The National tribune., 1911-02-09

taking up his work as a professor in the
Andover Theological Seminary. had also
been one. She entered with zeal into the
support Of many reforms, especially that
directed against vivisection. Mrs Ward
was remarkably careful, conscientious
writer going over and over her work until
it exactly satisfied her. IL word seemed
weak. she spent days. sometimes, i'll ind
ing substitute which had just the shade
of meaning she wished to express. In her
death the literature of the world suffers a
distinct loss. and American literature in
particular is bereft of one of its most brill
/ liant lights. Margaret Deland comes. per-
haps. as near taking the place of Mrs.
Ward any writer we have at present,
but the former. tho very strong. intensely
! interesting in her style, and strikingly dra-
matte. is less spiritual. and her books do
not show the same loftness of purpose
which is reflected Enthusiastically in the
writings of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.
TIME bit of gossip connected with the
early life of King George-that is.
that he contracted mOrganatic mar
riage with an Admirals daughter-is sup
posed to be forever Squelched by the pun
ishment of the last person to publicly re-
tail it. The writer of the objectionable
article. Edward +. Myths. was arrested.
tried on the charge of seditiOus libel. and
sentenced to a years Imprisonment The
Admiral himself and his only daughter tes-
titled to the utter falSenesS of the report
Under the English constitution King
George was not allowed to appear in his
own defense In spite of all this. however.
so unwilling are most people to separate
themselves from choice bit of scandal.
that there probably will be always those
in England and elsewhere, who will firmly
believe in this early escapade of King
George.
TIME son of Henry Watterson. the we'll
known editor. has been declared in
sane by a commission, and his COM
initial to an insane asylum recommended.
This unfortunate young man recently shot
and killed saloonkeeper, whom he had
never seen. which was pretty good proof
that he was decidedly unbalanced.
nOOKER WASHINGTON says he
"a never liked the National Capital,
has avoided it all his life, and has
rarely spent day there that he did not
consider thrown away. Possibly the visits
which he does not consider a waste OF
time were those made by him when his
friend. Mr.. Roosevelt occupied the White
House. Ii is the spirit of Washington of
which the great colored educator disap-
proves. the holding spirit, ever ir-
resistible TO the people of his race. tho,
not so much so now as formerly, and I'M
questionably detrimental to their advance
ment. To run an elevator in Washington
has Sat!iicd most of them better than TO
earn five times as much money at some
other occupation away from the charmed
city. and to hold an office under the Gov
eminent the hight of their ambition.
AIOSTAND'S play of ''Chantecler" is
now being played in New York. The
novelty of the performance has at
tracted large crowds, and the admirers of
Maud Adams, whose name is legion, have
hocked there to see their favorite in her
queer feather costume. But. as was feared,
the play loses its flavor in translation,
and. anyway. American audiences DO not
care over-much for symbolism in their
theatrical productions. They prefer plain.
understandable conversation to poetic or
histrionic -eloquence. The novelty of the
play keeps the interest up pretty well dur
ing the first two acts, but after that 1t
flags, and a single performance satisfies.
TIME father of Rudyard Kipling has
just died. He was teacher in the
Bombay School of Art when his gift
ed son was born, and would probably have
remained in obscurity had it not been for
This son. He illustrated some of the lat
ter,S books wien he began TO write them,
but his pictures showed no particular
merit. and would probably have been re-
jected By the publishers had not kipling
expressed a wish that his fathers work
be recognized. The death of Tolstoi and
Mark Twain leaves Kipling in a class by
himself. lie, more than any other writer
in the world, is best known and read at
who enjoyed this distinction, lola, Toll
stoi, Mark Twain, and kipling: Now,
there is only Kiplng. Maurice Maeter-
Iinck, the Belgian writer, is becoming bet
ter known all the time. and already has
large following. but his work never will
make the human appeal kipling does, nor
will he ever win the international repu-
ia tion attained by the Engishman almost
in his youth.
N IGIIT hundred Massachusetts clergy
n, men have sent a petition to their
Representatives i'll Congress protest
ing against further increase of the navy.
1t blames our big navy partly for the high
cost of living, and declares it hindrance
TO industrial progress.
TIME murder of David Graham Phil
lips, the well-known magazine writ
err and novelist, in New York
recently. once more brings sharp
iy home the fact that NOV
ing freely among US are many
people of unbalanced mind, who may
at any moment 90 some ueeu Oh uTedu-
full note" AS far as has yet come to
light Goldsborough had no real mo-
tive for his act. only that emanating
from 4 diseased brain. He did not like
what Phillips had written, and he killed
him. Phillips was an Indiana man,
about "A years of age and at the hight
of his powers Most of his literary
work has been done for the purpose of
reforming corrupt conditions in politi-
cal and social life. He has written
about 20 novels and many articles for
the magazines, among which THE
Treason of the Senate" created n great
excitement when it appeared five years
ago. Phillips was unmarried, and lived
with a sister in a beautifully fitted out
studio apartment at the National Arts
Club He was. a very Industrious work.
er, using the hours of the night when
the great city slept for this purpose.
GoidsborOugh, who after the shooting
of Phillips Immediately killed himself
was man of no mean talent. An ac-
complished musician, he had won con-
siderable reputation abroad, as well as
in this country, by his violin PLAYING
He is said to have written charming
poetry, and to have been generally a
very cultivated man. Tho somewhat
eccentric. as one similarly gifted is apt
TO be, his mental balance was generally
unquestioned. Thus has the world been
deprived of two men who contributed
largely to its culture, when, perhaps, a
visit to a good doctor might have spared
us both
TARRIE NATION is said to be in a
III very serious condition of health with
a very slim prospect of recovery.