Indianapolis Journal, Volume 52, Number 22, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1902 — Page 5

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cf the Philistine, but in tho profundity and grrrral seriousness of its contents very different from that frivolous periodical. Thi current i?ue Is '.evote.l larcHy to an "appreci.itl .-.n" of Tolstoy, by Clarence S. Darrow. John Vance Cheney anl Harriet Mor.rrie ate other contributor?. The Rubric emanates from ChlcaK. Mr. H. White, a well-known illustrator of the Figaro Illustre, who has recently returned to America after a prolonged residence there, asserts that nowhere in Paris could ho And ."uch opportunities for sketching as are present everywhere alor.f? the waterfront 'f New York. To make pood his point Mr. White has executed a larse number of sketches taken at random aloni the e.ire? of NVw York city, which are publl-hed in the February number of Leslie's Monthly. The grtat voue of the amateur camera 1 shown in an entirely new phase In the article entitled "Hunting' with the Camera," in the February number of Pearson's Magazine. That a man with nearly thirty years' -xpTience of ordinary hunting should b2 converted to the ue of a camera instead of a t;un is an Interesting fact in Itself, and the account of Mr. Shiras's methods should interest a large class of

read. rj. The illustrations are from photographs by Mr. Shiras himself trophies of hi -5 "hum in et" and won a gold medal at the recent Paris exposition. Another feature of the number Is an article on Cecil Ithodes and his home at Cape Town. As alrcidy announced, the Century la to print In the February and March numbers authoritative articles on the contemplated improvements of Washington city, which have attracted so much attention in the press, and which. It is expected, will make Washington perhaps the most beautiful of modern cities. The contributions in the February number will consist of articles entitled "White City and Capital City." by Daniel II. Burnham, the architect, chairman of thq commission; and the first of two papers on the plans in detail, by Charles Moore, clerk of the Benate committee on the District of Columbia, who traveled abroad with the commission. The text will be supplemented by Illustrations. To many persons having only the most general acquaintance with archaeology the literature which deals in an untechnical way with the relics of prehistoric races has a curiou fascination. No doubt the projectors of the new periodical. Records of the Past, issued at Washington. I). C. had thii taste in mind, for the contents of the lir?t number are of a kind to attract the attention of the casual reader as well as thu Fk.lllt.-d archaeologist. Rev. Henry Mapon Daum, the chief editor, writes of American antiquities, but the largest part of the number is devoted to a paper by Albert A. Hopkins, on "Pompeii; Its Life and Art." Archaeological Interest In Asiatic Kussla" and "The Rlloam Inscription and Truncation" are subject? of other papers. The Illustrations are numerous and good. The Era (Philadelphia) is now much more than a periodical dealing with new books and other strictly literary topics. It has taken on many magazine features, the January number opening with an account of the work of the royal academician, Alfrod East. Some beautiful illustrations accompany the papt-r. The opening chapters of "Gabriel Tolliver." a serial by Joel Chmdlei Harris, appear in this issue. The promise is that it will contain a good deal of the "Uncle Remus" element. Uncle Kemus in this case being "Uncle Plato." In a recent note to the publishers Mr. Harris paid: "The book is not precisely autobiographical, but it is something more than reminiscent, for 1 have put myself into It in the most unreserved way. When I ceckled to quit newspaier work, I turned to this work, and when I began it, I determined to write it in my own way, without regard to models, standards or formalism of any kind. I determined to write something to please myself. The result is what you have. It Is mine; it is me. I do not say this on account of any pride I have in the work; it is perhaps faulty, but even the faults are mine. I mean by this that I surrendered myself wholly to the story and its characters, and the ioVa of art simply never occurred to me until the thing was complete." He Is a real lover of books, the unnamed man who edits the Rook Lover "a magazine of booklore" for the Hock-Lover Press of New York city. Into this quarterly publication is gathered from many sources matter dealing with books, their writers and the various phases of things literary. It Is a compilation entirely, but so large a proportion of Its contents would not mtet the rye of the majority of readers in their original location that its pages have all the Interest of fresh, contributed j matter. The opening paper in the current number treats of the Kelmscott press and offers much information which even those who talk Kllbly of William Morris's work may find new and interesting. A list of the Kelmscott books, with their prices. Is also a feature. Several articles are of interest to book collectors: "Facts for the Bibliophile." "Fashion in Book Collecting." "Rook-hunting as a Business." "To All Young Collectors and Some Old Ones," etc. Other readable matter Includes "Ten Missing Years of Shakspeare's Life," "Literature ns an Anodyne," "Privately Illustrated Books." "When Novels Pali." This periodical of 100 pages is really a mine of literary lore.

tions thus defeat their own purpose, with the result that the diligent Journalist, writing against time, sometimes turns out "copy" -Ith a life and energy in it that, even from an artistic point of view, give it a higher value than is possessed by the feeble offspring of the prolonged In ibatlon of the dilettante. To change tn- figure, the need of earning one's bread u an unkindly spur, but some of the finest horses in the literary paddock will not make their best speed without, it. WOJII1! AS XOVHL1STS.

Tim PROFESSION OF WRITIXO.

It I Practiced Successfully Under Widely Differing Conditions. New York Times Literary Review. Not a few successful writers of the day their brains already mortgaged to publishers for several years ahead will read with envy of the courage of James Russell Lowell as revealed In the recent biography by Mr. Scudder. To his first editor he says: "I should not like to bind myself to write every week, though I have no doubt that I shall be able to," and twenty-five years later he declines an offer of N.OOO a year to write four pages monthly. It was a great price to pay for freedom, but Lowell decided that he could not afford not to pay it. It will be remembered that R. L. Steventon once allowed himself to sign a similar contract, but that he groaned so heavily under the bond that he never yielded to euch a temptation again. His creative mood did not vifdt him according to the calendar; he had no regular "at home" days for inspiration. He aptly expressed his quarrel with the Journalist's method by stigmatizing it as "will worship." "The will," he said, "is only to be brought into the field for study and again for revision The essential part of work is not an actIt is a state." ' The world needs both the Journalist and the literary artist, but it is not necessary that both shall be incorporated in one person or be Fubject to the same discipline The time limit alone affects both the preparation and style of the journalist. It makes impviMe such an rxpp mliture os that of Lowell on a review of Wedgwood's Dictionary-six days, three of twelve solid hours each. It prohibits entirely that most salutary revision which is practiced by leaving an article for two or three months and then looking over it as thousrh it wore another's work. It requires, on the whole, the facility of talent rather than the penetration of genius. Rut the man of letters, in his revolt acralnst outside pressure, is sometimes In danirer of giving too great scope to the peculi.iritits of his own tcmperment. It is whobsomo for a writer to hold before himself such a high standard and to be so critical of his own productions that he fhrlnks from putting before the public anything that bears a trace of carelessness or crudity. Uut criticism may degenerate into hypercritieism. Waiting for the divine afflatus may become a euphemism for indolence. The literary conscience, like other consciences, may be cultivated to such a JKrie that It Is op;iro?ed ty scruple, and loses a plain man s sVn-e of the distinction betve-n ritrht an1 wroner in an exaggerted resi-'ct fr.r punctilios. Elaborate prccau-

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Tli Public Inalt flint Thry Write of Their Own Experiences. New York Evening Sun. Mrs. Craigle (John Oliver Hobbes) spoke recently at the New Vagabond's Club In London of the popular belief that women who write represent themselves in the persons of their heroines. "A blameless lady

of my acquaintance," she said, "who J

takes a large view of humanity and writes Ftories which are described as powerful, was asked the other day, by an earnest Inquirer whether she really intended to

leave her excellent husband, hfr delightful children, and jola a rapturous violinist on the continent. The earnest inquirer went on to say that he hoped the rumor was based on some misapprehension. I hastened to add It was. Another friend of mine, singularly handsome, happy and accomplished, wrote a romance. Her husband occupies an Important public post. She is herself the daughter of a distinguished politician. Well, she wrote, as I have said, a romance; it was very clever, absolutely lifelike. She read It to her sisters. They all agreed that It was admirable; they said they wouldn't wonder if the book showed genius, but they all agreed it could not be published. Why not? Because, said the sisters, every one will think that it Is about all of us and that will never do; they will say you are in love with somebody, and are going to do something foolish. So my accomplished young frlne-d has decided to publish under some such name as Samuel E. Tompkins, and on this understanding her family think she may yet be presumed to enjoy a normal degree of felicity, and tho ordinary number of nice relations." Mrs. Craigte went on to point out that though the ridiculous side waB moet apparent, there was also a serious side to the matter, Inasmuch as it resulted in a severe tax on originality. In what follows she was manifestly thinking of "Lucas Malet," the guest of the evening: "It is unreasonauie for readers to suppose that an author approver and holds up for example every type of character which h or she may describe. For instance, if any well-known academician should paint 'Ariade Forsaken,' it would not be assumed that It conveyed any sinister hint to the world at large that he intended to abandon his wife. But when we come to a book or a play signed by a woman's name tha case is altered. She is not supposed to care instinctively for literature; on Infers that she falls back upon it, as it were, as a distraction from unhappiness, or because she ints to do good, or because she wishes to make mischief. Plain facts, without comment, from a woman are considered very alarming indeed. This is why she Is too often driven, in mere self-defense, to frame her narrative in solid moralizing. She may perhaps tell anything she pleases, but she must make It quite clear on every page that she i3 pained and shocked by the moral instability of mankind and the disastrous fascination of her own deplorable sex."

A Literary Mystery. W. L. Alden's London Letter. The mystery of the publication of such inordinate quantities of worthless novels haj never been solved. Possibly, the authors bear the expense of publication; but this is not very probable. Occasionally, an author has fo much confidence In the merit of his or her book that after it has been rejected by all the publishers the author still ha3 the courage to place it on the market. But the number of authors who do this 1, I believe, very small. It must be that the publishers, as a rule, are tho most benevolent of men, and are willing to publish books merely to please the authors, and with the moral certainty that the books will never repay the cost of production. I have never personally met with that sort of publisher; but if he does not exist how shall we account for the publication of hundreds of novels that are without a single merit? So far as I can learn, the author of a new novel who Is wholly unknown is reasonably sure of finding a publisher who will publish the book and pay from 10 to JCao in advance on account of royalty. In nine cases out of ten, the publisher never recoups himself; but that docs not discourage him in the least. The old theory that the publisher Is the enemy of authors is manifestly wrong. Surely, he is the kind and generous friend of the hundreds of glria and men who write silly novels. Without his self-sacrificing generosity, such novels would never be put Into print.

WIPE MUEDERER HANGED.

John Lut Executed for Urninlnc Ills Sleeping: Wife vlth an Axe. WILKESBARRE, Ta., Jan. 21. John Lutz was hanged to-day for tho murder of his wife. The drop fell at 10:17. Lutz kept his nerve until the noose was placed over his head, when he gave way and would have collapsed had he not been supported by the sheriff. Tha crime for which Lutz paid the extrem penalty was particularly brutal. On the vening of Nov. 23, 1SD3, he became enraged because his wife did not desire their caughter to play on an organ, as the child was 111. Lutz left the house and returned at midnight with an ax. Proceeding to the room where Mrs. Lutz and her daughter were sleeping he brained his wife and than retired to his own room, where he was arrested the next day. At the first trial the Jury was out sixteen days before returning a rtrst-degree verdict. One of the Jurors informed the judge that he had been impelled by slcknass to sign the verdict, which was against his conscience. Lutz was given anew trial and was promptly convicted.

Convict Hansell for Killing; a Pnmaer JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Jan. 21.-J. L. Craft, a convict at the State penitentiary, was hanged in the county jail here today for the murder of Henry S. Pleker, a member of a posse who tried to arrest him after he had escaped from prison. Craft, at the tlmo of his recapture, was shot by the posse, but recovered and was tried and convicted of murder in the Cole County Court. Yesterday Governor Dockery pardoned Craft cf his prison sentence in order that h might be hanged.

For Killing; a ftren. KANSAS CITY. Mo., Jan. Cl.-Albert Garth, colored, who killed Minnie Woods, a negress here, on Dec. 22, 1?0D, was hanged at the county jail at 9 o'clock this morning. Garth slept fairly well last night and walked bravely to the scaffold, maintaining comparative calm to the end. Garth was a laborer and was twenty-six years old. Several movements were made to secure executive clemency. Ttto Hanged from Same Scaffold. NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 21. Two negro murderers paid the renalty of their crimes at Mississippi City, Miss., at noon to-day. Lewis Johnson, the ae8apin of City Marshal Richardson, of Gulfport, and Victor Johnson, who brutally murdered a little girl at Pass Christian, were hanged from the same scaffold in the presence of a large crowd. Lewis was seized with religious fervor and' shouted from the trap, while Victor was too badly frightened to speak.

TOOK HIS OWN LIFE.

Suicide of the I-'ormer Snpremc lleeurder of the Legion of Honor. ST. LOUIS. Jan. 21. William II. Hoffmelster, of St. Louis, ex-suprme recorder of the Ieion of Honor, committed suicide at the Planters Hotel to-day by shooting himself with a revolver. The only witness to the suicide was George M. Ackley, of Kansas City. Deputy Coroner Boogher was notified and took charge of the remains. Mr. Hoffmelster was defeated last night for re-election as supreme recorder of the Legion of Honor by C. R. T. White, and an entirely new supreme council was elected after a Eensational contest. One feature of the strusg'-e was the arrest of Otto A. Overbeck, candidate for supremo chancellor, the highest otnee in the order, leader of the opposition to the administration. Air. Overbeck was arrested by a detective as he was entering the Holland building on his way to the meeting where the election was to bo

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held. At the Four Courts a complaint was lodged against Mr. Ovprbt-ck for carrying a concealed weapon. Friends of the Overbeck ticket, however, procured Mr. Overbeck' release on bond and hurried with him to the meeting- hall, where they arrived In time to vote, hla one vote being necessary to win. George M. Ackley, of Kansas City, former supremo overseer of the Legion of Honor, who shared the room with Hoffmeistcr last nigrht. tated that he was In the bathroom adjoining the sleeping compartment when Hoffmeistcr shot himself with Arklry's revolver. Ackley says Hoffmelster killed himself, as he believed, because he was defeated In his candidacy for re-election to the office of supreme recorder. "Hoffmeistcr was drinking last night." said Ackley, "and lie told me there would be trouble. I knew he had a revolver and I took It from him and locked It up. My own revolver was in my valise and It was tha weapon with which he shot himself." Mr. Hoffmelster was forty years old. He had held the ortlce of supreme recorder of the order for thirteen years. The coroner returned. verdict of suicide. Gen. Wilson' Qualification. Boston Herald. Gen. James II. Wilson, who pocs to the coronation as the representative of our army, is scarcely so well known to the public at large as he deserves to be. He Is ranked as the most eminent living American soldier, his military record In our civil war being far above that of any other survivor. He has commanded more men in the field than any American poidir now liviiii;. and had he remained in the service continuously he would have been at the head ox the army, instead of Gen. Miles. Story of a Wrong. Philadelphia Record. "The other day my little boy found an old pocketbook in a bureau drawer," siM a West Philadelphia man, "and asked his mother If he mifiht have it to play with. It was nn old one that she had long ago discarded, and ?he gave It to him. Child-like, he was soon pulling it to pieces, and brought to light a ?LJ bill. Naturally my wife cudgeled her brains to

find out how It had come there and suddenly the solution of the mystery dawned upon her. Fully two years ago she had missed $20 from this same pocketbook, which she at that time usd for her household expenses, euch as marketing and the like. We had a German servant girl then and the girl had access to the pocketbook in paying the minor expensts. My wife accused her of taking the money, and, in nplte of her tearful protestations of Innocence, she was dismissed in disgrace. The bill must have worked its way down into the lining. My wife Is going to advertise for the girl, and if we find her we shall make whatever restitution is possible."

ruF.smcxT is a good walker.

He Shows a. Yoanu Diplomat What Ha Can Do In that Line. Washington Special. During one of tho crisp, bright afUrnoom of the week past a young diplomat waa tempted to take a constitutional across the hills to the north of the city. He was tramping' alon an unfrequentel road, when suddenly a sturdy hgure joined his path from a crossing lane. He recognized the President and saluted. The latter vers Jovially returned hl3 reetln. and Inquired: "Can you walk?" The young man assented. "Well, walk along with me." The President started at a brisk pace. He led the way over hills and through the beautiful little valleys which dotted the northern country of the district. During an hour he showed that young man mor of sylvan beauties than he dreamed existed o near the capital. President Hoosevelt is lamiliar with evry cowpath in the country surrour.dine. as pedestrianism is not a new fad with him, but a passion surviving from the days when he was performing service of his country here In Washington. At the end of an hour the diplomat was healthily tired, if he was not fagged. At this time they are at the foot of a lon?r hill, with opening forest trees all around. "Can you run? Well. then, com alonfr." And up the steep the President led the way. When they reached the summit the President paused and calmly and with good breath pointed out the beauties of the city

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