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give evidence not only Of artistic
skill but unusual power OF visual
imagination.
Joseph Pennell was, Of course, first
illustrator, then etcher and lithogra-
pher. His book on ILLUSTRATION" is
an authoritative work and he has
entitled his autobiography THE
Story of An Illustrator" 1t is, how
ever, sometimes a question whether
his charming drawings accompany
his wife's delightful text or vice
versa. Hopkinson Smith was both
author and illustrator, frequently
but not invariably, illustrating his
own books. So also was Du Maurier
and how delightful to remember are
his illustrations for "Trilby,' Peter
Ibbetson" and The Martian," first
published in Harper's.
Fine Array Seen.
Taking a longer look over ones
shoulder, what an array there is OF
great illustrators! What else, fol
that matter, was Rembrandt, al
though, to be sure, his illustrations
of Biblical scenes did not, perhaps
find their way onto the pages Of the
Bible. Then there were Daumier
Gavarni, Goya, great illustrators as
we'll as great artists, through whose
works the life of their times has
continual remembrance. OF Forain
the same may be said. Then in Eng
land there were the inimitable
Charles Keene and Phil May; Ten
MEL, the illustrator of Alice in
Wonderland" marvelously gifted as
an interpreter; Hugh Thompson
whose drawings for Crawford,
The Vicar of Wakefield" and TON
Browns School Days" are among
the best ever produced, to say moth
ing of Arthur Rackham, who gave
us delightful Mother Goose" OF
Carl LARSON, whose drawings OF
child-life and Swedish folk lore are
most enchanting 1t may be a lit
tie difficult to say whether Kate
Greenaway was first writer or illus
traitor, but certainly her unique
drawings in color go happily hand
finland with her quaint and memo
rable verses.
To return to the illustration OF
the novel or short story. Pick up any
such book of the Dos or COS, pub
lished in this country, and observe
how greatly its interest is increased
through the medium of illustration
With amazing skill, the illustrators
Of those days characterized those
personalities that the authors Gre
ated. Where did they gain this COM
petence? What has become of the
gift? The list of the illustrators In
the period referred to is too long tt
give in whole, but certain outstand.
ing examples may be mentioned
such as A. B. Wenzell's illustration.
for Mrs. Wharton's House Of
Mirth" and Lucius w. Hitchcock
for Margaret Deland's Doctor Law.
endar's People" w. Appleton Clarl
illustrated Mrs. Deland's Awaken.
ing of Helena Richie; Montgom.
cry Flagg, Locke's "Septimus"
Charles H. Rhinehart, Thomas Mel.
son Pages "Meh Lady" For Over
Wister's popular Lady Baltimore,
Vernon Howe Bailey and Lester
Ralph furnished illustrations. OF tn,
same illustrious company were F
Walter Taylor. A. I. Keller, Hanson
Booth and e. w. Kembie, as well q!
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fective. Why distress Secretary
Stanton with arguments and the
cries, when he could be so suddenly
and so pleasantly convinced by the
graceful logic Of this new Fenian
Persuader. I only throw out the
suggestion.
"A word more. must find fault
with the sagacity Of the police who
were awakened from their slum-
bers by this Clerkenweu explosion
and who arrested two men and a
woman whom they found in the vi
cinity,' on suspicion of being the
persons who fired the barrel of
powder. Now, if you were to set
fire to barrel of gunpowder, would
you be ass enough to remain in the
vicinity?' Wouldn't you meander
away quarter of a mile or such
matter?
MARK TWAIN.
"P. S. On reflection, I find that
my suggestion concerning Mr.. STAN
ton may have one fault about it..
1t is just possible that if you blew
him up, you might elevate him so
much above his fellow citizens as
to excite envy Envy is bad. Let
the powder be placed above him,
and blow him downwards. 1t does
not outrage our feelings to see peo-
pie go downwards."
The letter, penned in Mr.. Glenn
ems characteristic bold and flow
ing hand with many corrections, was
cut into 10 pieces in The Star COM
posing room. AS pasted together
in the scrapbook, it resumes its
nascent integrity as an epistle on
six sheets of correspondence paper.
Dispatch Was Inspiration.
Inspiration for the suggestion"
had been provided by cable de-
spatch from London, printed in The
Star. Mr.. Clemens reproduced the
story in part in his opening para
graphs. The attempt to free Col.
Burke by destroying the prison in
which he was confined was an his
toric fact, an incident in the long
struggle between the British crown
and the Irish rebels. Mr. Clemens
made the most of the gunpowder
idea to annoy Secretary of War
Edwin NJ Stanton, who, he be-
lieved, had outlived his usefulness
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-10
Photos Are Shown

The United States National Mu-
scum announces an exhibition Of
photographs by David and Eleanor
Craig of Washington, to be held in
the section of photography of the
Arts and Industries Building during
the month of September. The ex-
hibit is open from 8 an. to 4:30 pm.
on week days, and from l:3o to 4:30
pm. on Sundays.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-10

as a member of the cabinet Of
President Andrew Johnson.
For more than year." says the
Dictionary of American Biography,
johnson had been importuned by
his supporters to remove Stanton,
and he repeatedly gave the Secre-
tary TO understand by every mode
short of an expressed request that
he should resign but Stanton
ignored them and with fatal hest
tation the President permitted MIN
to remain. In doing so he virtually
gave his opponents seat in the
cabinet. BY the beginning of August,
1867, however, johnson could tolerate
his mendacious minister no longer.
He had become convinced that the
characterization of Gen. Sheridan
and other commanders in the mill
tary districts was being encouraged
by the Secretary, and he was now
satisfied that Stanton had plotted
against him in the matter of the
reconstruction legislation. Conse-
quently, on August 5, he called for
his resignation, but Stanton brazenly
declined to yield before Congress re-
assembled in December, contending
that the tenure of Office bill had
become law by its passage over the
veto and johnson was found to
obey it. A week later he was sus-
pended; but in January, 1868. he
promptly resumed his place when
the Senate declined to concur in his
suspension. johnson then resolved
to dismiss him regardless of the
consequences, and did so on Febru-
airy 81, 1868. Stanton, with equal
determination, declared that he
would continue in possession until
expelled by force and was supported
by the Senate. He ordered the ar
rest of Adjt. Gen. Lorenzo Thomas,
who had been designated Secretary
ad interim, and had guard posted
to insure his own occupancy and
protect the department records from
seizure. For several weeks there
after he remained in the War De-
partment Building day and night,
but when the impeachment charges
against President Johnson failed,
May 26, 1868, he accepted the in
evitable and resigned the same day"
The Star reported day-to-day de-
velopments in the celebrated dis
pute as they occurred. Mark Twain
also, as writer for the New York
Tribune and the New York Herald,
chronicled the quarrel so long as
he remained in Washington. He
had come to the Nations Capital
first as q tourist in 1854, again to
be private secretary to Senator Will
liam Morris Stewart of Nevada In
the early part of 1867. Am pretty
we'll known now" he wrote to a
member of his family, land intend
to be better known. Am hobnob-
bling with these old generals and
Senators and other humbugs for no
good purpose"
Secretaryship Was Brief.
But his biographer, Albert Bige-
low Paine, writes: THE secretary
arrangement was q brief matter. It
Is impossible to conceive Of Mark
Twain as anybody's secretary, espe-
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cially as the secretary of Senator
Stewart. Within a few weeks he
was publishing humorous accounts
of My Late Senatorial Secretary
ship Facts Concerning the Recent
Resignation ETC., all good-natured
burlesque, but inspired, we may be-
lieve, by the change"
Mr.. Clemens, of course, never was
intended to be a regular" Journal
list any more than he was meant
to be an ideal" private secretary.
He worked hard, but he could not
adjust himself to the pattern of
news enterprise as it then was prac-
ticed. Yet he was popular. His re-
Spouse to the toast Women at
dinner of the Washington Core
spondents' Club was declared by
Schuyler Colfax to have been "the
best after-dinner speech ever made"
He lectured on "1nnocents Abroad"
under the title Frozen Truth"
January 8, 1868; and The Star
took a page out of his own book to
twit him in these words:
I'm person Mr.. Clemens is not
the kind of man the spectator 'ex-
pected to see.' OF medium size, a
cast-iron inf1exibility of feature,
grave face, eyes that lack express
sion from their natural hue and
the light color of the broWs, a
drawing speech and a general air
of being about half asleep, Mark
Twain has a very unpromising look
for humor. That imperturbable
drawn is habitual with him; and
he is probably the LATEST walker
that ever stepped
Perhaps Mr.. Clemens was bored.
1t is the judgment of Mr.. Paine
that "he was weary Of Washing
ton, anyway. The whole pitiful ma
chinery of politics disguised him"
But he returned to the city on
several occasions later in life-once
during President Cleveland's first
administration; again in President
Theodore Roosevelt's time. The Star
kept track of his activities sys-
tematically and, when he died, April
81, 1910, paid homage to him in an
editorial which ended, "The news
brings a grievous shock to the Amer
lean people, for it tells of the pass
ing of a friend"
Crosby Stuart Moves, editor Of The
Star, kept the Mark Twain letter
so long as he lived. Then it became
the property Of his daughter. Mrs.
George w. Boyd, who in turn be-
queathed 1t to her son.
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days later.
A literal transcript Of the COM
munication runs as follows:
From Sam Clemens. 224 F street.
A New Cabinet Regulator Wash
ington, Dec. a. Eds. Star: Since
Gideon's Band marched forth against
the children Of the east at dead
of night. each man with his jug in
one hand and a horn in the other,
military history has shown no such
instance Of inspired originality as
the foreign kilograms tell us of this
morning Col Burke, a Fenian pa
triot, is prisoner in Clerkenwell;
his friends desire his liberty. Other
people would have bribed the jailor-
tunneled to the prisoners cell
hauled him out through a hole in
the roof-petitioned government for
his pardon-sent woman in to
swap clothes and change places with
the culprit; other people, I say,
would have essayed one or the other,
or all. of these methods. But did
the Fenians? Not they. They
scorned such threadbare devices.
They would liberate their friend by
some mode that should be worthy of
the occasionally some invention that
should bear about it the sign of a
creative genius-by some untried
plan that should dazzle the sleepy
world with its splendid originality.
Wherefore they put barrel of blast
ing powder under the prisoner and
tried to blow their friend out Of the
hated land of England! The idea
was good. 1t was excellent, and
ought to have succeeded. There was
powder enough to have sent Col.
Burke and his baggage to Dublin,
where he would have been safe from
further persecution, If 1t could have
been deposited under him instead of
off to one side.
Cites Lesson"
THE enterprise failed, but shall
its lesson be lost to us? May we
not use 1t freely, in the absence of
an international copyright system?
In cases where a cabinet officer re-
fuses to resign, and will not be re-
moved, may we not put barrel of
powder under him and blast him
from his position? The thing looks
feasible to me. It is expeditions,
unostentatious and singularly ef-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-10
Mark Twain Once Wrote
Article for The Star
Humorist Inspired to Send
Comment on Experience
OF Fenian Patriot
By James Waldo Fawcetf.

Documentary proof of the claim of Mark
Crosby -
original manuscript of letter which
the famous hmor December The Star
nnhls she'd uthn funS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-10
Story Of Alonzo Chapel
Is One Of Strangest
In History of Art
Turned Out More Than All
Other Americans, Leaving
Few for Posterity
Bv Herman II. Dieys.

One the stranges in the annals Of art that Of Aonzo
interested
ngs of various historical subjects will be surprised find
omitted the encyclopedias dictionaries
but from reference relating
in
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organ Library Revves Interest Widely Differing Book Illustrations
Illuminated Manuscripts
OF Ancients Compared
With Modern Works
Many Examples Contained in
In Corcoran Art Gallery,
Library of Congress
Bv Leila Mechin.

long reach from the illuminated book manuscripts the
centuries the Ppon Morgan Library
the illustrated printed books funda
intention of the illustrator been and the saeto
supplement the illustrator
enters partnership pictures
Evening star., 1939-08-28

Obeying signs beats paying fines.
Evening star., 1939-08-28

from the streets and hills Of this
lovely city-pierce the sky.
There has been no mobilization
Today the Supreme Defense Council
met, under Craftsmanship of Regent
Admiral Nicholas Horthy. A COM
munique was issued stating that the
meeting had dealt with possible de-
Tense measures in every emergency.
Slovak Border Reported Closed.
It is reported here that SlOvakia
under Germany's occupation, has
closed her frontier with Hungary
and that German troops in buses
and trains are pushing forward from
Vienna to Bratislava In Slovakia and
thence to the Polish -Slovakian from
tier area, which looms as an i'm
portant flanking base for the Ger
mans.
Rumors circulate here that
Premier Benito Mussolini is baking
from following Fuehrer Adolf Hitler,
but there Is no confirmation.
Meantime, hungarian -Rumanian
relations are strained. Following
Hungary's rejection of Rumania's
proposal of non-aggressiOn pact,
on the ground that this could not
be reached while Rumanian troops
were massed on the frontier, Hun
gary's counter proposal for good
neighbor' pact, including a Ru-
manian undertaking for the treat
ment Of her Hungarian minority,
has been rejected in Bucharest, it
Is stated here today.
Rumanian Foreign Minister Girl
gore Gafencu at Bucharest, it is
understood, replied that since the
Hungarian minority in Rumania
consisted of Rumanian citizens,
Evening star., 1939-08-28

your own people, have recognized
the insanity of the solutions then
found (meaning at Versailles) as
also the impossibility of maintain
ing 1t lastingly. I am perfectly
clear about the serious consequences
which such conflict will entail.
I believe, however, the Poles would
have to bear the greatest burden,
for regardless of who wins in a war
about this question, the Polish state
OF today will be lost in any way you
calculate.
That our two peoples should now
enter a new, bloody war of destruc-
ton is painful not only for you but
also for me-. Herr Daladier. AS al
ready observed I see no possibility
for us on our part to exert influence
in the direction of reasonableness
upon Poland for correcting a sit
uation that is unbearable for the
German people and the German
Reich.
(SigneO ADOLF HITLER.
Evening star., 1939-08-28
Hungarian Troops
And Police Guard
Budapest Key Points
More Soldiers Are CulIed
Although Mobilization
Hos Not Been Ordered
BY FRANK SMOTHERs.


Chicago Daily News Foreign Correspondent.
BUDAPEST, Aug. 2-Blue-uni-
formed police with swords at their
sides, and brown-clad military SEN
tries with fixed bayonets are guard
ing key posts in Budapest, including
the beautiful bridges over the Dam
ube, following a week end in which
Hungarian Nazi demonstrators were
kept in their place only at the cost
Of clash with the police.
More Hungarian troops are being
called to the colors. Army lorries,
some filled with soldiers, have be-
come common street sights and
orse-drawn, camouflaged carts are
to be seen. Space has been requi-
sitioned in apartments as quarters
for officers called up for duty. Anti
aircraft batteries are in position in
Budapest. At night a searchlight
from a gold-colored Danube bridge
in the center of the town--the wa
ters of the river rejecting the lights
Evening star., 1939-08-28
New Anti-Tank Gun,
Finest in Wor|d,'
To Be Shown 10 GAR.
37-MiIIimeter Weapon,
Guarded Day and Night,
Is Called Army's Best
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 28.-The
Army arranged for small group
of aged Union veterans today its
first public demonstration of new
7-millimeter gun which an officer
called the worlds best anti-tank
weapon and the Army's finest de-
fense weapon"
The demonstration Is the days
biggest event for the IS of the 1000
surviving members of the G. A. r..
attending their 73d national en-
campment.
The gun-a far cry from the
cumbersome field pieces used by
the Boys in Blue" three-quarters
Of century ago-was brought
here from the Government proving
grounds at Aberdeen, Md, under
orders of Assistant Secretary Of
War Louis johnson.
1t. Eli Stevens, commanding a
detachment of the 18th United
States Infantry, the crack regiment
known as the presidents Own" 4"
said the 950-pound gun, after being
tested secretly, was given it's first
showing before Army men at Fort
Howard. Md, Saturday.
Its SO simple baby could oper-
ate it," said 1t. Stevens. Its the
finest anti-tank weapon in the world
it can't be touched.
1T will penetrate Pinch armor
or concrete wall feet thick at
$500 yards. 1t will shoot with ac-
curacy for 7 miles. 1t has the
highest velocity of any weapon
known to the world today-2,6 600
feet per second. It'll put out 25
rounds of ammunition a minute.
by pulling lever you can swing
it freely from side to side and take
care of a number of high-speed
tanks coming at you at once"
The gun is designed to replace
the heavy 1-pounders the Army used
for sniping in the World War. Two
men were required to man the l.
Founders; the new gun needs only
one
Evening star., 1939-08-28

this minority question was q do
mestic affair for Rumania.
The Hungarian governments firm
hand in suppressing the Budapest
Nazi demonstration and guarding
against a repetition is fresh indi-
cation Of Hungary's and Regent
Horthy's desire to maintain neu-
trality. Yet the Nazi demonstration
also reminds all concerned of the
lever which Hitler may he able 10
make OF the internal Nazi movement
here.
tCopyright 1899. by Chicago Daily
News, Inc)
Evening star., 1939-08-28
II Plains Tribes
Engage in 'Powwow'

By the Associated Press
CROW AGENCY, Mont, Aug. %.
"A "powWow' of Indians represent
ing q plains tribes from Alberta,
Canada, to Oklahoma. opened here
today.
Robert Yellowtail, superintendent
OF the Crow reservation, is in charge
of the meeting. the annual five-day
tribal fair of the Crows.
The Washington times., 1939-01-21
COLDSBOROUGH
SEAT IN HOUSE
SOUGHT BY SIX

Even before the official an
nouncement that Representative
T. Alan Goldsborough CD OF
Maryland, would be appointed to
a Federal judgeship was made,
there were six candidates seeking
his seat in Congress.
CANDIDATES LISTED
Those who publicly stated they
would be candidates to succeed
the Eastern Shore Representative
before the presidential nomina'
ton was made public are:
State Senator Thomas F. John
son CDO of Worcester; State
Senator Dudley G.. Roe CD OF
Queen Anne county, and chair
man of the senate finance com
Eittee; State Senator David j.
Ward CD of Wicomico county;
William S. Gordy, jr., former
State comptroller; former State
Senator Earl Bennett (D0 OF
Dorchester county.
Senator Ward, it was learned
already has been endorsed by the
Democratic State Central Com
mittee of Wicomico county. Un
official reports are that Repre-
sentative Goldsborough favorE
Senator johnson as his successor
SPECIAL ELECTION
Nomination of the candidate fol
the House seat will be made BY
the State Democratic Central Com
mittee, while the Republicans will
also name a candidate for the
seat to be vacated. The date o1
the special election to name Colds
borough'S successor will be set BY
Gov. Herbert r. O'Conor withir
20 days after the vacancy occurs
Meanwhile, confirmation Of thu
Maryland Congressman's nomina
ton, which was sent to the Sen
ate yesterday by President Roose
velt, is threatened by Congress
sional leaders from his own State
The Washington times., 1939-01-21
Summers Bill Urges
New Court Director

Chairman Hatton w. Summers
(D), Texas, of the House Judi
ciary Committee, yesterday intro
duceed a bill to create an admin
istratitve office for United States
Courts.
The office would be in charge
of a $1O,000-a-year director and a
$7,500-a-year assistant. They would
be subject to removal by the Chief
Justice or the conference Of senior
circuit judges.
Creation of the office would
transfer to the courts, themselves
activities now handled by the JUS
tice Department concerning the
business end Of the judiciary
eStab bliShment.
The Washington times., 1939-01-21
RUbLEE SEEKS
COER|NG AID ON
REFUGEE PLAN

LONDON, Jan. Fl (I.N.S.).
George Rublee, American direc-
tor of the International Refugee
Committee, conferred with Field
Marshal Hermann Wilhelm GOe-
ring this afternoon and ar
ranged for continuation of con-
versatiOns on the Jewish refugee
problem, according to a Reuter-
dispatch from Berlin.
BERLIN, Jan. 2l Q.N.S) Ne
gotiations between the German
government and George Rublee,
American director of the Evian
Inter Governmental Committee on
Political Refugees, to find a solu-
tion of the problem Of Jewish
emigration from the Reich, will be
continued after a technical re-
organization made necessary by
the removed of DR.. Hjalmar
Schacht from the presidency of
the Reischsbank.
The intention Of the German
government to resume the dis
rupted talks was authoritatively
confirmed today as Rublee and his
aides, Robert T. Pell and Joseph
Cotton, prepared to leave Berlin
ON the North Express tonight.
The foreign office indicated in
directly that further conversations
will probably be desirable some
time in the future on the question
of Jewish immigration.
The talks, automatically sus.
pended when DR.. Schacht was re.
placed at the Reichsbank by DR..
Walther Funk, were said to have
revealed the need for further de.
tailed inquiry into the financial
problems presented by an exodus
of Jews from Germany.
The Qualification of the Ger.
man governments attitude toward
the Rublee negotiations followed
a request for information made
on behalf of the American nego
tiations by PrentiSs Gilbert
American charge d'affaires, in
the absence in the United States
Of Ambassador Hugh r. Wilson.
The Washington times., 1939-01-21
Plane Built
In TWO
Hours

With a new plastic ma
terial making it possible to
construct wings or fuselageS
in two hours, mass production
of airplanes no longer pre-
sents a problem to this ma
tiOn's military experts, George
A. Baekeland, vice president
of the Bakelite Corporation Of
New York, said today.
Testifying before the Con-
gressiOnal interdepartmental
monopoly committee, Baeke-
land said Army and Navy in
tereSts in the new process
prevented detailed deScrip-
tiOns being made public, but
he revealed that through the
use of dies a complete section
of wing or fuselage can be
cast at one time.
The plastic materials,
Baekeland said, eliminate the
use of rivets, give airplaneS
additional lightnesS and will
make possible even greater
speeds. Not only is prOduc-
tiOn time greatly reduced,
but costs are halved, he as
serted. As many as 10 air
planes could be built in one
day from a single set of dies,
he said.