Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-22

| old niece Off came the old gray wide
awake, and the end of it was the line
| verses which appear in his last VOL
ume Of poems under the title "Ihrce
Weeks Old"
Some years ago while travelling in
Province Mr.. Gelet Burgess visited
the old and deserted city of Les Baux,
near Aries Having become Interested
| in the place he bought a little piece OF
land beyond the chateau for $50. He
has been numerically joked by his
| friends ever since about his estate,
which seemed to contain nothing but
ruined walls and scrub pines. This
spring Mr. Burgess set laborers to
work excavating on his land and al
ready two Roman tombs have been
uncarthcd belonging to the second
century. Mr.. Burgess has called his
place Lii Trouvillons, which is proven
cal for '"rreasure Trove." 1t is this
property to which the author loosely
alluded in the whimsical introduction
to his "Maxims of Methuselah,"
though at the time he wrote it nothing
had been found to warrant his descrip-
ton Of the tablets of stone described.
EDWARD Price Bell, an Indiana man, has
attained unusual success in England as a
writer of short stories Mr.. Bell was
born an a farm. near Terre Haute, March
/. 1859, ard almost the whole of his work
ing life mas heen devoted to the news
paner profession The Indiana authors
form of literary effort is the short story
and So admirably does he do it that he
has taken the London magazine world by
storm. His first story. sert to the Strand
Magazine. about a year ago brought an
l.,y, y, H,t
tcrng offer for the worlds serial rights.
Since then Mr. Bells name has appeared
vcrv frequently in this greatest of Brit
ish popular magazines The best of his
work. in the British view is his ''Zorys
Race" which appears in the English cdi-
tior of the Strand Magazine for May.
he best short story by writer of any
nationality that has appeared i'll England
in many years. 1t is reliably told that
H. Greenough Smith, who has been edi-
founding some % years ago, and who in
this period has handled the manuscripts
of nearly every British writer Of the first
front among the relatively few really
fres h, delightful and powerful short sto-
RIGS. that he has been able to give his
readers in recent years. HIS admiration
of the production is proved by the tact
that he gives it first position in his maya
zinc, ahead of the contributions of sch
mn as WiYstnn Churchill uho British
Winston. who is Il Cabinet minister AS
well IS brilliant writcr). Sir John Hare,
w w. Jacobs and others widely known
among tho reaGers of the Strand Three
of MI. Bells stories deal with newspaper
life. The others show various phases of
lulnan trial and hcroism Their most
effective quality is sentiment and n close
second to this IS Il quiet, dc"p-lyiug. gen
uine humor. Much in journalism had rcen
accomplished by Mr. Eel before he tried
to realize his bcyhood dream Of a career
as an imaginative writer. Leaving the
N h,s
age OF ten. for a time he washed coun-
ters and shelf bottles in a Tcrra Haute
Grus store Then he became a peanut
boy on the train that runs daily between
Tolre Haute and indianapolis on the Van
dalia line. From this trading in news
papers. fruits and sweets. the lad went
Hante Gazette, and asked for job
Given one. he worked hard and got on
Mr.. Ball tided him over the shoals Of
mis- primitive spelling and syntax. Sew
with the out-of-town staff of The Indian
arnljs News. doing some work in tile coal
and Iehs strikes under the direction of
Morris Ross After three years in the
Icoser capital-from 1885 to 1SSs-Mr. Bell
worked successfully in S;. Louis. E;v:ns.
willie and Terrc Haute. sometime s us "A
reporter, sometimes as desllman. once
or twice as managing: editor FINALLY.
tree of little weekly OF his own ut
k"S"t'a!e, Parkc county. he went with the
,hlcaSo Record. Since 800 II" has been
Daily News. He is an eN-stIlent Of Wa
bash College.
Harold MacGrath's favorite pas,ime is
riding horseback. He ana his brown mare
are the best of comrades and frequently
g away together for a week at a time
Naturally there is much about this fine
sport in all Of Mr. MacCrath's novels.
Horace Fletcher gave an impromptu
performance at, Springfield recently Which
MI Fletcher went to Springfield to lee
turc. but ut the insistence of the students
attempted to repeat his performances in
e Tnin shown several years ago at
1ai". 10 his own surprise ne beat his
own record and showed some startling
things that an elderly gentleman once
ABOUT ready for the 'scrap heap" can do
athletes, several of whom were in severe
framing for matches. could approach him
Alter the tests were over Mr. Fletcher
ASKED .Si II there was Fletcherite among
lhe Students. A sturdy football tao kle
VINO is a confirmed Fletcheritc was called
IN and the pupil proved too much for his
master IT was "A defeat for Horace
re tcher' but victory for his system
Tine Lure of the Mask" by Harold
MA rat Is the authors sixth novel. It
NJ. Mac'5rath referred to it as :.Ths
Maslucrading Lady" According to his
original idea the scene was to be laid in
rlduce put visit to Italy in tine 1906
convinced Mr.. MacGrath that the cities
OF Italy were the right ones for the set
ting Of his romance. He revisited italy
IN 1907 TO confirm his impressions of local
color and finished the book in America
last winter. While much of the action
occurs in Europe most of the characters
are American.
Julian Street dictated his story INV
Enemy the Motor to "G%orge y. Tyler.
the Mad Mulah of motorists who should
be in a French jail Cable dispatches
fr9m Florence, Italy. suggest that the
original of Mr.. Streets story is extending
his reputation for surprising his fellow
chauffeur avoided e dangerous double