Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-20

" 10 be damned on his twenty-first
piece as any tyro.
There WAS once q playwright who
sat in the front row at the first night
OF d new piece of his own. This piece
failed. It failed dreadfully.
Us the playwright sat. pale and
sad, amid the Kisses. woman behind
him leaned forward and said:
".Excuse me, sir; but knowing you
to be the author of this play, took the
liberty, at the beginning of the per-
Torrance, of shipping off a lock OF
your hair Allow me now to return
il to you.
Herman Whitaker is very frank to
tell about the early experiences where
By he frst learned the crafts of the
flontiersman. In a recent converse
ton over The Settler his latest
novel, Mr.. Whitaker offered the Har-
pors, who are his publishers, some per-
sonai facts that show an excellent
method Of learning what man does
not know. ARRIVING in the country
without any practical experience" said
Mir. Whitaker, my first task was to
take out Il house anu SlctDlSS IL Jill tiiC7
adjoining forest ! had never even
seen log cut. but l knew that one
hitc,led team to them and drew them
oit TO the sleighs. My first log was Il.
sr.el poplar thirty feet long and
eighteen inches in diameter at the butt.
/ suppose it weighed quarters of
4 Ton, and I tricd-verily, i tried to
lit il ca to my sleighs by sheer
strength and ignorance. The ignor-
ance won't didn't lift. Putting my
wits 10 work, I thought that If | used
that for bed piece. threw two more
logs across it at right angles, with
IN, ir ends resting upon it, | might be
able to roll up third and drop It on
NV eieighs. 1t worked. and l after
ward discovered that I had constructed
the regulation skidway of the lumber
woods. l soon learned. I cut my
o1n logs. hewed them, built my own
house. lathed it with willow withes.
drew limestone from the prairiaS, and
burned il in kiln Of my own making.
dug sand. and plastered my house, All
with an axe. saw, auger hammer, and
nails
4 new book by Josephine DaSkanl
Bacon is to be ?. feature Of the month.
1t has been titled Ten to seventeen.
further explained by the phrase, "a
I:carding-school Diary" Tile narra-
tive is devised to read like growing
girls intensely artlees coniiidinSs about
herself, the other girls in the school.
and various srown-ups who belong
within its borderland. Ten to Seven
Nv
January IS.
In his book on "The Real Aus
tralia," recently published by Jacobs
6 Co.. Alfred buchanan gives a de-
hgllt:u! description of the Australian )
hospitality. open-heartedness and
generosity that will be revelation to
many unacquainted with the character
istic island temperament.
Edward s. Ellis, always n popular
writer with boys, contributes to the
holiday fiction very diverting auto
mobile story called The Lost Dragon
DANA. Estes &, Co. Boston,. This
narrative forms o sequel to Nj. Ellis
nreylous story, "From High to Low
Gear" and contains more of the eXcit-
ing and nerve tinglng adventures Ct
tee hero. "The Lost Dragon" is thor
oughlv realistic in Incidents and char
acters and has a main theme which will
appeal to every wholesome American
boy.
"a West Point Yearling' penn Pub
fishing Company. Philadelphia by
Captain Paul B. Malone. is a continual
-. ,c nj nc "A
wei, a character which the author
made known in two previous books
This latest story relates the adven-
lures at the military school Of Atwell
who has become president of the year
ling class. Atwell is an opponent OF
TIE hazing system at the Academy and
ri the risk of his popularity he does
all in his power to advocate the sup
preston of this practice. How he ac.
composites his purpose is told in a
most interesting and entertaining way
| by the author. He backs his pIot
with series of faithful scenes show
ing the daily routine at West Point
Z. A. Carter has illustrated the vol
ume.
The Letters of the Wordsworth Fam.
| lily from 1887 to 1855. collected and edi-
ted by William Hamilton Osborne in
the interesting group of three volumes
just published by CHM e. Company. De.
hghttui glimpses Of the home life o.
the famous bard and of the coterie o.
| author friends which he gathered
| about him are given in these quaint,
! written and somewhat formal letters
| most of them from the pen of William
| Wordsworth himself and Of his charm
ing sister Dorothy.
William Hamilton Osborne is the an.
| tnor 9f q story in the current numbe,
OF ina BED f2ok entitled THE, Hous,