Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-08

some time. Later he went to Pueblo,
| Col. and there published the South Pueblo
published a daily known as the Evening
| Telegram.
| After disposing of his newspaper he
| went to -Danville, Kan, and engaged In
| the commercial business. but shortly
afterward he accepted a position as pro-
| fessor in a high school at Westport, a
| suburb of Kansas City. Mo. In 1894 he
| was appointed translator In the surgeon
generals Office of the War Department
in this city.
In this position it was his province to
translate medical journals of Europe and
especially Of the orient into English.
which included some thirty-three different
languages. He was a contributor to va
rious magazines and periodicals and au-
| thor of "A Department Clerk and Joessa
or So Spins the Flying World Away
His latest work was complete transla-
ton of Homer's Had. which also Included
as an appendix twenty-eight TRANSACTIONS
Of verse from as many different languages.
At the time of his unfortunate demise
Mr.. Tibbetts had partially completed an
epic poem on Gustavus Adolphus and also
a romance of cd Spain. entitled Dol
ncinO.'' He had various other literary
undertakings under way and had begun
a diary.
Extracts From His Diary.
From Mr.. Tibbetts' diary. which was
begun April "a, 1907, the following ex-
tracts are made:
Il hereby commence my diary, which
may be kept up not I feel the incli-
nation 1t will be sort of running COM
mentary of life. literature and manners.
and l have a notion to write it in some
foreign language-French. German. Span
ish, Italian. Greek, Russian or Hungarian
for practice, but will begin in English :"
He stated that as he had partially given
up chess he would have more time at his
command for other work. as it was evil
dent he would never become a first-class
player because of his carelessness; that
he did not begin to play carefully as he
should have done, and, further. that
man should be under twenty to play chess
with full vigor.
Il finished 'Apollodorus' last night. and
think i will. read the 'Lucius of Lucian'
next; wish l had more time to read
Greek writer's again, instead of grinding
away my life in the Office where 1t Is SIM
ply blank. 1 am just finishing Haxitts
Contemporary Portraits" q book I
bought twenty years ago, but never found
time to read
In speaking of GogoIs Dead Souls in
Russia" he said the writer Is one who
knows exactly what he wants to say and
says it we'll 'Hazlitt is rather frothy.
and little dependence is to be placed on
his Judgment
Comments on His 1laid.
In writing of his "Ilaid." he said: Its
pity l did not have time to put my
whole strength on this work. but l could
have made 1t better if I could have had
more time, and not been so much ex-
hausted by the grinding labors OF the day.
The original poems are probably as good
Jas anything l shall ever write. and. al
together the book is about as good as
anything 1 shall ever do. 1t is evident
that if l do not make myself known by
this book I shall remain in obscurity for
the rest of my life"
In writing of his Robert Guiscard."
which was not completed, he said: 1T is
very doubtful if my romance will ever
amount to anything, my epic "Gustavus
Adolphus. may be better. This. how
ever. is in the distant future. Unless my
health gets better l shall never be able
to finish it, since l have done almost moth
ing on it so far
He wrote that he appreciated German.
Danish. Dutch. Swedish. Greek, Russian,
Spanish and Italian poetry, but could not
find much in Hungarian even If the sem
timent is good. In the diary is a refer
ence to the acknowledgment of a receipt
of copy of Homer sent to Ambassador
Bryce.
Among the books mentioned In his diary,
The Alhambra. Astoria, The Shipwreck,
Brownings Paracelsus. Poems of Petoffi,
Petoffi's EZilaj Pista. Rostrans Cyrano de
Bergerac. Lukios. Trelawneys Records
of Shelley and Bryon. Marcus Aurelius of
Renan, Lucian's Toxaris. Eikones, Janos
Vitez, Crabbe. Longfellow's Outre Mer
and Hyperion, Gautier's Voyage en- Es-
payne, Life of Constantine. Eusebius
| Kacinzy's Frogs, Lucian's Zeus. Lucian's
Zeus Tragedeus, German translations Of
Stories of a Hunter On the Cycle Of
Constantine and Mails Saga.