The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-08-13

try home, Plandome Park, Plandome.
on Long Island. and will be there till
the cold weather sends her on her an
nual winter pilgrimage to her Ber-
muda home.
Author of "CiceIy."
Mrs Sarah Beaumont Kennedy. the
only woman writer of newspaper para
graphs in the South. and author OF
Cicely,' romance OF the Civil War.
to be brought out by Doubleday, PAGE
q Co. In the fall. spent several days in
New York recently In consultation
with her publishers. Her trip was a
Tying one because OF the necessity for
getting back on tho Job Of writing
political barbs.
VIII Go TO Canadian woocs.
George Madden Martin. author OF
Emmy Lou" and several other pop.
ular books. recently wrote from Que.
bee that after a few pleasant weeks
there she will go far into, the trackless
Canadian woods for the remainder of
her vacation.
Demetrn Vaka'B New Book.
With STEAMBOAT once more in ashes
and rebellions in the East and rebel
lions in the West. the Young Turk
party at Constantinople has its hands
full, and the outcome would be diff
cult to predict. In the meantime, we
are to have novel picturing the com
plicated and interesting political sit
nation in Turkey to-day Houghton
Mifiin Co. announce for publication
In the early autumn a new book by
Demetra Naka. the author of "TIarem-
lin. entitled 'In the Shadow of Is
lam the hero of which is a leader in
the Young Turk movement. and the
heroine an American college girl.
Fnir mt Quiiicote.
The annual Dorcas Fair will be held
al "Quillcote" the residence of Mrs.
Kate Douglas Wiggin. at Hollis. Me,
on Tuesday. August Is. There will be
barn concerts, rustic dances and a sale
of fancy articles. autographed books
and photographs. Mrs Wiggin gives
the use of her summer place each year
for this fair in aid of the local church
society.
Curious Case of Telepathy
curious case of telepathy is relat-
ed by John Muir the California geo
logist, in his new book My First
Summer in the Sierra" (Houghton Milf.
film Coz He spent the summer of 1863
in the beautiful wilderness around the
Yosemite Valley. One day he was
busily sketching on the North Dome
when suddenly he became possessed
with the notion that his friend. Pro
fessor J. d. Butler. Of the University
of Wisconsin. was below him in the
valley. He jumped UP full of the idea
of meeting him. being almost as much
startled as II some one had unexpect-
eddy touched him and made him look
up Instantly he went running down
the slope and along the brinkgef the
valley, looking for a way to the bot
tom, feeling drawn irresistibly. Grad
ually his common sense convinced him
that he could not possibly reach the
hotel until after everybody would be
asleep for the night. He therefore
compelled himself to stop. But the
next day he went into the valley and
found that Professor Butler had ar
rived the evening before. unexpected
by anybody. He had been four or fva
miles distant at the moment when Mr..
Muir was so suddenly appraised of his
presence He had just entered the
valley by way OF the Coulterville
trail says the author. land was com
ing past FL Captain when his pres
ence struck me. Had he then looked
toward the North Dome with a good
glass he might have seen me jump up
from my work and run toward him.
This seems the one we'll defined marvel
of my life of the kind called superna-
tural."