The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-15

| old German leaned over good naturedly | and remarked, pointing to the door in | the back Of the court room, leading 1 downstairs to the prison pen. We'll. 1 MT. ---. if you want to know vat l | tinks, I tell you. Ven I see him come l in through dot leetle door back dere den I knows he's guilty"
 English Opinion of "Shining Fcrry.~ The English papers have received Shining Ferry, Mir. T. Cutler Couch's new book with remarkable
 degree of enthusiastic and yet discriri- mating praise. The Spectator says of 1t:
 The engaging and inimitable e." has again and again deserved well of his "delectable duchy." but he has sell dom. if ever, given more convincing proof of his loyalty than in his new and delightfully."- named romance. has always been an artist in nomenclature; his titles are in themselves enough to disarm criticism, and the mere name of "Shining Ferry fills the impression able reader with an agreeable anticipa- tion of something rich and strange. There have been times. we own, when
 we have thought that "o.'s" preoccupa- tion with the fantastic and eccentric side of human nature has impaired the steadiness of his outlok on life as a whole--that in kis indulgence Tn bra vura has tended to destroy the perfect
 balance between theme and ornament. and assign undue prominence to the latter. Here, however, the virtuoso never ecIipses the interpreter, and the 1 result is a most expressing blend or | geniality and picturesqueness, of ad- venture and still life.
 The Athenaeum halls the DOCK as nis | first complete novel
 | It is true that e." more than any other writer of stories at the present | day, seems to have a note of thought | full seriousness under the inexhaustible | store of humorous and pathetic fancies | with which, almost In the same sent
 ence. he can set his reader chuckling, | o make the page momentarily dim be- fore his eyes Aunt Hannah" other wise Mrs. Purchase, in the present
 book, provides plenty of occasions for the former emotion-the genial seafar- | ing lady who took charge of her broth- | CTS household on his sudden death. and | kept the house of mourning re-echo- l ing" In the words of the dairy maid, whose speech derived many forcibie | idioms from her father, the mate of a l ct ster like a laboring ship
 with a cargo of tinware.' Some will
 understand the feelings of the young woman from warwickshire when first | introduced to the strange land" where | every one talked about the weather,
 and every one addressed every one else l | such as these all of @. g" readers have long been familiar. What we wish. to l note is that in this book he seems, for | the first time, to have achieved a novel | really complete in character, incident | and construction. which ought to take | a high place in the esteem of those who | like what is, after all, the most con-
 genial class of English fiction. that | based on the vicissitudes of everyday | life.
 Here are some nuggets '-of wisdom
 from Annie Payson Calls new book,
 "The Freedom of Life" in which she
 breaches the gospel of orderly living: | If is not the work that tires you. It | is the way you do 1t.
 Concentration does not mean strain ing every nerve and muscle toward our
 work--it means dropping everything that interferes and strained nerves and l muscles constitute a very bondage of interference.
 Many people are in bondage because of doing wrong, but many more be- Cause of doing right in the wrong way
 Real freedom Is only found through obedience to law.
 There are laws for rest laws for
 work. and laws for play, which. If we
 find and follow them, lead us to quiet.
 useful lines of life. It is right for most people to sleep
 eight hours every night. The wrong
 way of doing it is to go to sleep all doubled up. and to continue to work all
 night in our sleep. instead of giving | up and resting entirely. It Is right to play and amuse our selves for rest and recreation. We l play in the wrong way when we use 1 ourselves up in the strain of playing, in | | the anxiety lest we should not win in a | | game. or when we play in bad air. To | | worry Is wicked: 1t is wickedness of a |
 kind that people often do not recognize l | as such, and they are not fully respon- 1
 sible until they do; but to prove it to | ] be wicked is an easy matter, when once | we are faced toward freedom; and. to | get over 1t. as I have said, is a matter | | of steady persistent patience. Hurry, l
 worry and irritability all come from l selfish resistance to the facts of life: | and the only armament cure for the | | waste of force and the exhausting dis |
 tress which they entail is a willing l
 ness to accept the facts. whatever | they may be in a spirit of cheerful and l | raverent obedience to law. Resistance, |
 which is the mental source of hurry, is | | equally at the root of that most harm | fuI enotion-the habit of worrying | circumstances. however difficult, are | | a1wavs-without exception-opportuni |
 ties and not limitations. Self-pity is |
 one of the states that interferes most | | eTectualy with making the right use of l
 oircunostances To pity ones self is | | va oil