New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-23

Not even generals or DoU,
The lrav" fireman they cant touch
TIE fireman puts out fires
And climbs ladders and rcscucs ladies
And wares fine uHafoTm
And IS Crater than bcWy'
What the young poet had against Nd
mlral Dewey the editor was unable 10
learn. The opinions Of the male parent
may have had something 10 do with the
case. The following article on politicks.'
In Ike manner. must have been inspired
by the table talk Of elders. The manu-
script was from the pen of a young lady
of eleven, residence Louisville:
Politics is something that makes my uncel
Alfred sore. My papa says that unc'l Alfred
don't know what he is talking about and my
uncel Alfred SAYS my papa don't know what he
Is talking about, and my mamma says my uncel
Alfred and my papa don't Know what they are
talking about and then ] always nav" To leave
the room. Foliticks always makes people talk
loud and mamma says 1t IL very embarrassing on
count Of the servants. Their" IL two kinds Of
politcks republican and democrats. but my unccl
Alfred says there - only one. That always
starts my darling papa going, but | don't
why because my papa also says there f. only
one. When they begin 10 talk about theze poll
ticks. my mamma always says to them that 1t
would be better II they payd more atcnshion 10
| there wives and that is all / know about poll
ticks. / think they are awful.
"A future novelist possibility recently
sent this self-cxplanatory letter to the
editor of one Of the New York fiction mag
azines:
'Dere Sir: ] am sending you a plot for "A
secryal novel and II you like n ! wisht YOU
wood let rite it for you | am thirteen
years old and am country boy VINO gole To
country skool ana who nose lots about the
country. | reed your magsseen "vry month
because suskribc to It because We got set
OF books free.
HENnY .
"The plot for the sceryaI novel follows.
The spelling has been edited in this case.
as 1t was less amusing than the context:
Miss Rutherford is a country school teacher
and is very beautiful and is beloved by her
She spurns his suit for three chapters because
he Is not handsome and because Miss rutherford
IL not CRATER. In the fourth chapter | want
Miss Rutherford 10 murder James for insulting
her. and William Tracy. "A city lawyer who hap
pens to be buying MORTGAGES In the district
prosecutes her for the deed. Tracy suddenly IL
afflicted with n passionate love for Miss Ruthcr-
ford I'm the nth chapter. and she Is about to
wed him when the police interfere IN the name
of the law they arrest Tracy for receiving stolen
goods. and In the last chapter the ghost OF
the dead farmer haun,s the beautiful teacher so
that she is about TO commit suicide when she II
saved 10y one Of her pupils named Henry %
who marres her and. II YOU want some more
chapters. ! viii describe the twins they VIII
have.
"Not ali the youngsters with literary
ambitions. however, are. poets, essayists
and noveists Any number of them are
short story writer's. The following docu-
ment may be placed in the files as the
work OF a little miss of twelve. The man
uscript was received eight or nine months
ago at one of the fiction magazine offices
and a transcript was kept. Correcting the
spelling:
LOVE STORY.
From the time they born, Jack and
Mary was lovers But they never told each