. Dumas leaves us cold. Our mind
needs Balzac. 1t Is not enough for us that
once upon time there three princess
eS or three musketeerS who suffered or did
SOIle queer lUluRS. we Wdtll lHOSt
to illustrate TO symbolic to mean some
thing, to corroborate upset some theory
that we have formed, to quicken our mind
and affect our conduct. Such are the
prime needs of our maturity. Comes Time,
moving away with his scythe our intel
lectual and moral curiosity; nor does he re-
store us our old imagination. He crops us
bare of all but experience. Things that
have happened-especially (old cyclists
that we are-the things that have happened
to ourseives-are the only things that rouse
us from our lethargy. "Anecdotage'' is an
ugly phrase. Second childhood" less
harsh. is not less exactly descriptive. For
our last state-the state where narrative
is absolute despOt-was our first state, too.
Infancy, maturity and ED occur TO arts
not less surely than to And similar are
the signs on the parallels. The infancy
of the novel was in the tales that the cave
men uttered to one another over their fires.
It's maturity is in the philosophic fiction Of
Mr. Meredith. Its ED will be when novel
lists write just such stories were NUT
tered by the cave men, or perhaps l should
say, rather when nOVelists write nothing
but their own "reminiscences. So with
drama. Dramas infancy was when Attic
peasants danced round an altar in field.
caroling legends of Dionysius. Came
Aeschylus, that moralist, and Euripdes,
that philosopher, and made the maturity of
Attic drama. Shakespeare similarly ma
tured English drama from the pools of
blood and claps of thunder that were all
IL had offered to childish eyes and ears.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-10
The Young Mother.

The Host lifts high the candle-light-
Out in the dark she waits before
Now who is this at mid OF night,
Comes faring TO my door,"
With rushes is the chamber set;
The house is sweet without within;
For II may be she will forget
The place where she hath been
But lonely. lonely In the room.
With strange eyes looks she all about;
She sees the broken bOughs in bloom,
The red wine poured out
They crowd around her where she stands,
The children and the elders there:
They put the cup within her hands;
They break the loaf so fair.
oh. what to her that they are kind
oh, let the tears come like tidei
She cannot keep from out her mind
The son for whom she died,
-Iizette Woodwork Reese in the Smart Set.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-10
In the Literary World
Books Men Matters
theL literary Profes sion

enter an era whose landmarks are the girl
creations of THE Duchess" the "Babettes
and "Fleurs de Lis of comic opera. and the
Sleeping Beauties and Princess Charming of
Juvenile fiction?
There IS bright spot. The magazine
artists and illustrators have not succumbed
TO the craze for baby linen. Their several
girl types. with their proud faces and
proud, tired eyes, and the long, sweeping
lines of their figures, have all seen twenty.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-10

s fact, said the young novel
list John Fox, jr). once upon a
time, says a writer in the Literary
World, that a stern sense OF
duty will make men courageous
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-10

he reason Alonzo Rust sold his
right ear was just because of his
ALFRED laziness. There never
was but one man lazier than
Alonzo, and that man died be-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-10

pie. But, bless you. old Nick was on the
lookout for the Summer Queen, too; he
would rush for the apple when one drop
ped, on mad gallop. and he generally got
it. Horses are smart, they are. Get up,
old Ben-get up"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-10
Experiences of Charity Workers
Inda Comedy Mixed with Pathos
sof Deeper Poo

Re WOMEN OF the city who do
charitable work-and there are a
great many Of them-nOw and
then come across cases which
have something OF am amusing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-10

Along about the first of the year the
average bill collector finds life decidedly
uphill business, so far as the financial
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-10

The worst characteristic of comedy. 1t
must be conceded, is its irrepressible ten
dency to trench on the territory of tragedy.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1904-11-03
ABSURD REPUBLICAN CLAIMS.
New Yorls state Turning tudoubt-
eddy 30 Parker aud tserrick.

Republican politicians are max
ing the most cXtraya@ant claims ms TO
how New York will vote in November.
They ridicule the cry of "Odeliism" ana
say Roosevelt will sweep the state"
only fools or persons ignorant Of the
situation will be mislcd 10y claims 50
papably insncerc. New York is a,
certainly Democratic this year as
Georgia. The attitude of the press OF
New York City is alone sufficient 10
satisfy any reasonable man where Sew
York stands. Tho only daily papers
supporting Roosevelt are the Tribune.
sun. Press. Evening Mail. Evening
Globe ana two brooklyn papers Of
purely local influence, ana not mucn
ut that.
Tho papers advocating the election
of Parker are the Herald, World,
American. Times, Stats XeitunA.
News. Evening World, Mor@cn .lourna,
Evening Post. Telegraph. Evening
journal. Courier DIES Etatr Unis aul
Telegram. Outside of New York tity
the Democratic and independent press
is solid FOR Parker
The betting, although there is hnt
little of il, is ut even money rs to the
Presidential ticket, and at odds of 10
10 I in favor of the Democratic STATE
ticket.
New Workers all know how the state
is going. If others have doubts, Il short
visit IN New York would dispel them
Parker will win the states electoral
votes. and nil Of "OdelIS creatures
viii he driven into the Hudson Ijy-
or" rs the sun has expressed u WISH
they should be. The only question is
rs to the size of the Democratic ma
in1.ilN
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1904-11-03
BUYING MORE POWER. }
WHAT THE SUPPORT OF TRUSTS FOR
ROOSEVELT MEANS.
Large Registration Throughout the Coun'
try Shows the People Ara
Deeply lnteres'el.

The Republican National Committee
| claims of walkovcr for Roosevelt are
based simply OH this fact and suppose
ton, to wit: On the fact that the
great trusts and railroad combines are
supporting Roosevelt and pouring
| money into his campaigns chest, and
OH the suppoSition that with this mon
| ey the Presidency can be bought 1t
is this fact and this SuppOsition alone
| that Cortclyou and Scott base their
claims" on, and it IS on these claims
that Wall Street gamblers base thcir
| judgment and the odds they OFFER III
| betting
Hut can the Presidency be bought
outright? That game was tried III
1851 and in ls92 and did not work. It
was successful in 1855, when Matt
Quay, the arch corruptouist of the Re-
publican party, aided by David Mar
tin, product of Quayism, handled
! tile money contributed by the protect
| ed interests of the country To defeat
! Cleveland. 1t was played SucccSslul-
! ~ in 1850, when BLOCKS Of Five
| Dudley bought up the "tloatets' in
Indiana with crisp new bank notes.
But to buy the Presidency in 1904
is different proposition, The Demo
cratic party is organized and united
this year. and it viii have the practi-
cally solid support of independent Vot-
crs. The Democratic organization in
every dcbatablc State is aggressive,
and determined that Republican brh-
cry and fraud shall he exposed and
prevented wherever possible. The
! great registration in nearly all parts