The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-12

Captain John S. Wise. whose new book, 'The Lions Skin.'' breaks a literary silence of some years, is one of the best known figures in American political and literary life. A member of one of the oldest and proudest vir- ginia families, he was born in Brazil while his father, Hon. Henry A. Wise. was United States Minister to that country. Subsequently his father be- came Governor of Virginia and prac- tically left the Governors chair to lead . division of the Confederate army. Captain Wise was a cadet at Virginia Military Institute (the Confederate West Point) when the war broke out and fought with the cadets at the his- tcric battle of Newmarket. After the war he became Republican and was elected to Congress. He was also United States District Attorfiey. His campaign for Governor in 1885 was one of the most stirring in the history of Virginia politics. Since 1888 he has resided in New York, where he prac- tices law. brilliant wit, a popular after dinner speaker, and successful in his profession, he has found time in busy life to write books. The End of an Era" went into fourteen editions. His latest work, The Lions Skin.' is . new kind of reconstruction story in which fact and fiction are ingeniously tnterwoveh. It discusses the negro problem frankly and impressively. It is really a dramatic picture of great events with a romantic background.
 
 The Real Jefferson Davis is one of the much talked of books of the sea- son. It Is by Langdon Knight. MT. Knight tells his story in most pleas Ing style. Particularly he is impor- tial Mir. Knight is Southerner by birth, he has lived long at the North. Impressions and their value his inter- pretation is a correct one. The book will be carefully reviewed in later number of The Advertiser.
 The Monks Treasure is a romance of the Isles of Greece by George Hor- ton, who wrote Like Another Helen" Mr. Horton knows the fair land of which he writes as do few Americans. He served as consul at Athens under President Cleveland. And now, reap pointed by President Roosevelt largely in recognition of his literary talent, he Is just starting again for the Gates of the morning. That he gives his story the movement of a Panhard car readers will be ready to own.
 MT. Kehoe and the Cheese Knife.
 Shortly after his return to New York Van Buren had his first New York law case. Several of Commissioner Mahoney's district committeeman were saloon keepers. One of these, Kehoe by name, had a costly place on Sixth Avenue, and still owned the saloon on Cherry Hill where he began as bar tender. Kehoe came to Van Buren's once one day and aired grievance. Because the business demanded 1t, he explained (though the real reason was that he felt more at home and com fortable in the old place), he was in the habit of spending one or two days in the week on Cherry Hill. Some years before, on one of these visiting days. 6 longshoreman had persisted in eating a disproportionate amount of free lunch. "A ffve-cent drink doesn't entitie you to a course dinner" Mir. Kehoe had objected. The longshore- man retorted with a few choice epithets such as are customary on Cherry Hill.
 T couldn't lower myself to his voca- bulary," MT. Kehoe told Van Buren, ''so just stepped from behind the bar and kicked him out the door, He stands on the steet blasphemin' me, and not wantin' to soil my hands with him further, picked up one of the knives from the lunch table and prodded him . little in the shoulder Some skin lawyer gets hold of him and has him sue me for ten thousand dollars for that little prod. My lawyer goes and dies this week. and the case Is comln' up for trial next Tuesday,
 Upon investigation Van Buren found that MT. Kehoe had come. out, knife in hand, and cahsed the longshoreman the length of block. While the longshoreman was running Mir Kehoe inserted the knife half its length Back of his shoulder-blade. The man was in the hospital some weeks. and it was by a narrow margin he did not die. As it was, his shoulder was crippled and he could not work at his trade He had sued for damages for the in- jury. There were thirty or forty wit nesses and no disputing the facts. MT. Kehoe had lost his temper, and, as a.