The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-02-26
turning ali precedent ana an ripened philoso.I

w IN IN AetI0T9 al u
& III letters, perhaps, there has been always
the possibility Sot inBril tionnl IA
! ton Of elife In the young. T he history Of
English ature ID full OF biographl les Of the
young who have seemed to spring full fedged
Into acknowledge place in the world Of et IN
tiers. .rhe opportunity was never more posi-
j Bio than now and On ali sides there Is q dis
position to make much Of this new found
!. literary genius. s:it y si8i IS, g.8o IA
The Century company recerkly y discovered
\ In Charles ~. Stewart d promising author for 1
whose new book II predicts fame. But only q
\ few years ago Stewart was % young black
smith In western town, with as hay ideas
OF copyright and book royalties as would
have been possible to find IN his ma ttvp place.
But Stewart at 81 years old is$ q veteran
& compared with some OF those taking place
among the magazine fiction writers OF Tho
present. IIe Is sixteen years older than is
Henry Oyer, who at q years old has solo
d story to tho Century Magazine and whose
work Is to DO seen nearly every week n the
Workers Magazine. Dung oyen also g Won s'
recently ri one Of Tho Black Cat contests for u
short stories. receiving encourag n on
ali sides Tor his fiction efforts. Less than a5
year ago he was an accountant in e big CHI
cage Office, having come to Chicago from Tho
north woods Of Wisconsin. AS
a i "a. ~ D is;
Genius Wins Ea rly5 Rewnr I'd.
q ~ There Ia no doubling that the young nntn
&of the present Is coming into hAsj rewar1s
early. There Is as little doubt that II the
4 tendency continues to hold as 1t has been 4
that n OF to come into this estate early viii
BE to ca st certain SHADOW upon the accom-
N pllshmentI alt her. It Is becoming moEo5
rand more common q to expect sonnet hing fof
4 the genius " bile he lis yet young s som e OF
tho long headed observers Of another age
q have been disposed to quest Ion the longevity
a 81 genius which comes so $50 on to flower VI
Sac cbicago Tia iate Gen *. ID q. mcclure
voiced a prophecy Of the fan Of q AAlpltng
unless some ono should save him from the
almost table syndt ca ting hich has
N 50 tempted young genius in letter " but
there are indlca tons tina t3sss tpAng' g own
j self-pres ion has been omplshed by
n efusing to be so sacrifl Iced $
Under present condit Ions in the VI rld IL
4is at least safe $prpposit ion for the young
3 man to have an eye to- demo nstratttng his
abll ties IN his especial field early The world
rapidly Is getting into an Va tn u de Of e.
$pectancy regard ding hlr1.8 The child Wonder
at the piano and the violin on the stage
& has been elegated to the past Of the side-l
show period and classified wi tn the freaks
sfof@ the world. Is With t he young genlhs Ia
any par ticular field. iowever, It is expected
that this opportunities wi ripen az ickera han
4 ever before, and hat under the. stimulus Of
public expectat ton he may even press his
i Opportunities as he never coul n is i5s#
Fl ind the Day Sllfficien
III Perhaps when the whole truth has been
reached rega riding this age Of the young
\ man and It's opportuni ties. N It ha 81 no res
fleet lions upon Iii man ~ ss ripper years.
Wherever Judgment and experience S may ap-.
ply, the Judgment and experience Of ripened3
years Wi / always be moro bra BILE, the in-S
telligence being equal in the $comparisona
But frequentl ~ the thing called 3 Judgment M
in tho elder per sonage Is not more than
"Reminiscences recalling of q conditions
4 that perhaps are dead and walt eless. Y
IN The young man 81 posi- ion regarding these
material things of To-Day needs to be based
! upon the sufiicl ency of the day unto itseif:
and this IS the old man s. tional position.
If the ma gazine reading public, for instance
does not care to read a story further back
In time than the Mckinley adnainist ration
the remem bqance Of events fifty years back
can be Of no practices value to the old littern-
teur; II a builder IS putting ia q bank OF
electric elevators in a new office building. It
win alter little how the old hydraulic
carriages were adjusted and used the VIII Ito
haired MUSICIAN must recan " tn some NOR
ltiflcaton that not long ago the profession
was giving blood usefti chne in treatment for
bolls, s Il 80 is 8,s9 5