Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1904 — DELPHI HAS A MAGAZINE WRITER [ARTICLE]

DELPHI HAS A MAGAZINE WRITER

Bob Wason, a Delphi young man, somewhat known here, has a short story in McClure’s magazine for September. And as MoClure’s is a critioal publication, as well as one that pays high for its articles it naturally aud properly is considered quite a suooess for him to have one of his stories published in it. It is said also that he has had other articles published in different njagazines. This particular story, while it gives evidence of ooneiderable literary ability and promises good work in the future, strikes us as of hardly sufficient merit to have entitled it to the place of honor it has as the second article in the magazine. The story is of a charge by Zeo Stuart’s Rebel cavalry in the civil war, and of the superhuman deeds done by a big and wild young Virginian, and then of a long speil he makes to his horse after the battle is over and he and the horse are alone together and both mortally wounded. The feats of Yankee slaughter he accomplishes with his sword, while with the other hand he waves bis old slouoh hat in the air at the end of a stick, as a "Helmet of Navarre” as he says, or a Hel met a lot of Yankees, as the story reads, would disoount old Riohard Couer De Lion, when he smashed up old Front De Boeuf and most of his men in the storming of some plaoe or other in Scott’s Ivanhoe. And the long address he makes to his mare, when bbth are dying and with no audience but her, is the rankest string of mawkish flabbergast we have encountered for many a long day.