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l. 1. Franks. deputy United States
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land fraud cases. He Is out on s5. 900
bonds.
The daily tribune., 1907-11-12

It Is known that william Mason,
one of the men connected with the
murder of Joe Walker at Hesperus,
purchased gun the night before the
shooting and made the remark that
he expected TO have trouble.
The daily tribune., 1907-11-12

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Wednesday. Nov. 18th. N.62
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"JuRping On" a King
And Making Retractions
pecial Correspondence of The Star.


LONDON, October 80, 1907
The fallen Thunderer" as the Times
is termed in these days of it's degeneracy,
las got itself into a mess over Queen
Victoria's Letters The book is pub
lished in three volumes by John Murray,
and the price at which 1t is sold to the
public is three guineas-$15.75. John
Murray is one of the publishers who re-
fuse to supply books to that annex OF
the Times. the Times Book Club" The
Times, however, managed to secure 21C
copies of the book for its club on the day
it was published. Not content with this
victory over Mr.. Murray, it published {,
savage attack upon him for charging
three guineas for the book. and accused
him of having exploited the great per
sonality of Queen Victoria for his own
ends and coined the national interest in
her doings for his own enrichment into
thirty-two pieces of silver" After being
thus compared to Judas. he was further
held up to scorn for having. by his eX
orbitant greed, deprived numberlesS loyal
and patriotic widows and orphans of the
nestimahle privilege of peruSng the pre-
cious volumes.
1t now turns out that the king and not
John Murray is the proprietor of the book.
It's price was fixed by the king, who re-
tains the copyright. Mr. Murray publish
ing the work on commission. Therefore.
it Is his majesty and not Mr.. Murray who
is hit by the Times with its charges of
extortion and all the rest of the scornful
rhetoric ostensibly aimed at the publisher.
Now the Times prides itself above all
things on it's loyalty. and 1t has lost no
time in seeking to purge itself OF lese
majestic by retracting and apolosizing.
No doubt the king is making a tidy
sum out Of the book. for IL IS selling well
but his profits are by no means what
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-17

information given to him by his father
would have made no appeal. 1t was gen.
orally understood at the time that the
great novelist had passed on to his eldest
son his plans for the completion of Ed
WIN Brood" and in consequence Charles
Dickens, tr5fwas. after his fathers death,
beset with offers to finish the novel. These
he refused, as it was the feeling of the
family at that time that it would be a
kind of dissertation for any one else to
assume the mantle of Elijah. 1t might
seem strange that Forster, Dickens BIZ
ographer. knew nothing about the circum-
stances, but this is to be explained by the
fact that Charles Dickens. jr., and John
Forster were not on good terms Although
the facts were we'll known to all the
members of the family of Charles Dick
ems, jr., apparently they were never COM
municated to the other members of the
family. CHARLES OGDENS.
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constantly of him, and he always said that
never surly in his manner and if pressed
for an explanation of what he was writing
by one he loved he would at once gravely
refuse to give it. or If he was IN one of
his rare communicative moods he might
suddenly. and, to his companions surprise
threw away his shy reserve and become
perfectly frank and confidential. l
imagine that it was owing to some such
quick change of feeling that my father
was enabled to give the closing scene to
his play of Edwin Brood. and this brings
me to the conversation which l mentioned
at the beginning of our interview.
1T came about In this way: One after
noon some three weeks before my grand
father died my father was at Gad's Hill,
and. as so often happened, he and my
grandfather started off on one of those
long rambling walks which were the chief
recreation my grandfather allowed himself
when he was, as then, hard at work
If. indeed, recreation they could be called
for it was. I believe. during these walks
that the creative brain was most active
and although he liked to have some con-
genial companion with him, 1 frequently
heard my father say that often the whole
walk would be taken In complete silence
my grandfathers lips However, this
special occasion was not one of silence
1t was then that my father heard in detail
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the definite scheme for the end of the
book, my grandfather also telling him
that when he first began this work he had
a slightly different end in view, but that
as the book developed certain definite
alterations became necessary with regard
to the final tragedy. He also added that
my father was absolutely the only person
to whom these facts were known.
The ring which plays important a
part in the book was not mentioned by
my grandfather on this occasion, but my
father was under the impression that it
was to hold the original place in the story
the murdered body as that of Edwin
brood. AS, however, my grandfather did
not touch upon this point. my father has
not emphasized 1t in his play"
x
Some prominent members of the organi.
cation of Dickens lovers, called the Dick
ems Fellowship, with whom / have con-
v rsed about the matter. are disposed TO
he skepticai concerning the statement that
he intended to end the story. They say II
IS almost incred bic that the younger
Dickens should have had authoritative
knowledge on a subject that the whole
literary world was specializing about, and
have refrained from making his knowledge
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-17
DAUGHTER OF DICKENS TELLS END
OF 1.-THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN BROOD

BILE. But on the very day he was taken
i'll, the day before his death, he announced
at the luncheon table that he hoped he
had overcome this difficulty, and he re-
turned to his work in gay spirits
In the curious prOviso made in his
agreement with Messrs. Chapman and
Hall relating to Edwin Drood-the first
tme any such proviso had been made in
agreements between himself and his pub
Hshers-wc certainly see that some vague
premonition of impending death was in
his mind. and later on signs were not
wanting to show that this pres ointment
was constantly with him. and one cannot
h H. feeling how painfully he must have
desired TO finish tn story which. had he
but known it. was gradually but surely
undermining the strength and devotion
which he ungrUdgingly bestowed upon 1t
every day OF his closing life.
OF course, all l can tell you must be
from hearsay, for I scarcely remember
my grandfather, but my father spoke
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-17
Housekeeping on the Riviera.

This is a practical descript on of house
keeping on the Riviera. "Pract!car' in
that setting looks odd | wish | could
say that we lived merrIy under the op N
sky and pulled figs md grapes and dates
for oura natural lnp tit :. ocaas iond!Iy
catching a casual fish as i. swan merrily
by. That would +. IN h mnny with the
landscapes, but we didn't DO Il, really.
We paid rent and K IT an account OF our
expenses.
All through D cembcr and January we
lived at a hotel. Their IL many excel
lent ones in MentOne-aHy that !taad.cker
recommends ar good, but none are so
very. very che From len to fourt en-
francs day nj he ca culatad Mini
mum rates alw - mean room out of
the sun and tn. san is essential on the
Riviera. Rates are h-l t from early
January to the L. - March. but 1T M
here observe that HI. spring months are
the most beautiful ard com!ortabla
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pubifc-especialIy in view Of the fact that
he could have made much money out of It.
But such reticence on his part, extraordi-
nary as it may appear, really proves
nothing in face of the evidence that ne did
possess that knowledge Miss Dickens
told me that he made no secret of it in
his own family. Her brother, Charles, and
her sister. Mary. heard him talk about it
on several occasions. From each of them
have obtained statements confirming
that given me by Miss Ethel Dickens.
Miss Dickens reference to the indica-
tons that her grandfather had some pre-
monitions of impending death afforded by
his agreement for the publication of his
last work should perhaps be explained
At his own request he had clause in
serted in his agreement with his pub
fishers, Chapman & Hall, providing for
satisfactory pecuniary settlement between
them and his executors in case he should
die during the composition of the said
work Of the Mystery Of Edwin Brood :"
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Sealing Wax.
From the London Chronicle.

The mention of the disuse of sealing wax
sets a correspondent wondering on the
matter of brown paper and string. How
many households depend entirely for these
on parcels received. the purchase of them
scarcely being thinkable. The way in
which we use and reuse brown paper and
string-bandying them back and forth by
carrier and parcel post-reminds those
who think of the matter of the inhabitants
of famous place who earned a livelihood
by taking in each others washing! What
tying together of short bits of string to
make one long piece. what OVERLAPPING of
smaller sheets of worn brown paper to
make them embrace a substance too large
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,votes himself to bringing Jasper to

devotes himself to bringing Jasper to
Justice.
There is no space to mention the numer-
Gus magazine articles on the subject that
have been published from time to time,
but the reader will want to know what
Dickens intended should be the fate of
Edwin brood. The answer to that ques-
ton, as revealed by the play, Is that
Jasper did murder brood. Which shows
| that all-or nearly all-of those who have
| tried to reconstruct the conclusion of the
| Mystery from the clues left by Dickens
have been baffled by him, and that he was
| equal to the task he had set himself
| The play, which l have been permitted
| to read, is good, sound, old-fashloned
melodrama, ending in a weird form of
death for Jasper. 1t was written subse-
| uuent to Charles Dickens, jr.'s, tour In
| the United States in a series of readings
| from his fathers works, and was done In
| collaboration with the late Joseph Hatton,
with the idea of meeting the requirements
| of E. S. Willard. 1t was sent over to
the United States, and was, l believe,
actually put in rehearsal there. but for
some reason or other was never pro-
duced, and was pigeonholed and never
came to light again until few weeks ago,
Just before Joseph Hatton's death.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-17
Forbidden Fruit.

Translated for Transatlantic Tales From Meggen-
dorfer Batter.
The Farmer-"Don't know what's the
matter Beer dcn'f taste so ID to me Got
to go to the doctor and have him order
me not to touch 1t: then III Ike il again.
maybe"
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The queer thing about it was that the
late Charles Dickens, jr., never made the
slightest capital out of the fact that the
play contained the ending of the story as
his father had planned 1.-THE one great
fact that would have made the play in
stantly marketable. He was a peculiarly
reserved and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS man,
to whom the financial Importance of the
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From speokdom emanated the next at
tempt. 1t was bulky volume Of 500
pages entitled The Mystery of Edwin
brood Complete" 1t was sent forth to a
skeptieal world as the work of Charles
Dickens spirit. aided and abetted by a
medium of Brattleboro, VT. 1t abounded
in inexplicable blunders and grammatical
vagaries. 1t brought Edwin brood back
to life and dealt out retributive justice to
Jasper by depriving him of his reason and
consigning him to a madhouse.
In the assurance that no one could pos
sibly go one better" than a solution of
the Mystery by the ghost of its author,
America gave up constructing sequels to
Dickens work after this and his own
countryfok took up the game. A woman
of some literary reputation in the north
of England, writing under the queer pen
name of Gillian Vase" issued a three
volume conclusion Of the unfinished work
under the title "A Great Mystery Solved"
There again brood escapes from the tomb
to which Jasper consigned him. and the
villain makes a dramatic exit by COM
| hitting suicide in Jail.
Richard A. Proctor the astronomer,
| wearying of his studies of the mysteries
of the heavens, solaced himself by study
| ing Dickens mundane mystery. His specu-
lations were published under the title
| Watched by the Dead: Loving Study Of
Dickens Half-told Tale" The watcher is
Edwin brood. who. escaping from the
| death which Jasper had planned for him.
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Needless though this clause seemed at
the time, It's sad pertiHency was proved
by his death at Gad's Hill on the 9th OF
June, 1870, when he had written the manu-
script of only six of the twelve numbers
that We're to complete the book. The
greater part of the previous day he had
spent working upon it in the chalet,
gift from his friend Charles Fechter, the
actor. which had been erected in the
grounds. In the study there he penned the
last words that he ever wrote on the
Mystery"
He was late leaving the chalet" says
his biographer, John Forster. but before
dinner, which was ordered at o'clock,
with the intention of walking afterward in
the lanes, he wrote some letters
and dinner was begun before Miss Ho-
garth saw, with alarm, a singular ex-
preston of trouble and pain in his face.
For an hour he then told her. he had
been very H." but he wished dinner to go
on. These were the only coherent words
uttered by him. He died at 6:10 o'clock on
the succeeding day, but during the twenty
four hours that elapsed between his seiz-
ure and his death there had never been a
gleam of hope.
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When Dickens started writing The
Mystery of Edwin brood his position as
the greatest of English novelists was
everywhere acknowledged. He had no
rival; he could add nothing to his literary
fame. But many of the reviewers who
lavished the warmest praise on his works
said that his plots were weak; that he
could not write a book the ending of
which would not be foreshadowed long
before he reached 1t.
1t is believed he felt this criticism keen
ly. It's refutation was the task he as
signed himself In The Mystery" He
wanted to write a book that would keep
people guessing to the end as to how 1t
would turn out-a work that should be
full of battling clues, misleading sugges-
tions and trails that were crossed by red
herrings.
How well he succeeded, as far as he
went. is proven by the wide divergence
in the conclusions reached by those who
have essayed to solve the mystery" On
the question whether or no Dickens in
tended that Edwin brood should really
meet his death at the hands of the viii
lain Jasper they are hopelessly at odds.
In his reconstruction OF the plot, Andrew
Lang, of all of them the man who per
haps has the greatest reputation for
literary astuteness, defeats the villain and
brings brood back to life
From America came the earliest at
tempts to finish the unfinished half of
The Mystery" Dickens had been dead
hardly a year when John Jasper's
Secret was published in Philadelphia. 1t
was the joint production of New York
journalist, Henry Morford, and his wife
1t was first published anonymously, but
in subsequent editions it's authorship was
impudently attributed to Wilkle Collins
and Charles Dickens. the younger. De-
spite their regulations of the forgery
their names are still attached to reprints
of the book. In this Morford solution
Jasper tries to murder brood and thinks
he has succeeded. In the end he is con-
fronted by his supposed victim, and sue
cumbs to poison. For the rest of the
characters things end in conventionally
happy style.
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Alleged Fictitious Name.

The young man who called upon the police
at the eighth precinct station two days ago
and said he had accidentally shot himself
In the mouth while cleaning his revolver
as stated in The Star at the time, gave a
fictitious name and address, according to
the police. He gave his name as John
Scott and said he lived at 1880 Pierce street.
The police went to the Pierce street ad-
dress and learned that colored family
lived there. Since then they have ascer-
tained that the young mans name is Will
lam T. Murphy and that his home is al
1402 Florida avenue northwest
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bucks sold at from so to IS cents each.
The fish are in good condition and it is
said it is difficult to tell them from Poto-
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The shad are now in Florida waters and
will gradually work their way up the
coast In the middle of next month they
will be caught in North Carolina, and in
March they will appear in Chesapeake bay.
In the later par. of March or early In
April the shad and herring will start up
the Potomac, and before the middle of
April the Potomac fishing season should
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White-Eyed Man Amazes London.

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