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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-01-16
A BLESSING
IN DISGUISE

The American Magazine has been
holding a contest and Offering prizes
for the best letters on the subject
MY Biggest Piece of Luck" Follow
ing is one of the prize winning let
tiers taken from the January number:
You wouldn't expect to strike
luck through being sent to Jail,
would you? Nevertheless, that is
what happened to a friend of mine.
For obvious reasons use fictitious
name.
Robert Fulsome was an exception
ally talented young man. He was ad-
mitted to the bar in New York, and
his future seemed bright and assur-
ed. But he went into politics, fell
into bad company, and took to drink.
He lost his practice and descended
literally to the gutter. The taste for
liquor once acquired, it Is almost i'm
possible to free ones self from it.
II becomes disease. II did with
Fulsome, sapping his will power, and
he had not the means to be treated
for it, There seemed no hope for
him, and he gave up to despair. The
last blow came when he got into
drunken brawl and was sent to Black
wells Island for three months. But
the penitentiary proved his saving
and making. AS long as he was free
he was able to get liquor-the vilest
sort of stuff-in some way. We
watch closely the adulteration of
foods, but we allow saloons to exist
which sell alleged whisky at prices
that on their face prove the stuff
they dispense is terribly adulterated
and rank poison.
''In the pen Fulsome was compel
led to lead a regular, clean life on
wholesome. plain diet, and it was
impossible for him to obtain any in
toxicating liquor. At first he suffer
ed terribly from the deprivation, but
at the END of two months he was
new man in mind and body, and had
entirely lost the craving for drink
Now he was a very handsome, attrac-
tive man, and fell under the notice
of wealthy charitable woman who
one day visited the prison. She learn
ed his history from the deputy war
den, and determined to give him y
chance to redeem himself. She Wis.
tied the prison again, and had long
talk with him the result Of which
was that upon his agreeing to take
the pledge-though he felt now It
was unnecessary-and go West TO
her home city, she promised to look
after him and provide literally for
his necessities until he should be-
come able to provide for himself.
This happened five years age. To-
day Fulsome is her son-in-law. is
wealthy, and is one of the most from
inent lawyers and respected citizens
in his State. He has never again
touched a drop of strong liquor and
the very odor of whisky sickens him.
He told me that the pen cured lin
more effectuaily than any sanitari-
UNI could have done. and that the
luckiest thing that ever happened to
him-and 1t certainly was-w the
thing that at the time seemed the
climax of his misfortunes-belng sent
to Jail! It proved blessing in dis
guise, as do SO many things that at
the time they occur crush MS with
despair"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-01-16
ENTHUSIAST

Just listen to the baby!" said
young Mrs, Torkins.
YES" replied her husband. Hes
trying to yell his head on"
And isn't It pleasant! The pre-
cocious pet sounds as II ne were at
bali game and our side had made
home run. Washington Star.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-01-16
ESCAPED AFTee =iFTEsN YEARS

w. p. Broyles made a successful
escape after fifteen years Of suffer
ing from kidney and bladder troubles.
Foley Kidney Pills released him and
will do just the same for others. He
says: They cured most severe
backache with painful bladder irreg-
ularities, and they do all you claim
for them" Refuse substitutes. Co
CD Drug Co. -(Advertisement).
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-01-16
A new TRUE
LINCOLN STORY

In the January American Magazine
Brand Whitlock. Mayor Of Toledo,
Ohio. begins series Of personal rem.
iniscenses. The first article is EMIT.
led "A Boy and His Grandfather.
Following is the story Of an expert.
ence with Abraham Lincoln that
Whitlocks grandfather had. 1t is
hard to conceive Of man being kind
er and gentler to another than Lin
coin was in this case:
MY grandfather, Mr.. Brand, how
ever, did not 60 with his regiment to
the West. He had been transferred
to the Commissary Department and
he remained with the Army Of the
Potomac until the close OF the war,
and 1t was on some detail connected
with his duties in that department
that, in 1865, he went into Washing.
ton and had the interview with Pres
ident Lincoln l so much liked to hear
him tell about. 1t was not in the
course Of his military duty that he
went to see the CommanderinC Chief
whatever those duties were they
were quickly discharged at the War
Department, so that, in the hours Of
freedom remaining to him before he
went back to the front, he did what
everyone likes to do in Washington
he went to see the President. But
he went in no military capacity; he
went rather in that political capac
ity he SO much preferred to the mil
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-01-16

itary, and he went as to the chief
he had 30 long known and loved and
followed.
II would be his old friend Chase
who presented him to the President,
but their conversation was soon in.
terrupted by the entrance Of an aid
who announced the arrival in the
White House grounds Of an Indiana
regiment passing through Washing
ton, which, as seems to have been
the case with most regiments pass
ing through the Capital, demanded
q speech from the President. And
Lincoln complied, and as he rose to
60 out he asked my grandfather to
accompany him, and they continued
their talk on the way. But when
they stood in the White House por-
tico, and the regiment beheld the
President and saluted him with its
lifted cheer, the aide stepped to my
grandfather's side, and much to his
chagrin-for he had been held by
the President while he finished a
story-told him that II would be nee
essary for him to drop a few PAGES
to the rear. It was little contret-
emps that embarrassed my grand
father, but Lincoln with his fine and
delicate perceptions, OWNED the
whole situation, and met 1t with that
kindness which was so geat part
OF the humor and humanness in him,
by saying:
you see, Mr.. Brand, they might
not know which was the President. u
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-01-16
THE MOST POLITE USE
OF CAMPAIGN FUNDS

+. p. Dunno, writing THE Inter.
prefers House." in the January Am.
erican Magazine, says:
The most polite use OF vast cam.
paign funds is the bribing Of voters.
II the money doesn't 20 to the voters
II must be embezzled by the mana
GERS"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-01-16

Smile in the face OF adversely and
you will have adversely grin in your
face.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-01

smaller engagements. In action she was
stationed in the magazine with the gun
ners, preparing flannel cartridge cases
Danger from lightning was great in
the days of wood and sail. AS the
mizzenmast of many ships was stepped
in the powder magazine, it was the
hope of all on board that. il lightning
must strike her. il would not he by
way of that mast. The author gives TO
NJ Dupuy de LONE, naval engineer
under Napoleon ILL., the honor Of in
venting the ironclad. In 1891. after
the Crimean War, the French gov
eminent placed at his disposition
line of battleship. the Napoleon, which
he transformed into the first seagoing
ironcad, at the same time changing her
from sailing ship into steamer
England Immediately improved upon
the innovation by building her first iron
warship. the Warrior. Thus began the
ruinous competition in armor and
ordnance and size that has become one
of the burdens of the nations. II is
symptomatic of the times that the au-
thor closes his book with a review OF
the Increasing cost Of fleets.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-01
AUTHORS OF YESTERDAY
The Memories of a British
Novelist.

MEMORIES OF VICTORIAN LONDON.
BY L. b. Walford. With portrait. svo.
PIP 351. Longmans, Green IL Co.
The author of that clever tale, THE
Baby's Grandmother" has put together
in her new book the anecdotes and
"reminiscences for which she did not
find q place in her "Recollections Of a
Scottish Novelist" Some of her stories
are not, it must be admitted, new or
particularly effective, but others are
comparatively fresh and piquant The
glimpses Of Victorian authors met dur
ing her visits TO London are gen
orally entertaining. personalities being
sketched in wildly and often with hui
NOR.
Many Of her anecdotes were gathered
in literary conversations-as, for in
stance, one told by Mrs. Charles (of
The Sch0nberg- Gotta Famly'') con-
corning an old country aunt Of hers
and Mr. Tennyson. The poet, brought
to the house by a relative, was invited
to stay all night, and stipulated that if
he did stay he should be allowed to
smoke in his bedroom. The old lady
bristled up. That she could not allow
Bedroom smoking was not only objec-
tionab bic, but dangerous; and for no one
would she relax her prohibition rule
Mr.. Tennyson proving equally OBJ
durate, the hostess's own carriage was
ordered out and he was sent in it back
TO his hotel at Plymouth, whence. how
ever. he returned the next morning to
breakfast" While we are on the sub
ject of poets it is worth while perhaps
to quote Mrs. Walfords recollection of
Fanny Kembes talk about Words
worth and her visit to Rydal Mount:
The Wordsworths were such queer peo-
pie and so wrapped up in themselves.
Even though you were their guest you
were expected in everything TO play sec
ond fiddle to the great man OF the house.
Round him everything revolved You
might have a poor breakfast, cold dishes.
bad coffee-things were mostly bad at
Rydal that were only for the inferior gem
eral company-but the masters comfort
was sedulously attended to. So different
from my other poet-friend, Mr.. Southey,
with whom ! also stayed at the Lakes.
Nc was "everybody's body" attended to
every one. looked after every one him
elf,--whiie In the Wordsworth household
il was the custom for the head Cf the
house to breakfast in bed. wife on one
side, daughter on the other. both wholly
absorbed i'm mnistcring 10 his wants.
while every other person might go hang
A quite different sort Of poets family
is commemorated i'm an account by the
authors cousin Mary" of a visit paid
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-01

10 the Misses Shelley az Brighton
They felt anything but pride in their
famous brother. I'VE found we had
10 tread Gelicately even if his name
seemed within measurable distance OF
being mentioned said Cousin Mary
especially with Miss Margaret Shei-
lev. who is prickly and perverse on
most subjects. and with her it rs not
only a case of belittling the prophet III
his own country but of denying that
there ever was a prophet at all. once
in answer to the question. Are you d
sister of the poet shelley" she hrst
stared blankly. then appeared to nave
a sudden recollection and drew hersel
I'D 10 her full height. 1 once had
brother who ] believe wrote immoral
verses. but am thankful to say nave
never read any Of them.
Mrs. Walford found that George FL
iot was personally, on the whole, a
bore. she and her husband being con-
tinuallv ION the high horse IN TAIN
after a dav at the Leweses," said the
venerable Miss Kemble. Il am worn
10 thread" George Eliot was uh-
feignedly fond of music and cohS'o-
cred herself a pianist. MI. Lehman
told our author of the duets when ne
was sometimes called upon to play with
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-01
MANY INVENTIONS
Their Romance and Services to
Mankind.

LEADING AMERICAN INVENTORS.
BY George Hes. With IL portraits and
many Illustrations. Biographies ~
Leading Americans Large l2m" PIP.
XIV, AZ. Henry Holt Co
This is the fifth volume Of service
able series. and one Of its best thus
far. Mr.. Hess book must not he CON
founded with the many compilations n.
second or third hand that serve their
popular purpose well enough in a
superficial general fashion. He goes
TO the root of matters and takes par
ticular care TO he explicit without be-
ing obscure in dealing with tho inven-
tons OF his twelve heroes. Further
moro. he heightens tho interest Of his
stories by drawing detailed pictures Of
the general conditions Of their time,
and by drawing occasional comparisons
with those OF our own day. Thus. in
the case of Eli Whitney and his cotton
gin, he deals at length with patent
matters and the theory of monopoly
evolved in the case OF that useful ma
chine. Congress was petitioned by the
Senator'S and Representatives from
Georgia to modify the patent act and
to limit the price of obtaining right
to use the gin. There was question,
also, of national compensation TO tho
inventor and manufacturers for the
cancellation of the patent, while. final
/, ly. by what the author calls an 'antici-
49, Of
Southern States began to buy outright.
the use OF the gin for their planters.
Whitney was, according 10 Mr.. lies.
the founder of scientific management
now known as Standardization In his
gin factory.
Accident-good luck-plays COM
paratively small part IN the history Of
invention. Still, there was Charles
Goodyear.
One morning he ornamented a piece Of
gum elastic with bronze. and boiled ii
in weak solution of lime On removing
the fabric from its bath. he saw that part
of the bronze had been washed OFF To
detach the remainder he touched ii with
nitric acid. This instantly darkened the
gum. which he impatiently threw aside
as spoiled and useless. But there was
something in the look and feel OF that
shrivelled sheet that chung to his memory.
A day or two later he picked II out Of the
rubbish heap and examined it-With
rich reward. Wherever the nitric acid
had touched the gum all sickness had
departed and Its surface was virtually
tanned. Goodyear followed up this golden
hint: before week had passed he was
producing thin rubber sheets, cured
through and through.
Accident. no doubt, but an accident
made possible only by the fact that
Goodyear had been constantly expert
menting. The evolution OF inventions.
from hand TO hand, until later conner
brings them to perfection, is strikipgly
illustrated by Cyrus McCormick's
reaper. English and Scotch inventors
were busy with mechanical reapers a
century ago and. while most OF their
models never passed the experimental
stage. two or three proved sufficiently
serviceable 10 be used. IL was the
corporated in later apparatus. McCor-
mick was. moreover. what inventors
rarely are, a capital business man.
Once he had turned his attention to the
level .vastnesses OF the West, his sue
cess was assured From a reaper Of
undoubtedly English origin was de-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-01
LITERARY NEWS
& cRlf liz b B

before the mast Much has been writ
ten about the dark side of England
glorious record at sea, but evidently
something new always remains 10 be
disclosed. Mr.. Wood publishes some
amazing facts concerning the tolerated
presence on board of women, not only
i'm harbor, but at sea as we'll:
Women We're on board the Goliath at
the battle of ST. Vincent. and they pc
haved as well as the men. during the
fight they were employed in carrying
powder between the magazines and the
guns Some of the women We're wounded,
and one, who came from Leith, died oil
her injuries An Edinburgh woman gave
birth to a son during the battle.
In some Of the French ships at trafalgar
there were at least few women.
There died at EXmouth in 1860 woman
named Ann Perrian, who was described az
a female naval pensioner. She was WIN
her husband in ii. NJ 5. crescent ana
H. NJ $. Orion from 1874 to 1873. ana
shared in the battles of Lorient. cape 81;
Vincent and the Nile, as well as seVerai
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-01

veloped the binding harvester OF
to-day.
Another instance Of accident as an
aid To invention is that OF Benjamin Z.
Tilghman. one day. while experiment
ing in his laboratory,
lie aimlessy bruised a burnt match
stick into some sulphurous acid mlxeu
with water. Next day he noticed that the
wood had become mucilaginous, so as 10
look like paper pulp. At once ne asheu :
Can this solution convert wood INTO mate
rial for paper? He put his surmlse 10 d
test and proved 1T to be sound.
In this field, too, the ultimately sue
cessful inventor had been preceded by
others. In 1854 a Frenchman had sue
ceeded in producing wood pulp paper
and in the following year an American
Hugh Burgess. of Pennsylvania, had
patented a similar process, which was
that of boiling the wood fibre in caustic
soda, and then treating it with soiu-
ton Of chloride of lime. A match. idly
stuck into another chemical, pointed
the way to the perfected process. The
typewriter suggested the linotype ana
with the story OF this machine and its
inventor the book closes. 1t opens with
the Stevenses. of Castle Point, Ho-
bokep-John, Robert Livingston and
Edwin Augustus; the other American
inventors included are Robert Fulton
Thomas Blanchard and his lathe. Morse
and Alfred Vail. Ericsson. Howe and
his sewing machine. and Sholes and the
typewriter.
The human side Of these stories is no
less we'll told. 1t is predominantly
record of persistence in the face OF dis
couragements and failure, record of
incredulity To be overcome. hut also,
here and there, one Of encouragement
and timely aid
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-01

Irving. "On one OCCASION" says the
narrator when my father was going
to America he lost the dog at South
ampton, but Pussy managed to find
his way back from Southampton 10
the Lyceum, and went straight up to
my fathers dressing-room, into his
armchair, where he was found re-
markable achievement for a dog. No.
body knows how he found his way from
Southampton to London, but the fact
is that he did. He was in a starving
condition and his feet were bleeding and
sore. He was sent up to Grafton street
where my father then lived. and the
housekeeper looked after him until
my fathers return from America
Two French Novels.
TRANSACTIONS OF two popular French
novels are to be published next month
by Dutton. One is Pierre de Coule
vain's American Nobility" a story OF
international marriage; the other is
Henri Bordeaux's Fear of Living"
piece of fiction which has been crowned
by the French Academy.
Or. Gardeners History.
We are to have a fourth volume OF
the late Or. Gardeners history of "Lol-
lardy and the Reformation in Eng
land" It was found after his death
that he had practically completed the
volume, and DR.. William Hunt is re-
vising the work and seeing IT through
the press.
A Wesley Diary.
Mr.. Nehemiah Curnock. the editor OF
John Wesley's journals and the DIS
coyerer Of the key TO the cipher IN
which those early journals were writ
ten, has made another find In the
last pages Of little book known as
'Wesley's Last Account Book" which
has been preserved among the old
London archives OF Methodism. he has
found shorthand diary OF the last ten
years Of Wesleys life. The diarist
ends his accounts with this sentence.
written with tremulous hand: II will
not attempt il any longer, being salts
fed with the continual conviction that
save all can and give all can; that
is, all | have
Frech Romances.
1t is not stated whether Miss Mar
jorie Bowens novel, The Quest OF
Glory" which has just been issued
here. is identical with "A knight Of
Spain" which is on the point of pub
LEGATION in London. 1t is often the
case that an American edition OF an
English novel will carry title diner,
ing from that Of the English one. Miss
Eliza beth Robbins's new story, for in
stance, is called in this country MY
Little Sister" whereas its English title
is Where Are You Going To :!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-01

young Canadian author, which Double
day, Page & Co. will soon publish. 1t
Is mentioned as a dramatic story OF
the irrigation problem The Virginian
story which is also coming from this
house is Miss Ellen Glasgows Viz
ginia."
Paul Jones.
What promises 10 be a particularly
interesting historical study is Mr.. NJ
NJ Crawfords THE Sailor Whom
England Feared: Being the Life and
Adventures OF Paul Jones, Scottish
Gentleman Of Fortune and Admiral in
the American and Russian Fleets"
This will be one OF the books of the
spring.
The French Academy.
A careful and comprehensive history
of the Academic FRANCHISE from the
year 1920 to 1874 has been written by
NJ. Frederic Mason. This will be wei
coined by all conscientious students of
literature.
"Fussy.'
To book on dogs recently published
in London Mr.. " b. Irving has contrib
uted little chapter on Pussy. the fox
terrier which was the cherished ia
miliar Of that eminent actor. Sir Henry
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-01

soul. ayerse TO bloodshed: but before
Napoleon he had been Roman con-
pueror and before that all Egyptian
King of the prehistoric dynasty. SO
said Professor Balthasar, creator
seer by far than the Countess. was
Bunker Bean TO go through his new lie
the mental Of mean
cid man with hundred millions? NO,
indeed, And so the -reincarnated con-
1ueror builds anew his kingshlp-ls
forced into it, rather, by a chain OF
circumstances skirting
reality, and by variety OF people
that keep the reader chuckling when
he is not laughing aloud. The story
is an unalloyed delight.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-01
Ships in Peace and War, Under
T.; Sail and Steam.

STEAMSHIP CONQUEST OF THE
WORLD BY Frederick a. Talbot.
Illustrated $40, PIP. xii, 3H. Philade!-
pha: The J. B. LiPpincott Company
THE BATTLESHIP. Being the Story OF
the Greatest Naval Weapon from the
first Ship-of- the-Line, to Present-day
Leviathans BY Walter Wood. WITH
i03 illustrations by Frank II. Mason.
r. B. A.. and from engravings. plans
and photographs. SvO, PIP. XVI, SO5 b.
i. DuttOn * Co.
Mr. Talbot has done capital piece
of work His book on the steamship
of commerce and travel tells the lands
man all that he desires to know, all
that he should know, and succeeds in
doing this without employing a single
obscure technicality The account be-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-01
FICTION.

THE DECLENSION OF HENRY DAl,Blhs
By V l;olde. limo. PIP. 3l2. Che ffe'e'
lex A. Stokes Company
Relating what came OF the meeting % %
tween young French nobleman and H''
die class Scotch girl-a suffragette.
THE FRONTIERS OF THE HEART. By Is
tor Marguerite. Translated from the Z EN- rs.
BY Frederic Lees. i2mo, pp. $40 W"
Frederick A. Stokes Company
A story based on the theme Of the stias
gle between love and patriotism AZ the u"'
OF the Franco Prussian war
THE FIFTH TRUMPET. By Paul BertranL
Emo. pp. VIII, 3s4 The John Lane CON
pany.)
Dealing with the fifteenth century ~
premacy OF the Church In Europe wv
story runs through the narrative.
THE FINGER OF Mr.. BLEE. rrops.s.aa
Comedy. BY Peter Blundell limo, PIP S-
(The John Lane Company
THE QUEST OF GLORY. BY Msrje,s
Bowen. 1?mo. pp. VI, 81. ,E p. QUITO"
a Coz
The scene IL laid in France in the sa,y
part OF the reign Of Louis XIV. - "
story deals with the adventures OF tn'
Marquis de VauvenarSues.
MISS JIMMY. BY Laura e. Richaros