THE SCRAOTON TRIBUNE SATURDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 28, 1895.
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Notices of Recent Interesting Volumes and
Chats Concerning Literary Men and Women.
v "THE MATTER'S MOUV
In the telling of a simple tale with un
erring appeal to the elemental human
emotions, few of our younger authors
equal and none. In present recollection,
surpass Cram Stoker. He employs the
Scotch dialect with a flexibility and
and he commands the chorda of human
feeling with a sureness of artistic
toudh which Is paramount to all dia
lects. In a handy volume the Apple
tons have Issued the latest of Mr. Sto
ker's novels, which in Its title. "The
'Walter's Mon'," suggests the spectacle
of maddened ocean waves dashing
aga4nst forbidding clltTs, that forms
tihe story's background. It is a tale ot
few and modest Incidents t'he plot. In
a word, concerns the heroism of a
smuggler's daughter who braves the
stormy sea 'to warn her raWier of im
pending danger and perishes on the
Journey back to shore yet the flue
touches and strong delineations In Its
2U.OU0 words would suttlce to vitalise a
whole shelf-ful of the average anemic
fiction of our time.
' I. -A Bit of Description.
Bram Stoker plunges at once Into the
midst of 'things, and 'in his very first
paragraph gives us rare specimen of
word-painting:
lc threatened to be a wild nlffht. All
day banks of sea-fog had come und gone,
sweeping on shore with the noutlicust
wind, which Is so fatal at Cruilen buy,
and losing themselves in the breezy ex
panses of the high uplands beyond. As
yet, the wind only came in pun, fol
lowed by Intervals of ominous calm; but
DAbarometer had been falling for days,
and the sky had on the previous night
been streaked with great "mare's tails"
running In the dlretlon oil the dangerous
wind. From the waste of nea came a
ceastde.H muffled roar, which seemed
loudest and most full of danKerous im
port when ;t came through the mystery of
the driving fog. Whenever the fog-belts
would Hft or disperse, or disappear in
land before' the gusts of wind, the sea
would look as though swept with grow
ing anger; for though there were neither
big waves, as during a storm, nor a irreiii
swell, as after one. all the surface of the
hfte. t'loser together grew tnese waves
4 the iIav wore on. nmi anirrier evpr tne
a the North sea It does not take long
I!. 'Twist Love and Duty.
ews ml uii vxuei'ieu run uy me
iil l in n .ir.riiiii.iiii, ,,, 11 1 1 1 1 in Hi
1 . . .1 ! M .1 nnnM
eiiuii nun reueneu me eAcme umu.
one or them, a fine Scotch lad.
illor Willy," Is especially anxious to
libit vigilance In his scrutiny for ill-
fling, 'because thereby he hopes to win
amotion and wed Maggie Macwhirt-
the daughter of an old fisherman.
i had seen his best days. Willy, nt
it, braves the storm to watch a sus-
L'ted point In the coast known as the
tiers Mou," and 19 there suddenly
Ironted by Maggie, who with many
litems of excitement and dismay
' to Induce the lad, for love of her,
abate a little of his official stern
ss. Willy, astonished, questions her
i her reasons, and amidst shame and
(s she tells how her father, at the
pluslon of a cruel creditor, had been
Ito head a smuggling sortie which
I expected In that night. There fol-
i this scene, vivid in its irue reat
Y topped affrighted, for Willy put her
rum 10 ui in 8-icnKiii iiui t.uw b""j
-and saiu to ner, so sterniy mai
vord seemed to Bmlte her Ike the
t a whip, till she shrunk and quiv
nd cowered away from him:
Iggle, lusa, what a this you're say-
me? It Isn't nt ror you to speaa or
I. h..,l Kail Am.iicrh t it hft n
fgler. but what is it that you would
, 9 a,, i.ntu " niLiirtili.r Kut a
firer and a traitor, too! Ood! Am I
aKt-n.' IS it you. aiagg:?, mat wouiu
Ltfr.s or me: ui me: aiaggie .nae-
tr tn:s De your counsel, men
Put both! You are no fit wife for
an Instant the whole truth dawned
S Maggie of what a thing she would
e of the man she loved, whom she
loved t the first because he was
ng and brave and true. In the sud
roviilalnn of her feelimrs she flung
Iself on her knees beside Mm, and took
hand and held it nam, anu, uespue ni
T-ta n at Ibriris It. kissed It Wildly in
humility of her self-abasement, and
red out to n.m a cHsnionine uuimum
lleadlng ror his forgiveness. 01 jus
Ition of herself, and of appeals to his
for her rather.
iVilly, Willy! dinna turn frae me this
Mv heart is sae fu' 0' trouble that
tW aH.a.14 . f A'n.n trail What itJIrt rWlA
(where tae look for help! I think and
and think, snd everywhere mere is
it but dark before me. Just as there
rkness oot over tne sea wnen i iook
, father. And now. when I want ye
I. me v that are all I hae, and
Aly a tie on earth that I can look tae
r mn anri troublm I can do no more
an turn e frae me! ye that I love oh.
bve more 'Mian mv fcfe or mv soul! Oh,
rVhut tfhall 1 dae? What I iae? what
Kail r rinsf" njirfl .rain ih beat the naims
of her hands together 'in a paroxysm of
wVld despair, whle wailie rooKM on w.t,n
hie heart full of pafn aed p ly, though his
heart full of pain snd pity, though his
resolution never flinched. And then
through ths completeness of her self
abasement came the pleading of her soul
from a depth of her nature even deeper
than despair. Despair has its own
bravery, but hope can sap the strongest
resolution. And the pleadings of love
came from the depths of that Pandora's
box which we rail human nature.
"O Willy, Willyl forgive me, forgive me!
I was daft to say what I did! I was daft
to think that ye would be so base!--daft
to thtnk that I would like you to betray
yoursel'l Forgive me. Willy, forgive me,
and tak my wild words as spoken not tae
ve. but to Mm) storm that makes me fw4
ae for my father! Lt m tan :.t all wick,
Wlllv .U.rt'n' Willlv. mv Willy! and illn-
fia leave me dmnDate here with this new
hadow over me!"
Here as she kissed his hand again, her
lover stooped and raised her in his strong
arms and held her to him. And then,
when she felt herself In a position of se
curity, the same hysterical emotion came
sweeping up In her brain and her blood
th same self-abandonment to her lover
'overcame her and the current of her
thought once again turned to win from
him something by the force of her wo
man's wile and her woman's contact with
th man.
i "WMIIv sh whinnered, as she k sseil
on the mouth and then kissed his
1 on the aide of his neck "Willy, ye
forgiven me, I ken; and I ken that
f harm father nae malr than ye can
1 sut If "
Shat more she was going to say she
dly knew herself. As for W'llv. he felt
pmethlftfr better left unsaid wu com
tnd unconsciously his muscles et'.ff
funtll he held her from him rather
ito him. She, too, felt the change,
feld him closer closer still with the
ity Induced by a sense of coming
er. Th!r difficulty was solved for
a, for Just on the Instsnt when the
-Jtf.on of treachery to his duty was
sing on her lips there csme from the
fge below. In a pause between the
is of wind, the fierce roar ofa flying
I ITt-Tbe tlotorv of Doty.
Y answering bf this rocket signal
lut to sea brought Willy to the
k of his official responsibility. It
(served a a stimulus to the girl's
lentarlly overpowered cotjsc fence,
cene whioh follows Is arte of the
igestones la our memory, with each
41 so adjusted aa to give true ar-
0 effect;
ooast -guard was for ths CrnKamt un
!n as to the signal's meaning, but to
)s,no explanation was necessary,
away at sea, tossed o the stormy
, was her father. There was dan
und Km, but a greater danger on
tore. Every way of entrance was
I by the storm save the one where,
A bis fatal cargo, dishonor lay In
'or him. She seemed to see her duty
fore her, and come what .might
the
warned; It was with a faint voice indeed
that she now spoke to her lover:
His heart was melted at the faltering
vuiiTi mil ne leareu me wn
new temptation, so. coldly and hardly
ciiuiiifii, lit; niisnrirti,
"What is It, lass?"
"Willy, ye wadna, sea poor father
Jured?" . .
ftu, Aiuggie, not ii x i'ouiu iitii
But I'd have to to do my duty, all
it
the
waim.
"And we should all dae oor duty what
evei it might be ut a' costs?"
"Aye. lass, at all costs!" His voice wus
firm enough now, and there was no m
tdiiiiiiir ih. irntii r its rili if. Mugg.i
hone died away. From the stern tu
which seemed to rise before4 her over
......... . . ,i. uui. uhu mnal
he
not
shrink. There was but one more yield
ing to the weukness of hur feur; and she
said, so timidly that Willy was startled,
the voice and niunner were so different
from tnoso ne nau ever kiiuhh.
"And if-mind, I say Tf,' Willy 1 had
dutv tae dae, and it was fu' of fear ni
.1 ... .. .1 ..A ......LI . ... frno It. VL-I
miiKvi, a tin s wum " '
ye?" As she waited for his reply her
heart beat so last anu so neuviiy n
Willy could hear It; her very lire, sin
fell, lay In his answer. He did not quit'
understand the full import of her word:
and (ill IlKlt they implied, but he kney
thut she was deadly in earnest, and he fel
that some vague terror lay in his an
swer; but the manhood In him rose to thi
occasion Willy Harrow was of the stuf
of which heroes are made and he replied
.., .1.. .... 1 nlu.ua 11U I llllVe IK
other answer to glvel 1 don't know whuf
you ineiin, but I havejt shuilow.or a tear
I must do my duty whatever comes of It!
There was a long pause, and then Mug'
.,...,1,.. d.,.!,, Knt- ih'a im In ho differ
ent a voice that her lovet's heart went
out to hes In tenfold love-and passion
wun never u mauun ui
"willy, tBK nie in your iirnis i mn "ui
. l. ,innl. K.ni,rh r,- ii mnment
lilt v, ui i ii . v.-t .
.11.1 ..l,nM U nlndlw.l hl.1 eloMO til llilll
my.
, ...li ..i ,..l.ui, Ku I'na mitt:
Hll'l WII.BCI'.ll. lie. ,..
"Maggie, my darling. I never loved you
I ke now. I would die for you If 1 could
do you goou.
"Hush, dear, I ken It weei. But you
nHiu ?,, vnurfii.lV nnil It nmn
iiuiy i iiv wiuj w". - i --
be done! I, too, hue a duty tae due-a
grave and stern ane!"
'ki i u Tell me. Macra e, dear.
"Ye maunna ask me! Ye mauii never
ken! Kiss me once again. Willy, before
1 go for oh, my love, my love! It may be
Her words were lost In the passionate
einnrnce wn:cn joiioweu.
he least expected it, she suddenly tore
, . .1 ,Kimiirh t hll flark-
ness across the field which lay between
them and her home; while he stood dog
gedly at 1 watc. looking out for another
signal uetween sen uii" nuv.
IV.-Concluslon.
There Is Inevitable sadness In the
story's ending, and, as in real life, the
penalty of transmission falls with even
greater force upon the Innocent than
upen ttie guilty. In a slight row boat,
at Infinite peril, Maggie dares tlio tre
mendous sea, raaches her father's ship,
warns father and brother of the arrest
which awaits their attempt to land
contraband goods, waits to hear tne or
der given for .the incriminating cargo
to be tossed overboard, and then re
turns to her little boat and shoves off
in the storm and darkness, for shore
and home. The ship at dawn sails
bolJlv Into harbor, and to the Coast
men's surprise is found to be free of
Illicit contents. But the brother, who
had -gone home to see if 'Maggie had
landed In safety, suddenly bursts Into
the group of spectators on the shore
and announces that she is lost. A day
and a night of anxious search ensues,
every person in all that country volun
teering - lor hc quest, Dm tnere is
n It her sign nor hint of the missing
girt s presence. Alone, thhrougri It all,
Willy, led by dumb instinct, his senses
dulled by grief, keeps watch at the
high promontory which overlooks the
Watter's Mou'. Toward the night of
tne second aay a new storm arises. The
author proceeds:
Toward sunset the very electricity of
nie mi- mitue mi animate nature so nerv.
ous that men ami women could not sit
quiet, but moved restlessly. Susceptible
women longed to scream out and vent
their feelings, as dfcl the cattle in the
meadows with their clamorous lowing, or
the birds wheeling restlessly aloft with
articulate cries. Willy Harlow stuck
steadfastly to his post. He had some feel
ingsome presentment that thern would
soon db a nappening what, he knew not;
but, as all his thoughts were of Magaie.
it must surely be of her. It may have
w?n mat me inunuerous uisturDanca
- wrought on a system overtaxed almost
beyond human endurance, for It was two
whole nights since he had slept. Or It
may have been that the recoil from de
spair was acting on his strong nature In
mo way mat ur.ves'men at tunes to des
pcrato deeds, when they rush Into the
thick of battle, and, fighting, die. Or It
may e.mjiiy nave been that the seaman In
him spoke through all the ways and of
fice of ia.it net and habit, and that with
the foreknowledge of coming stress woke
the power that was to combat with It.
For great natures of the fighting kind
move with their surroundings, and the
spirit or tne sailor grew with the storm
pressure whose might he should have to
urave.
Down came the storm In one wild, fren
xied burst. All at once the waters seemed
to rise, throw ng great sheets of foam
from the summit of the lifting waves.
The wind whistled high nnil low. and
screamed as it swe-pt through the rigging
or tno nag stair, r wanes or hvntning and
rolling thunderclaps seemed to come to
gether, so swift their succession. The
rain Tell In torrents, so that within a few
moments the whole earth seemed one
lllmy sheet, shining In the lightning
flashes that rent the black clouds; und
burn . and rill and runlet roared with
rushing water. All through the hamlet
men and worn, even the hurdlest, fled to
rheltc-r af'l rave the one who paced the
rocks above the Water's Mou", pewing nil
he hid done for many an hour flown Into
im l-;itns In low h m m the pauses of his
seaward glance. Something seemed to
tell him thut Maggie was coming closer
tl him. He could feel her presence In the
air and the sea; and the memory of that
long, pass'onate kiss which hud made her
h's came back, not as a vivid recollection,
but as something of te living present.
To and fro he paced, as If some fatal fas
cination was holding him to the vigil.
He saw the great waves come into the
cove, tumbling anil roaring, dipping deep
under the lee of the Sh'm's Stsrn in wide
patches of black, which In the dark si
lence of their onward sweep, stood out In
strong contrast to the white turmoil of
the churning waters under his feet. Kv
ery now and again a wave grestcr thsn
all Its fellows would ride In with all the
majestx of resistless power, shutting out
for a moment the Jogged whiteness of the
submerged rocks, and swooning up the
cove as though the brlnger of some royal
message from the sea.
As one of these great waves rushed 'n,
Willy's heart beat loudly, and for a sec
ond he looked around as though for some
voles, from whence he knew not, which
was calling to him. Then he looked down
snd saw, far below him,, tossed high upon
the summit of the wave, a mass that In
the gloom of the evening and the s'om
looked like a tangle of wreckage-spir
snd sail and rope twirling In the rus.v
Ing water round a dead woman, whose
white face was ret In an aureole of flont
Ing hair. Witout a word but with the
bound of a panthsr, Willy Barrow sprang
out on the projecting point of roek, and
plunged down Into the rushing wave
whence he could meet that preclot
wreckage and grasp It tight.
In the gray of the morning a flsher-boy
rushed up to a knot of men who were
clustered round the guard-house, and
called to them: "There's somethln' wol
lopln' aboot 1' the shallows be the Hat
ley-mill! Come an get It oot! It loom
like some ane!" flo there was a rush
made to the place. When they got to ths
Islands of sea-grass the ebbing tide had
done Its work, -and stranded the "some
thing" which had rolled amid the shal
lows. There, on the very spot where the
boat had set sail on- its wanring -errand,
lay Its wreckage, and tangled In. it the
body of the noble girl who had steered
it her , brown hair floating wide and
twined round the neck of- Bailor Willy,
who held her tight Cn his dead arms.
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AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS: . ,
Mrs. E. Lynn Linton's new novel, 'The
One Too Many," has already- reached its
third edition, while Grant .AUen'a "At
Market Value" has old out two editions
In the first month of Its publication.
"Kort Franye." the latest story by Can-
tain Charles King, has reached Its fifth
edition.
Robert Buchanan seems to have caught
the public fancy in his last story, "Kachel
ns, now riving a reauy sum.
"The Kinfc-a.n Yellow." about which
there has been so much controversy
among the cr tics, will soon be published
in uerman ana rTencn. .
Tolstoy's "Master and Man," with an In-
troduction by Robert W. Chambers, pub-
i:eneu oy rueery, soiu to tne tn.rd eu
tion during the first week it was -.ssued.
"The land of Promise" Is the title of a
new novel by Paul Hourget. which r .
Tennyson Neely w.ll .publish at once. This
autnor pra se or America and our people
has made him very popular.
It Is not generally known that a sister
or Kottert Loirs titevenson Is a literary
worker. She is Mrs. tie Alaito. a contrib
utor to the London magaalnes and one of
the wits of the Literary Ladies' Dinner
ciuu.
Count Leo Tolstoy Is engaged upon a
new novel in which the Russian district
courts of Justice will be described and
er.tlclsed. Tolstoy Is known to entertain
very little respect for Russlun Judiciary
methods.
Hiefrurd Henry Savage is now In Russia,
and promises In publisher a book which
shall excel all his former efforts. Colonel
Suvuge Is visiting h.s daughter, now mur
r.ed to a Uusslun nobleman, and may lutel
pay a visit to Tolstoy.
t'oniin lHiyle has purchased some land
near the top of H liKlhead, Hcotlund, und
Is about to build himself a house In thut
charming and bracing luculity. For some
time pust, un account of Airs. Doyle's
health, they have spent the severe parts
of the year at Davos.
French dramatic authors seem to bo
long-lived. Adolph D'Knnery and Kugetie
Cormon, Joint authors or "The Two or
phuns." are both 87; Krnest Lcgouve, sen
Jor member of the Academic Krancaise, Is
88, and Ferdinand Dugue, outhor of "Tho
Pirates of the 8:tvunnuh." "The Ragpick
er's Daughter" and many other melo
dramus, Is SU.
Edward W. Townsend's novel, "A
Daughter of ' the Tenements," is nearly
ready for publication. It Is mentioned as
having "an enthralling plot," and those
Who delight lu the lively tales of "Chim
in c Fadden" are looking forward with
curiosity to this story, whlvh is to test
Mr. Townsend's ability to do something
more than sketch.
A London paper hears that a Arm of
publishers In America has offered Sarah
llernhardt f32.tmu for her autobiography
and remarks thut "this beats by fl2,0U0
the check whkh the Messrs. Longmans
paid Alacauley for 'one edition of a book,'
as Mucaulcy himself expressed it, the
book being his 'History' " The same pa
per adds that "it does not appear that
Mme. Uernhardt has begun her uutoblog
ruphy. She Is collecting her materials."
Following close upon tho announcement
of her divorce from Mr. Cralgiie comes the
announcement that "John Ol.ver Hobbes"
Is to wed Ueorgo Moore. Mrs. Cralgio
and Mr. Moore have been engaged In
literary collaboration for some time past
and It will not be a surprise to those who
know Miem that their Intellectual friend
ship has ripened into something stronger.
The author of "Celibates" will now have
an opportunity to write a novel on
"Benedicts."
Stanley J. Weyman was married this
month. Mr. Weyman has more than once
spoken of himself as a. "hardened bache
lor." He lives most of the year at Lud
low, Shropshire, visiting London but little
and abstaining, with rare reticence, from
pulling himself Into vulgar notoriety. He
Is a fair amateur sportsman, shooting a
little, fishing a little and much addicted to
beagles, and during his Oxfard career
wns a successful runner. His marriage
came as a surprise to the average para
graph ist.
TRAINING THEHIMAN B0D.
Advantages Offered by the Swedish Sys
tem of Physical Culture, Which Is to Bo
Introduced Into the Seranton Young
Men's Christian Association.
The fact that he highest degree of In
tellectual and moral culture can not be
obtained without attention -to the phy
sical Is now generally recognized. Phy
sical education Is therefore t necessity
We can not overcatlnvate t'he Import
ance of beginning pihyslcal training in
child-hood. The bones, owing to their
of tne3, are alt that -time easily shaped,
and defects such as contracted and
undeveloped chests are then very read
ily overcome. Correct ihablts of walk
ing, nta-nding and breathing are ob
tained with 1 ItHle difficulty. Fortunate
It is, 'however, If physical education has
boon neglected, that a well developed
body cian still be secured by those
men in middle life by Judicious and sys
temaitlc exercise.
' In the Swedish system the exercises
have been carefully investigated as to
the effects produced. The system offers
the most complete general body educa
tion of any yet known. The system
contains free standing exercises, and
exercises on apparatus: It differs from
others In I'hait It Is Independent of ap
paratus, Its movements being applicable
to Whatever may be at hand. There
are three muiln points In whtdh the sys
tem differs from others First, bhe man
ner of Beleci'lng the exercises. They are
chosen according to their gymnastic
value. Only' sut'h exercises are used
whi&e local and general effects are well
known, and proved to be needed by the
body. In Judging of tUie effects of an
exercise, the Swedes tihlnk the least of
t'he muscular development vroduced.
For t'he effect of all exercise Is to pro
duce muscle; but they think of the
effects produced on the nerves, vessels,
etc, for the effects In this dlrec'lon can
be vastly changed by varying the
movement. It Is aimed to uniform the
functional activity of the body. All the
exercises are made to comply wltJh the
laws of physics, physiology and psy
chology as applied to the body.
T-h.? si-cond point of difference la the
regularity of the method. In order to
make gymnastics systematic-there must
he progression. In t'he Swedish system
this Is adhered to very strictly, so that
t'he exercises beginning with the most
cimple, gradually become' stronger.
Each r ''einer.t In a lesson prepare
for th E "lowing. The exercises fol
low ea-t.. other progressively from les-
eon to lerson and from week to week.
No movement l given until the simpler
ones of the ranie type have been ac
quired. It bas been proved that If In
each leston the exorcises follow eiacih
cllher In a certain order, the movemeni.a
can be made stronger; III results can be
prevented, and -hence good effects can
'be made all the -more pronounced. For
that reason the movements are divided
into classes ru-ch as (I) Introduction. (2)
arch flexion i. (3) heating movements.
(4) 1alance movements, (f) shoulder
blade movements, (6) abdominal exer
cises. (7) lateral trunk movements. (K)
ibw kg movements, (9) Jumping-, (10)
rtspitut-jry.
Owing to the fact that there are
many -movements under each closs.
great variety can be obtained. The
third point In which the system differs
from others 1s In tho method of apply
ing the exercises.
Old Ways Discarded.
The old ways of -Imitation Is learning
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Mothers, use it for. your
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the series of exercises has been dla
caided, etnee by these methods the
pupil pays more attention to the move
ment of the teacher, and the order to
be followed, than to what he himself Is
doing; thus not receiving the full bene
fit of lihe movement. The Swedes claim
thait movements are therefore best ap
plied to words of command, since they
enable the pupil to concentrate his
n-jind on one thing at a time hie own
movement. They teach the pupil to
think and to ant quickly. iMut-io is de-f-lratle
hi exercises like walking, run
ning, club-swinging, etc., where rhythm
s like that of the pendulum; but in
the free standing work It Js not used.
The Swedly.h syiitt-m its rational since
t seeks a reason for every thing ttot
It uses. It makes theory and practice
'harmonise. It is practical as well. It
can be applied anywhere and every
where. The growing demand for the
system proves ts popularity. Although
lit has been subjected to the closest In
vestigation ull over the world, still It
has been adopted In every country
where Ms principles have been tested.
In the United States it la used quite ex
slvely In many cities, having been In
troduced Into the public schools. Spec
ial teachers are being provided.
The system will be taught, beginning
October 1st, In the gymnasium of the
Young iMen's Chrtetlon association.
The gymnasium is large, well lighted,
and has excellent ventilation. It Is
equipped with nil needed apparatus.
There are druning rooms attached, fur
nlt'hed -with all needed appliances.
Morning;, afternoon and evening classes
will bo orgar.'iiaed. iAppllcatioiiH tor
membership will be received ait the
gymnasium every day during the first
week of October. All women and chil
dren are cordially invited to visit the1
gy tnn-ai'iuni und Join the classes.
STORIES OF ABE LINCOLN.
Craft Thut Was Sagacity.
Among the Springfield men who
knew Lincoln was Judge William L.
Uross- In Lincoln's time he was one
of tho younger men. Talking with a
Times-Herald man about the great war
president, Judge Gross recently said:
"My ImpreFdlon of Lincoln Is that he
was, cf all men I have ever known, far
the craftiest. ThlJ quality was shown
In his debate with Douglas, presuma
bly a better debater, and certainly a
more experienced politician than Lin
coln. He led that man to make admis
sions that were fatal to the Douglas
cause, it was shown In his editing of
the diplomatic correspondence with
Kngland relative to the capture of
Alason and cilidell."
"The editing of that correspond
ence?" "Yes. -For there Is absolute proof
that Lincoln went over the letters that
Seward wrote, erased sentences here
and added sentences or parts or sen
tences there. It was Lincoln and not
the secretary of state who conducted
that quarrel Into safe channels, and
avoided the most unfortunate thing
that could have happened us at that
time a war with England.
"Understand-, I do not mean craft In
the sense of dishonesty. He was as
honest a man as ever lived. His word
given was as good as a bond. When
he promised to elo a thing, he kept that
promise If It was anywhere within hu
man power to keep it. He did not
seem to struggle to keep It, but the
promise was redeemed. 'He did not de
ceive. 'An-di yet. by keeping his own
counsel, and by possessing himself of
the plan and purpose of his enemy, he
wen. IHe posed as "Honest Abe.' Well,
he was honest so honest that he over
reached any possible trickery. I be
lieve It was the craft of the man, deeper
tnan any one suspected at the time,
deeper than many will he willing to ad
mit now, that won him his success. He
knew human nature better than did
most men. And he knew what would
most probably be the trend of public
opinion In the future in that near
future for which he could wait.
'IHe was not a learned lawyer. In
the first place he had few books. Think
of It. The year he was elected presi
dent there were but twenty-three vol
umes of Illinois reports. Thomas Coo
ley, as a law author, was unknown.
He had Chltty's "Pleading." but Chlt
ty's "Equity Jurisprudence" wns Just
out, and probably no one In Springfield
had a copy of it. Washburn's "Real
Kstate" was Issued that year. A law
yer of that day, particularly In the
west, must deduce conclusions from
the fundamentals of the law.
"And then, In trying a case, his craft
was again seen. I remember seeing
him In the trial of a case one time I
don't remember what the case was, and
It doesn't mnke any difference and he
seemed troubled and In danger of de
feat because there was no precedent
for him. 'Hut he swung that great arm
In a giant gesture, and his expressive
face lighted with the fire of conviction,
and he said, 'It seems to me this ought
to be the law.'
"And we all believed him. And today
that is the law!"
-:!!:- -Lincoln's
llorbcoiio Story.
"One time Lincoln told the story of
one of these Important young fellows
not an Irishman who lives In every
town and have the cares of state on
their shoulders. This young fellow
met an Irishman on the street, and
called to him officiously:
" 'Oh, 'Mike, I'm awful glad I've met
you. We've got to do something to
wake up the boys. The campaign is
coming on. and we've got to get out
voters. We've Just held a meeting up
here, and we're going to have the big
gest barbecue that ever was heard of
In Illinois. We are going to roast two
whole oxen, and we're going to have
Douglas and General Cass, and some
one from Kentucky, and all the big
Democratic guns, and we're going to
have a great big time.'
" 'By dad! that's good,' says tho
Irishman. 'The byes needs stlrrln' up.'
" 'Yen, and you're on one of the com
and get them wakel up, Mike. You
aln' got no time to Iosp.'
" 'No, they ain't no time to lose.
Whin Is the barbecue to be?'
" 'Friday two weeks.'
" 'Friday, is It? Well. I'll make a
nice committeeman settln the barbe
cue on a dny whin half of the Ditn
ncratlc party of Sangamon county
can't ate a bite of mate. Go on wid
you.' "
The Coblnet Lincoln Wanted,
Judge Joseph Gillespie, of Chicago,
was a firm friend of Lincoln, and went
to Kprlngdcld lo see him shortly before
his -departure for the Inauguration.
"It was," said Judge Gillespie. "Lin
coln's Gethsemane. He feared he was
not the man for the great position and
the great event which confronted: him.
Untried In national affairs, unversed
In International diplomacy, unac
quainted with the men who were fore
most and ihad been foremost In the poli
tics or tne nation, ne groaned when he
saw the Inevitable war of the rebellion
coming on. lAnd It was lis humility of
spirit that he told me he believed the
American people had made a mistake.
"In the course of our conversation he
toll) me If 'he could select his cabinet
from the old. bar that had traveled the
circuit wltih him in the early days he
believed he could avoid war or settle It
without a battle, even after the fact
of secession.
'"But, Mr. Lincoln.' said I. 'those
old lawyers are all Democrats.'
" 'I know It,' was his reply. MJut I
would rather have Democrats whom I
know than Republicans I don't know.' "
THE HEI.PFIX HIST.
One day recently In a Dundee school the
teacher was examining the class In his
tory and asked one of the boys, "How did
Charles I die?"
The boy paused for a moment, and one
of the other lads, by way of prompting
him, nut hie arm up to his collar to sig
nify decapitation.
Boy No. 1 at once grasped as he thought
his friend's meaning, and exclaimed, to
the great amusement of the clai
sir, he died of cholera." Loado
riease,
ournaL
Men -of - Renown in
European Affairs,
Britain's Greatest
Will Soon Retire
From the Times-Herald.
London, Sept. 21. There Is no doubt
that .Lord DufTerln, the ltrltlsh am
bassador at Paris, is desirous of retir
ing from diplomatic life, and it Is an
open secret in diplomatic circles that
he will withdraw from the Elysce and
from active Bervlce as soon as Lord
Salisbury can settle the difficult ques
tion of his successor. The probability
is that the late autumn will witness the
retirement of the most gifted of ltrltlsh
dlpiomates. There Is, of course, a con
tingency of Anglo-Turkish complica
tions that mlLfht render It necessary
for him to hold on a while longer, ilut
this is doubtful.
Lord Duffel in Is now in his seventieth
year. His career has been long and
splendid. No -man since Talleyrand has
hud such qualifications for diplomacy.
His experience of It has very greatly
transcended thatof the famous French
man. No Europeuu or other diplomat
ist of this age has hud anything like
Lord 'Dufferln's opportunity of study
ing the 'borderland of civilization
those countries whose races are slowly
melting down into nationalities, of ab
solutism at Its Eenlth, as at St. Peters
burg, and In process of dissolution as
at Constantinople.
His Greatest Activities.
India was the scat of Lard Dufferln's
greatest activities and his most nplen
did achlevments. The period of his
vice royalty, 1HS4 to 18S9, witnessed the
solution of some of the most compli
cated and serious problems that have
grown out of British administration in
India. To him more than to any other
man before or since, wus due the settle
ment on a comparatively satisfactory
basis of the land tenures in a country
where they are as various and multi
form as its religious beliefs. From the
beginning of England's rule In India to
the date of Lord Dufferln's withdrawal,
there had never been a day when the
vice-regal government hud not been
occupied In some part of the territory
with the Investigations of systems of
rent or land revenue and with passing
laws to settle disputes or agricultural
grievances. To this relatively colorless
but absolutely important task DufTerln
brought all the experience gained dur
ing many years of active participation
in the discussion of Irish agrarian
questions. The resemblance between
these questions and similar problems In
India was not lost upon him.
In India the fact that there is no Eng
lish landlordism has kept these Issues
free from entaglement with the rivalry
of races, but there, as In Ireland, the
conflicting Interests of ownership and
occupancy in agriculture interests
lying now, as of old, at the basis of
civil society perpetually defy all legis
lative efforts to prevent periodic
strains. The famous Bengal tenancy
bill, which Dufferln caused to be passed
a few months after his arrival In India
by the legislative council, has now been
working for ten years and is at last ac
cepted on both sides as a fair adjust
ment of the terrible grievances It was
designed to remove. Further legisla
tion was needed to develop the law and
extend Its application, but the credit of
first embodying Its principle In legisla
tion for the benefit of her majesty's
millions of Indian subjects, is Lord
Dufferln's. It was the crowning fea
ture of a strong, humane, generous and
brilliant Internal administration. It
did for India what the right sort of land
act would do for Ireland removed
the chief ground of complaint on tha
part of the subject.
Won the Ameer's Confidence.
In what may be called the external
administration of India the consolida
tion and augmentation of territorial
possessions Lord Dufferln's name will
always be connected with the latest
steps which led up to the present com
manding position of Great Britain in
Asia.
The British Empire Is so big a target
that the clumsltHt marksman cannot
fall to hit It somewhere. But Impar
tial students of the history of British
India know that neither the governors
general nor the Indian services are to
be he-Id primarily answerable for a sys
tem und?r -which Great IBrltaln has,
been incessantly proclaiming "peace, yet'
prosecuting war, disclaiming the wish
for territorial expansion, yet steadily
enlarging her borders. It was the fate
of Lord Dufferln, a hundred years after
the Impeachment of Warren Hastings
for high-handed annexations, to con
firm acquisitions of territory beyond
Hastings' wildest dream. Today the
queen empress surveys ull India united
under ber sovedgnty; the whole' of
llurmnh; the two great high roads Into
North and South Afghanistan, through
the Khyner and the Brian parses, uro
In British hands; British railways have
traversed- Jleloochistan and British
military outposts are on the Afghan
frontier within eighty miles of Kanda
har. The dlre-cftl-on in which India (a
naturally most Interested Is, thanks
to Lord Dufferln's celebrated Inter
view with the ameer, now that In which
Its frontier Is mn-st Impregnable.
The meeting at Rawalpindi In 18S.1
between the viceroy and Abdurrahman
rvcured for the latter o throne upon
which r-'p is now firmly seated and for
the Bnltlsh a strategical frontier abso
lutely Invaluable as against Ruralnn
aggreslnn. It WS3 Interrupted, ns fate
would Irave It. by nr-ws of a collision
betvrc?n lAfphnn and Rurslnn troons
In Pendjch. The nmccr Intrusted his
Interests to Lord Dufferln and In the
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His Notable Career.
long and- Intricate negotiations which
followed at Cabool, London and St. Pe
tersburg the Knglish statesman and
diplomat was faithful to the trust.
ITow far the Influence of the Rawalpin
di Intevlew has extended, let the re
cent presence of the shanzadah In Lon
don bear witness. The utmost efforts
of Russia during a decade have no:
been able to neutralize the Impression
produced on the ameer's mind In 1S85
by the arguments and personalty of
Lord Dufferln.
Deposed King Thccbaw.
Scarcely leps uplendtd ns on achieve
ment or kss Important to the future of
Kngland iln Asia wus Lord Dufferln's
annexation of upper Hutmuli to the
Biltlsh crown and the extinction of the
dynasty uf 'i heeLuw und the iMaudulay
kings.
Tlioic acts established and confirmed
the new Indo-Chinese frontier. The
French have never forgiven Dufferln
for that stroke" of policy. The dastard
ly uttacks recently made upon him by
the gutter press of I'uris are inspired by
men who-iit he outwitted in JSSG In the
reconstruct low of southeastern Asia. It
is not unlikely that Kngland will find
herself some iuy discussing with
France the question of the Integrity of
Main. There Is a valuable square still
li ft vacunt on the political chessboard
of Asia. iBut the prescience of iLord
DufTenln l.as placed (Jieat Britain In a
position tu make the move that will
checkmate her Gallic rival either in
diplomatic negotiations or In war.
If a ccntcst in Asia Is ugaln, as In the
last century, to form an episode of a
future war between the foremost na
tions of Kurnpo. Great Britain will owe
whatever advantage she may then have
over Rusitfa or France to the policy,
- ', hkI military, of her ablest
representative.
Tho "Golden Age" of Dufferln.
His governor generalship of Canada
was marked by the highest degree of
tact, honor, kindness, courtesy and poli
tical wisdom. When he assumed the
functions of office five years' experience
had been hud of the workings of the
dominion government.
The adherence of British Columbia
had been obtained on condition that
the dominion should construct a rail
way to connect that province with the
railway system of Canada within a
period of ton years from the date of
union. The undertaking, made in haste,
was found to be entirely Impracticable
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stead of thevariousquack nostrums which ore
destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium,
morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful
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BpruoeStrMt, 8 e ranted Pa.
within the limits fixed. Party spirit
ran high. The new constitution, nor
yet consolidated, was being sorely
tested. It devolved upon Dufferln to
Bottle a host of difficulties, lie was
uniformly successful, and much of hla
success was due to his strict and un
wavering partisanship.
He said himself that the main duty
of governor general was to prevent
mischief rather than to accomplish,
good. He soon proved a representative
of all that Is august, stable and sedate
In government and In the history and
traditions of the country; docile to the
suggestions of his ministers, yet se
curing to the people the privilege of
getting rid of those ministers the mo
ment' they had forfeited public confi
dence. During his term of office he
won golden opinions from all sorts of
men and did more -than has been done
by any other Briton -to stimulate the ac
tivities of the Canadians and to up
hold purity In the dominion civil ser
vice. Their affections and good will
he gained In an extraordinary degree.
Nearly twenty years after his admin
istration Canadians still refer to It as
"the golden age of Dufferln."
Only Anstralia Left to Govern.
He was appointed ambassador to
Rome In December, 1888. Between that
date and the date of his birth in Flor
ence In 1H:'G he has helped to sway tha
dctltiles ef certain races In each of tha
four countries in turn. Australia alone
knows him not; else he might have a
right to complain that no worlds were
left h!'m to govern. It was a sentence
In a speech thai he made on entering;
the house of lords In 1871 with respect
to an Irish agriculturist tenant's un
doubted claim to compensation for Im
provements which, Blxteen years lat
er, .Mr. Gladstone made the basis of hla
land legislation for Ireland.
In Syria, Constantinople, Egypt, ha
displayed the same brilliant gifts as in
Rome, Calcutta, Purls and Montreal.
The rare occasions which have wit
nessed bis oratory have witnessed ora
tory of the most eloquent type. He la a
classic and oriental scholar, a sailor
and an athlete, a tiaveler and a teller
of tales of travel, a fellow of the Royal
and most other learned societies, and
has 1n a very unusual degree the sin
gular and universally recognised power
of attaching to his person all connected
with hvm professionally -or eootaily.
Some years ago Punch selected him aa
"our only diplomat" the cartoon rep
resenting tilth on a wild career to Tur
key. He has always deprecated the)
phrase, yet at that time it was not
untruthfully applied.
No man living, not even a monarch,
has had a career of greater success and
of more uniform happiness. Ldke the
maid of iioeotla, he has paused in hie)
race of honor Just long enough to peck
up almost every stray golden apple
reserved for the sons of fortune. Great
Britain will miss him sorely when he
finally withdraws. Much of what she h
and has Is due to the genius of the
Marquis of Dufferln and Ava.
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