THE SCKAKTOX TRIBUNE SATUR DAT MORNTNG, JANUARY 18, 1890. 11 Of and Abomit the Makers of .Books. Notices of Recent Interesting Volumes and Chats Concerning Literary Men and Womett . BIOGRAPHY. ANDREW GREGU CURTIN: His Life and Services. Edited cy William H. Kgle. M. I. Philadelphia: Avll Print ing oompany. The experiment has been tried In this large und handsome book of petting eminent men to record from their per gonal recollections those aspects of the career of Pennsylvania's renowned war governor with which they were, during iloneral Curtin's lifetime, most fami liar. Thus Instead of a single portrait of the man, reflecting Its author' In evitable limitations of vision, we havo portraits of him from every conceivable point of view, which, taken together, give a true idea of tne subject aa he was. Dr. Kgle has confined his pen to a short biography of Governor Curtin, together with papers on his first and his second administrations. The re maining chanters in the books are ns follows: Curtin and Free schools." by Henry C. Hlckok; "Curtin Klected Gov ernor 1860," by Colonel A. K. Mi:Clure; Curtin Re-Eleeted Governor 1863." by Wayne MacVeagh; "Soldiers Organised by Curtin." by ex-Governor Paulson; "The Pennsylvania Reserves." by Will lam Hayes Oricr; "Curtin and the Sol diers' Orphans." by G. Harry Davis: Curtin and the Altoona Conference." by John Russell Young; "Curtin a Karly War Trials." by FitxJohn Porter: "Cur tin's First Military Telegraph." by William Render Wilson; "Curtin's Care of the Soldiers." by Senator M. S. Quay; "Curtin and the Private Soldiers." by Thomas V. Cooper; "Curtin's Personal Attributes," by Governor Daniel II. Hastings; "Curtin and His Home Com munity," by ex-Governor Braver; "Cur tin and the State Credit." by J. C. Bom lierger; "Curtin and Clement B. Kar oluy," by Craig BUidle: "Curtin as Min ister to Russia." by Titian J. Coffey; "Curtin's Gubernatorial Rattles," by Thomas M. Marshall; "Curtin as a Civil Administrator," by William H. Arm strong; "Curtin and Pennsylvania at the Ueblntilng of the War," by Galusha A. Grow; and "Curtin in the Constitution al Convention." by Harry White. Of each of these authors a half-tone por trait is given, and there are a number of portraits of the subject, taken at different periods of his eventful and varied career. One of the most readable chapters In this list to our notion the most Inter esting one, because touching those hu man dualities which In any study of a great career give the sense of kinship nntl tap the springs of sympathy is that wherein Governor Hastings con siders "Curtin's Personal Attributes." In the other papers, Curtin Is Htudled as the executive official and master of n trairs; here he is Presented to us as Curtin, the man. Governor Hastings first recollection of the war governor was In the fall of '67. Mr. Curtin had Just returned from a trip to Cuba, and was standing upon the corner of. the public square. In Bellefonte. conversing with a dosen neighbors to whom, in spite of official hnnor.i past and antici pated, he was just plain "Andy." "1 re member," says the present governor, "that he closed his talk with the asser tion that the peopl" of Cuba ought to be as free as those of the I'nlteu States, vand he believed that she sometime would be." This Is General Hastings' description of Curtin at this period: The personality of Governor Curtin wa admirable. If It were possible to leave out of sight the lawyer, the war governor the diplomat, the orator, the statesman, and toconslderonly his personal character i.itlcs, thxir charm would have been suffi cient to make him famous in his genera tion. In his youth his personal appear ance was most marked and captivating Several Inches above six feet In height, broad shoulders, perfect symmetry o: figure, smooth shaven face, black hair jerfect teeth, blue eyes, large, well-shapei. head smooth and symmetrical feature! and an ungual grace and dignity of man ner, he was the distinguished liuilvldua in every assemblage in which he ap peared. In him the .quality of personal magnetism was largely developed, per hup in a more marked degree than ir any other public man of his time. Ther. wns a charm about his presence, a quali ty In his vciie, a something in his bearing that seemed to attract all classes to him, iniusuully. It was frequently said that when "Andy" Curtin appeared on the streets In Kellefonte, "every child smiled upon him, and every dog wagged his tail." Of Curtin as an orator, particularly before juries, in days when the law and evidence in a case were usually of sub ordinate consequence to the foresenlc ability of the opposing attorneys, the governor speaks In terms of profuse pruise. His command over the sympa thies of judge. Jurors and auditors Is described as incomparable In the circle In which he moved prior to the accept ance of political responsibilities. And apropos thereof, this story Is given: ' A father denied the parentage of a child, and witnesses were called in large num ber lo establish a seemingly impregnable alibi. To clinch the proof, a daguerreo type wss offered in evidence to show that be was in another place at the time of the alleged offence. '"Daguerreotypes!" suid Curtin, "establish this alibi with a daguer reotype!" and seizing the babe In his arms he carried it before the Jury and in a voire of thunder said: "Gentlemen of the Jury, bere is God's daguerreotype, which no one can mistake!" The eftect was electrical. The Jury rendered a verdict for the plaintiff without leaving the box. In the public affairs of Bellefonte Curtin took, from the first, an active part. He was the chief officer of the volunteer Are company and captain of the "State Fencibles." the first military company of the town. The latter or ganization was, as could be expected, the pride of Bellefonte, and member ship In it was a prima facie proof of dis tinction. General Hastings recalls a diverting circumstance which bears on this phase of Curtin's popularity: . The funeral of a member of the Fenci bles was an important event and attracted great crowds. A fife and drum corps fol lowed the minister and preceded the hearse, while the Fencibles, with solemn tread, preceded the Immediate members of the family of the deceased. Thus sol emnly marshalled, they proceeded lo the village graveyard, where the ceremony was closed by the firing of volleys of blank cartridges over the grave. Upon one occa sion the procession halted In front of the "Red Lion Tavern" (on the site of which is now the home of the writer) to adjust some difference that arose between the sergeant of the company and the bass Directory Wholesale. BANKS. Lackawanna Trust and Safe Deposit Co. Merchants' and Mechanics', 49 Lacka. Traders' National, ZM Lackawanna. Watt Stde Bank. 109 N. Main. Cxrantoa- Savings, ia Wyoming. BEDDING. CARPET CLEANING, ETC. Ths So ronton Bedding Co., Lacks. BREWERS. Robinson, B. Seas, its N. Seventh. . Ztoblason, MUM, Cedar, cor. Alder. , CHINA AMD OLASSWAR& ' Bupprseht. Louis, SU Fenn. . TOTS AMD CONFECTIONERY Williams, . JX Bra., Ut Lacks. FLOUR, rXBD AND GRAIN. Vattbews, C. P. flens a Co., H LackSk Tas W to ton MIU Co.. T-U Lacks. FAINTS AND SUPPLIES. JffMaaMcKf. M Bprnot. drummer. The difficulty could only be adjusted In one way, and Captain Curtin ordered them to follow him lo the rear of the barn, where they wre allowed to settle the question according to the pre vailing rules of the prise-rim. after which the procession re-formed, and the remain ing solemnities of the niiktary funeral were carried out In due form. Much has been written since Andrew Curtin's death about his unfailing gen erosity, and this trait In his character has, in fact, become proverbial. But General Hastings In his contribution to the present volume narrates a new anecdote: I was crossing the street near his home one bitter cold winter evening, many years ago. in company with Governor Curtin. when the latter was halted by a feeble old man. wearing nothing but the round about clothes usually worn by wood-choppers. He had been an old employe at the Curtin Iron works. "Is that you. Andy?" said the old man, while, his teeth chattered with cold. "Yes," said the governor; "Is that you, Tom? What In the world are you doing out on such a cold dny as this without an overcoat? How are times with you?" "Bud," said Tom: "mighty bad, noth ing to do. I have no money to spare for overcoats when meat is wanted at home." "Here, take mine;" .and suiting the ac tion to the word. Governor Curtin re moved his overcoat, anJ In a moment it was comfortably wrapped around the Shoulders of the old wood-chopper, who walked off, showering bb-sslngs on his benefactor. After his return as minister to Russia, Governor Curtin was importuned by thousands of old soldiers to assist them In getting pensions. To every request which he thought deserving, he' re sponded with all possible diligence, and often would go to Washington to pre sent their cases In person before the commissioner. ; On one occasion tho commissioner sent for the papers of the claimant whose rase the governor was urging, and after Inspecting them, Informed him that the claimant was unable to rile any proof ex cepting his own affidavit that he had been disabled In battle, that under the rules there must be additional evidence, that nothing could be found In the hospital re ports or other records of the alleged wound; and tho claim must therefore be refused. I will fill that gap myself," said Cur tin. "I sent that boy to the army; he came to me Immediately after the battle of Gettysburg and 1 saw his wound. I kept hlin at my house until he said he hail recovered somewhat from his Injury and was able to go back, but his health had broken and 1 had to send him home. Now," fcaid Curtin, in a voire of thunder, "if that is not evidence enough to give this man a pension, I say lumn the rules of the department." . The pension was grant on the spot. Two more anecdotes- from the Hast ings chapter and we shall have done. That Curtin was a man characteristic ally alive to the spirit of things and op posed to all Bupertlous accessories has already been Indicated, but General Hastings Is Informed of an incident which brings this trait out In even clearer relief: In 1875, when the new had reached Bellefonte of the great Urn which swept out of existence the town of Osceoln, situate on the boundary of Center county, and left thousands of people homeless and destitute, an alarm was sounded by the ringing of bells, and the people rushed to the court house, tilling it to overflowing, .o take action with reference to helping he sufferers. Some one moved that the meeting should organise by the election )f a president, vice-president and secreta ries, whereupon Governor Curtin quickly lumped to his feet ami exclaimed: "My Joil, neighbors. It is not presidents, 'vice presidents and secretaries of this meet ing that the people of Osceola need. They want bread and meat and clothing and ihelter. Go to your homes and bring these rhlngs to the railroad station as quick as you can, and I will furnish the cars to (end them forward at once." It Is Im possible to describe the effect of these words. The court house was emptied in a ninute. People rushed to their homes for their contributions, and soon the car loads of relief were on their way to the unfortunate people of the lire-swept town. The last personal reminiscence of An drew Gregg Curtin to which we shall re fer is told by General Hastings In the third person, but we shall take the lib erty to repeat It as Mr. Curtin himself related It to Colonel Harry Hall of the Pittsburg Times, Just a few days prior to his death: "Immediately after the disastrous battle of Fredericksburg, In December, 1862," said the war governor, "I went down to Washington to look after such of my boys from Pennsylvania as might need enrc. Things were In a terrible condition. Ev ery one was appalled and disheartened. The wounded were coming in from the battle, and. there being no means of curing for so many, they were lying on the Poto mac wharves, almost on the bare snow It self. 1 went to work and did what I could, and was In my room In the hotel one day when word came that a woman wunted to see me. She was brought In and proved to be a woman 1 knew, the wife of m farmer In the central part of Pennsylva nia, who had come down to And out about her son. Rumor suld he was wounded, and a mother's love had brought her to find him. She was poorly clad, and al though It was In winter, I remember she wore one of the old-fashioned sunbon nets, stiffened with strips of pasteboard. She had got to Washington that morning, could get no tidings of her son, and now, the hotels being all crowded, could llnd r.o place to stay. She seemed almost heart broken. "I told her I would endeavor to get word of her son, and, learning from the hotel-keeper where there was a reputa ble boarding house, paid a hackman 12 to take her there. Seeing her started, I stoppd on the street to tnlk to Governor Buckingham, of Connecticut, who was In Washington on the same errand as my self. While we were talking I heard a rough voice ordering some one, with oaths, to 'get out, and be quick about it!' I looked around and saw the hackman I had hired trying to get the poor woman out of the carriage. Inquiring what it meant, she told me, with tears, that after he had driven her a little ways he had or dered her to get out, and on her refusing not knowing where she was, he had brought her back. I asked him what he meant by such conduct, but the fellow, a big, burly ruffian. Just cursed and swore and asked me what I was going to do about it. "I was at a loss, for I didn't want a disturbance with him on the public street, when I saw coming along a big, rawboned soldier with a bucktnil in his hat. I called on him, and found that he knew me. So I told him the story. " 'Come down off that coach,' he said of Wholesale MONUMENTAL. WORKS. Owens Bros., US Aotmi avtnuo. MILK. CREAM. BUTTER. ETC Scranton Dairy Co.. Penn and Linden. ENGINES AND BOILERS, Dickson Manufacturing; Co. DRY GOODS, MILLINERY, ETC. Ths Fashion, (W Lackawanna avenue. PLUMBING AND HEATIN0. Hewley, P. F. a M. T.. 2U Wyoming ava ' - GROCERS. Kslly, T. J. a Co., M Lackawanna, ' Megargol Connalt, Franklin avonua Porter, John T., M and tt Lackawanna, . Rice, Levy A Co., 10 Lackawanna, HARDWARE. Connell, W. P. Sons, 111 Penn. Foot a Shear Co., US tt. Washington, Hunt a Connell Co., 4M Lackawanna, - to tbe hackman. "Come down or J'll poll jou down.' - - "The fellow climbed down and- they went at I:. In lex than ilnt.d .itr.ut- tne 'Buckiail' hud l:nwked hi opponent all over the street au had lilin- yelling for mercy, (living him a parting kick, ha said: "There, goveruor, was that done to your plsasemeiu?' 1 told hlin It.was. and he muile the driver get up on his carriage, and, climbing ur beside him, told hint, with many threats, to drive the womau to her destination. "I went back to Governor Buckingham, who, pointing to the crowd the scene had drawn, ssld: " 'Governor, governor, what r terrlbli. example you have set to the puJTi at this time when the government Is lighting for its very existence. Why didn't you invoke the law to punish that man?' " 'Well,' 1 said, "that way may do for you people from the land or steady habits, but at a time like this we Pennsylvania!! take the short cut.' "Tho next day I called on President Lin coln. After we hud talked a while he snld, with his quaint smile. Curtin. 1 hear you've taken a new duty on yourself.' What's that? 'Regulating the hackmcn of the city.' Then I knew he had heard of it, and told htm the story. He laughed, but said: 'The city authorities have com plained of It and your man may be arrest ed. You had better look after him.' "As I left the white house I saw an other Kucktall and asked him where his regiment was camped and how they were geting along. He said they were camped in the city and that everything was ull right. 'Except,' he added, 'Andy Curtin got one of our fellows to thrash a hack man yesterday and the police are coming to camp today to arrest him for It.' . " 'Ho right to camp.' said I, 'and tell them not to let them take him.' " 'Why, who are you?' says he. " 'Andy Curtin,' I replied. He gave me one look and started lor ramp on the run. And 1 heard after," said the gover nor, with a laugh of keen enjoyment, "that when the ollicer came with the war rant they ran him out of cump, yelling for help." That the publication of this book will afford gratification to all admirers of one of Pennsylvania's greatest, most versatile and most original sons does not need statement. Dr. F.gle, In his own direct composition and In bis even more difficult tusk as editor, has suc ceeded uncommonly well, and the vol ume of which he was the Inspiration will properly take rank among those standard works of vital biographical Interest without which no library can be considered complete. L. S. R. FICTION. PAUL AND VIRGINIA OF A NORTH ERN ZONE. From the Danish of Holger Drachmann. Translated by Thorklld A. Schovelln and Francis F. Browne. Blue cloth. V.'mo.. hand-made paper, S1.1U. Chicago: Way A Williams. The thought which is in one's mind as one first take this book in hand Is that there must be something of assur ance In Its challenging comparison with the Immortal classic of St. Pierre. But If one should be guided by this prema ture Impression to lay the book aside, unread, one would make a sacrifice as needless as it would be great. For, with due allowance for differences In environment, this Idyll of the Northern land is certainly not unworthy to stand on terms of equality beside Its more fa mous predecessor. It, too, deals in pim ple, direct manner with the loves and foibles of plain peasant folk. A strip of sand on the bank of the Danish sea, with a streak of forest for a background and some few small houses of fisher folk or sailors scattered throughout the foreground, ever In view of the restless waves, forms it site and supplies what crltlca would call its "atmosphere;" while a gloomy old blacksmith, with his sturdy young son, a drink-fond sea captain with his pretty but spirited and motherless daughter, and a precise and punctual old coast signalman, with a few Incidental additions, comprise the whole of the story's human element. One could not. imagine withal a more com monplace setting for a romance of the heart, and it Is to the author's distin guished credit that, sculptor-like, he has moulded from this crude clay figures of flawless verisimilitude. His picture of Tonnes, the great hulk of a bashful boy, who, under the influence of a modest passion, awakens gradually to man's emotional estate and. under this spur, goes forth undaunted to conquer the world. Is excelled only by his fine de lineation of the young maiden Nanna, In whom alternating coquetry and re morse, pride and tlutmt sympathies, the kaleidoscopic surface-play of ever changing moods and fancies which veils the depths of loyalty and of love below give piquancy and enduring charm. Hol ger Drachmann. with kindly humor, has caught the life-like view of "the eternal feminine." His Nanna pulsates with human vitality and is creation tit to live. Moreover, unlike some writers of his clline, this Danish -St. Pierre has no hobbles to ride, no crazy theories to ex ploit and no Problems to solve. Ho Is content with the artist's function alone, and cares not a fillip of his finger for all ,the diseased decadents or Incipient male and female paretics since pathology be gan. We look with eagerness for fur ther translations of Holger Drachmann's works. To the publishers of this pres ent translation a word of praise is due for the book's neatness and Judicious putting together. Few recent volumes have equalled it In the various details of mechanical excellence. STRANGERS AT LI3CONNBLL: A Se ries of Irish Idylls, liy Jane Barlow. Cloth, 12mo, 11.25. New York: Dodd, Mead ft Co. , One of the few genuine literary tri umphs of last year was that won by "Irish Idylls,' a work which quickly ran through four editions and received praise without stint from critics and laymen both here and in Europe. It was a group of sketches depicting with fidelity and with ever-manifest sym pathy and tenderness the humor, pa thos and temperamental versatility of the Irish character. Unlike Lever or Carleton. Miss Barlow made no endeav or to heighten her effects by gro tesqueness or exaggeration, but kept patiently and with artistic sincerity to the limits of truth, the result of which was a vein of literary achievement wholly new to the discriminating pub lic, and as welcome as it was novel. The present volume is a continuation of these charming studies, with the pleas urable characteristics of the earlier work quite as prominent In the new. Its Interest is wholly In Its human ele ment, for at Llsconnel humanity is ev erything and natural phenomena are nil. "Thus," the author tells us, at the opening, "the generations as they suc ceed one another, wave-like preserve a well-marked .rhythm In their coming and going play, work, rest not to be interrupted by anything less peremp tory than death or disablement. This wag-by-the-wall swings and swings its bobbed pendulum without pause, but one swing is much like the other, and their background never varies. Little Pat out stravading of a fine morning on and Retail City and Suburban Representative -Business Houses. FRUITS AND PRODUCE. Dale It Stevens, 27 Lackawanna, Cleveland, A. 8., 17 Lackawanna, DRY GOODS Kolly A Healey, 20 Lackawanna. Flnley, P. B., C10 Lackawanna. LIMES, CEMENT, SEWER PIPE. Keller, Luther, 113 Lackawanna. HARNESS A SADDLERY HARDWARE. Fr:ti G. W., 410 Lackawanna. Ktller a Harris, 117 Penn. WINES AND LIQUORS. Walsh, Edward J., IS Lackawanna, LEATHER AND FINDINGS. Williams, Samuel, 221 Spruce. BOOTS AND SHOES. Goldsmith Bros., 804 Lackawanna, WALL PAPER, ETC, Ford, W. H 120 Ponn. . CANDY MANUFACTURERS. ' Scranton CMdr Co., tt Lackawanna. the great hrewn-wlgged her. and. It may be !:!, enjoying lnnivlf. tlior-t-ughly. is taking l:e itm ru-st-aietts'ln lilt: as youtig Put. its rather, now bury t'jttlitg turf-soda, and' old Pat, lite grandfather. Idly watching them burn, with u pipe. If in luck, to keep ullght." What can be a more deft bit of descrip tion than this, or a leas distracting can vass for a fulthf ut picturing of racial Idiofv ncrasies, mannerisms, and types of diameter? We should like very truch to take the reader on a. pilgrim age to Llsconnel. with Miss Barlow for a keen-eyed but always sympathetic guide; and to show him, under her chaperonago, how much real art may d'rter in Us treatment of Irish themes from the spurious chromo work which. In most plays and novels, distorts and intuitu the Irish character. But time and space deny us that privilege. We can, however, indulge ourselves in one recommendation; and that Is that the reader of these lines, if ho would ex perience a real treat, hie him to the nearest book stalls and take Llsconnel by barter. LITERARY GOSSIP. Mary Abbott, the accomplished reviewer of the Chicago TImes-Herahl, has fears lor literature because of the growing ten dency even among the best ot writers, to ward pot boiling. "Men," she says, "whose fame is at the Mow can'; pour out their brains fast enough; page alter puge of syndicate matter wells forth, and some of it. It is needless to remark. U pretty bad. But 'It goes." as the expression is, and the money comes, and in the firet flush of fame many a splendid writer is going on toboggan runners to his euriy doom. Rich, fut and played out the whole society of authors of the present day will be soun. Barrle, whose tlrst writings wore Inimitably excellent, tixxled out with pot boilers, and the end early and sudden la miserable silence; a silence that Is prob ably golden, but not in the scriptural sense. Ian .Macluren is following down the path, overproducing, hurrying, scram bling to rake up idioms anil histories of those poor uld hidden Drum toe hty folk, who should be dealt with as daintily us glass niunikins. Kven they are smirk and agog now. it Is said, eager to reel off their very peculiarities for gain. Crockett Is writing too fust and too much: Klppllng, either from hints of threatening prostra tion or plethora, or some sense of mod esty. Is staying his pen a little, and writ ing better for the pauses. There was a time when ho emptied himself ull over Sunday papers, and was hideously cyni cal, from desperation or confusion. Zsug will, the cleverest of all the London lot, la suffering from the common itch; he write and writes, and In one column now there may be two Ideas. For a master of stylo and a real thinker, such a fate la peculiar ly sad, and Irritating to a lartfe band of admirers now mourners as well. His hy perboles bear marks of haste and his se rious comments on current matters are trivial In themselves, often, and Stupidly put. So much for the Influence of prema ture prosperity in the nineteenth century nineties." II II II , Fad-following In typography. Just now so exuberant, calls from the Chicago Journal a timely rebuke. Says It: "He fore William Morris undertook to print ills own works and was content that the world phould read what he wrote In good round Roman type, the world read what he wrote. But from the day he conceived the Idea that what he wrote must bo pre sented In grotesque, black-letter type, on specially-prepared paper, with lamp-black Ink, the world has ceased to be Interested in what he wrote. From being a writer of books Mr. Morris became a printer of bric-a-brac. If the effect of Mr. Morris Idiosyncrasy, lo hide his literary light un der and archaic style, printed in eye-killing tpye, had been confined to his own works und the Kelmscott press the world might have shunned them and saved Its sight for more attractive and readable books. But printers and publishers are an imitative trine and prone to run after new things. So the Kelmscott press has been Imitated all over the world and type founders have outdone themselves to pre pare variations of old English black let ters, with disastrous effect upon the clear, plain typography of the decade. De Vlnne, ono of the best printers in America, has fallen a victim to the fad for printing books with bisarre typographical effects. This was all right so long as he confined his experiments to bonks primarily In tended for the cabinets ot collectors of the rare, the odd, and the antique. But his use of a lean, measly, hybrid type for such a widely-read magasine as the Century Is nothing short of a crime against the eye sight of America and England. Tbe love of old books because of the wise or beau tiful thoughts that are In them, the admir ation for old books because of their clear, round, readable print and their strong, enduring paper, the buying of old books as curiosities these are natural and ra tional tastes of intelligent persons. But what justification can be urged for hark ing back to the black-letter period for type In which to print popular modern periodicals passes the comprehension of any one not in cahoots with oculists and opticians." II II II Messrs. Way & Williams, the Chicago publishers, announce as ready for publica tion "Hand and Soul" by Dante Gabriel Rossettl, reprinted from The Germ by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, In golden type, Kimo, bound in vellum, $3.26 net. The edition consists of 620 paper copies and twenty-one copies on vellum. Of the former, twenty-five were printed for Mr. Morris, live for the English libraries, 190 for rOngland, and 3U0 for America. Of the twenty-one copies on vellum, all of which have been sold, four copies were printed for Mr. Morris, eleven were sold In Englund. and six have been sold In America. The paper .copies printed for Ensland have been subscribed for. New subscriptions will be entered In the order of their receipt, and the price of those copies remaining unsold Feb. 1 will be advanced. II II II AUTHORS AND PUBLISHKRS: Pope, when translating Homer, consid ered from fifty to HW lines to be a fair clay's work. The completion of the Iliad required over three years. Balzac considered that he was wasting time if he devoted more than six months to any ono of his longer Btorle.. He fre quently finished a novel In less than three. De Qulncy commonly wrote one of his essays -In a week. He never hurried him self, and wrote slowly to avoid what to him was the disgraceful task of revision. Shelley spent between one und two years on "Queen Mab." He wrote very slowly, and was particular in tho choice of words, his manuscript showing frequent eras ures and substitutions. The manuscript of Gray's "Klegy" re mained in the author's hands seven years, receiving touches hern and there, and would not have been printed then had not a copy loaned to a friend been printed, Pierre Lotl Is writing a novel, "Ramond cho," tho scene of which Is laid in the Basque mountain:). The characters are smugglers, which reminds one of Prosper Merlmee's "Carmen." The present Interest In the Transvnnl has called attention again to the admira ble account of life among the Boers, and of Johannesburg, which Is furnished In Frank Vincent's Actual Arfica, published by the Appletons. A portrait of President Kruger is among the illustrations. Stephen Crane's rtlrring novel of war, "The Red Eadge of Courage," is meeting with great success In England. The Janu ary number of the New Review contains a critical appreciation of the young American's work by George Wynilhuin. The same magasine will later publish a new story by Mr. Crane, who Is now the author of 'the hour In London. '.FLOUR. BUTTER. EGGS. ETC Ths T. H. Watts Co., Lt., 722 W. Lacks. Babcock. G. J. a Co., Ut Franklin. MINE AND MILL SUPPLIES. Scraaton Supply and Mach. Co., 131 Wye. FURNITURE. Hlil a Connell, IU Washington. . CARRIAGE REPOSITORY. Blums, Wm. A Son. 622 Sprues. HOTELS. Scranton House, near depot . MILLINERY A FURNISHING GOODS, Brown's Bee Hive. 224 Lacka. City and Suburban. ATHLETIC GOODS AND BICYCLES. Florey, C. M., 2Z1 Wyoming, HARDWARE AND PLUMBING, Gunster a Forsyth, 227 Ptnn. Letters of Travel in,. Southern France, Special to tho Bcrantcn Tribune. Nlmes. France. Jan. I-. This is hov the guide book tells one to go from Avignon to Nlmes, taking the train ut Pont du Avignon, Across the Rhone from the town. "Beyond Aramon the line quits the Rhone and enters the valley of the Gordon, passing Thcsiers and Rcmoullns. The Pont du Card lies about two miles to the west of Remou llns, and Is reached by crossing the sus pension bridge and then turning to, the right by the Lafous road. Can Inge for 1-3 persons four francs there and back." A word about guide, books. They are almost indispensable in Europe to give one the names of hotels, rates of car riage fare and slse and history of towns, but there Is one golden rule to follow with them. It is always keep ahead of the guide book. Don't go through Europe following a title red covered in every particular. If you really wish to see a country, to be able to stop and enjoy any fine bit of ccenery or interesting thing you may come across, the best way is to walk through parts of It. and bo I decided to walk from Avignon to Nlmes. Old Port St. Andre. An early start a very Important thing for a long walk took me across the river Villeneuve les Avignon, and by 8 o'clock I was In front of the very Interesting old Fort St. Andre, which looms above the town, and which was built by the popes In the time when they held their court at Avignon, between the years 1305 and 1377. Seven popes reigned there and the country round about remained a papal dependency un til the French Revolution. v The entrance to the fort is). between two massive battlemented towers and is very well- preserved, as are the walls. Just underneath the hill on which the fort stands la a very quaint old quar ter of the town, built amid the ruins of the Carthusian monasteries. The houses are built around the old cloisters, the corridors form the streets of the section and the effect is necessarily pictur esque. After a cup of coffee and a roll at the Cafe d'la Universe It's a poor French town that husn't its Cafe do Paris, its Cafe de France and its Cafe d'la Uni verse I started from Villeneuve. The road wound around a hill, en reaching the top of which a magnificent view is obtained. Olive groves, dotted with red tiled houses, slope down to the river Rhone, across which stands the picturesque town of Avignon, the huge palace of the popes rising high above It. Then back of the town level plains stretching to the Alpines, and back of them and filling in the picture, the Alps, lifting their summits high Into the heavens. Outside the walls of Avignon some thousands of French soldiers were go ing through their morning exercise, and although the distance must have been several miles, the sound of their voices as they counted "Un, Deux, Trols, Quatre," was easily distinguishable. Interesting Zoological Phenomena. From this point the road led across a table land, richly cultivated, and I passed a number of peasants driving Into town on their high two-wheeled carts. If the cart Is of average size a horse draws It, but if It Is unusually large they procure the smallest donkey obtainable and hitch him to it. Some of these little almals are so small that one feels like buying a cou ple for souvenirs. They are, perhaps, the most Interesting feature of the French roads, and I never tire of watch ing them. To one of these peasants I Intrusted a key which I had absent mlndedly carried away from my hotel at Avignon. He promised to deliver it, and it Is to be hoped he did. Otherwise they may be charging me for the room yet. Leaving the table land and the road I climbed a little hill, and here I had what might be termed an adventure. I was going through a little bit of wood Just before the summit was reached, when I heard something scrambling down the side of the road, and looking up saw a bear making for tne. If we did not have the word nervous in the language I think I should be compelled to say I was frightened, but having that word, I will say that I felt somewhat nervous, and gripped my umbrella my sole defense somewhat hopelessly. When climbing the hill I had heard what seemed to be the bark of 4 dog, and was prepared for him, but a bear was an entirely different thing. And there was no doubt about this being a real live bear, if growls count ed for anything. He had taken several steps In my direction, and I was con templating an ignominious flight, when he stopped, and to my intense relief, I saw tie was chained to a tree. If I had discovered the chain a little earlier it would have saved me a bad quarter of a minute. Afonl of a Gypsy Cstnp. Deciding that where there was a chain there must be a man. and keep ing well on the other side of the road, I passed his bearish majesty and dis covered, around a bend of the road, a gypsy camp. A number of beautiful brown-skinned children were rolling over each other on the green In front of the tents, and a monkey leaped chattering from tree to tree. The mo ment they saw me, they all, children and monkey, made a rush for mc and begged for coppers. All the older gyp sies seemed to be not at home, and tho children were running the camp. The Pennells, in their study of the gypsies, have made the observation that these nomadic folk always choose a site for their camps commanding a fine view, and this ramp was no excep tion. The table land over which I hud Just passed was spread out below mc like a carpet bounded on the hori zon by the mountains. The camp it Belf was a small one of only two tents. I should have liked to examine it a little more closely than I did, but the children were importunrte, the monkey Jumped at me continually, and I had not any too great faith In the strength of that bear's chain, and so I came on. Another Roman Rnin. From the cimn th road descended to Rcmoullns which I found to be a small town of no great Interest. Crossing the garden, which runs by the town, the road turned to the north and a walk of perhaps two miles brought me to the Cowles. W. C, 1907 N. Main. WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER, Rogors, A E., 215 Lackawanna. . BOOTS AND SHOES. Goodman's Bhoo Store, 432 Lackawanna, FURNITURE. Barbour's Horns Credit House, 42S Lacks. CARPETS AND WALL PAPER. Ingllt, J. Scott, 419 Lackawanna, ' GENERAL MERCHANDISE Osterhout, N. P., 110 W. Market , Jordan, Jamss, Olyphant. -Barthold, E. J., Olyphant CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER, Bnook. 8. M., Olyphant' PAINTS AND WALL PAPER. Winks, J. C, nS Pann. TEA, COFFEE AND SP1CB, . N Grand Union Tta Co., 102 B. Main. t - v;f--''.'v,:-- . V. . -;1 ' ' " An Adventure with a Bear ..and ' Other Noteworthy Wayside Incidents. Roman ruin I vas In search of. the Pont du Uard. Now we fail back on the omniscient Hcdeker for the tacts. The Pont du Oard. spanning the Gar don at the bend of the valley, is one of the most Imposing monuments of the Romans which remain to us. It forms part of an aqueduct twonty-flvo and a half miles lorsr. built to convey to Nimes the water of two springs in the neighborhood of Alzea, und is ascribed to Agrtppa, son-in-law of Au gustus (B. C. 19). The bridge is about 880 feet long and 160 feet high, and Is composed of three tiers of arches, each less wide than the one below. The first two tiers corwitst respectively of six and eleven arches of equal span, the third of thirty-five smaller arches. The whole is admirably constructed of large stones, and no cement has been used except for the canal on the top. The hills bordering: the river are very pretty but for ones at least the work of man dwarfs the -work of nature, and the only thing tho eye dwells on is the old Pont. In such good preservation Is it that it scarcely seems old, and It looks good for another nineteen hundred years. Of course, parts of It have been restored, but bo blgr Is It that like the arena at Aries, restoration cannot affect Onward To its r J Ximcs. The sight of this bridge made me wish more than ever to see the city that In olden times was of sufficient impor tance to have such a massive aque duct built for it. and so, after an hour's stay I started again fur Nlmes. A sign board at Remoulins reads "A Nimes 20 kilometres," and If I was to get there before dark It behooved me to hurry. After leaving Remoulins the way led over a level agricultural country with nothing of especial Interest In the way of scenery. Notwithstanding tho fact that I passed through several very picturesque old towns the latter half ot my day's walk resolved Itself Into a counting of the kilometres, which the excellent system ot distance posts en ables me to do very readily on a French road. At 6 o'clock, just as the Btreet lamps were being lit. I reached Nlmes. The next day one Is likely to think that perhaps the guide book's way of get ting from Avignon to Nlmes has some merits after all. One doesn't have quite so much of that tired feeling if he goes by rail. But then, he doesn't see o much. Wlnford J. Northup. BY THE NEW POET LAUREATE. Longing. The hills slope down to the valley, the streams run down to the sea, And my heart, my -heart. Oh, fur one! sets and strains toward thee. But only the feet of the mountain are felt by the rim of the plain. And the source and soul of the hurrying stream reach not the calling main. The dawn Is sick for daylight, the morn ing yearns for the noon. And the twilight sighs for the evening star and the rising of the moon. But the dawn and the daylight never were seen In the self-same skies, And the gloaming dies of its own desire when the moon and the stars arise. Ths Springtime calls to the Bummer: "Oh, mingle your life with mine;" And the Summer to Autumn 'plalneth low: "Must the harvest be only thine?" But the nightingale goes when the swal low comes, ere tbe leaf Is the blossom ' fled. And when the Autumn sits on her golden sheave, then the reign of the rose is dead. And hunger and thirst, and wail and want, are lost in the empty air, And the heavenly spirit vainly pines for the touch of the earthly fair. And the hills slope down to the valley, the streams run down to ths sea. And my hoart, my .heart, Oh, far one! sets and strains toward thee. :: Swtst Love Is Dead. Sweet Love Is dead : Where shall we -bury hlmt In a green bed. With no stone at his head And no tears nor prayers to worry him. Do you think he will sleep Dreamless and quiet? Yes, if we keep Silence nor weep O'er tho grave where the ground worms riot. By his tomb let us part. But, hush! he Is waking! Ha hath winged a dart And the mock-cold heart With the wos of want is achln;. Feign we no more. Sweet Love lies breathless. All we foreswore Be as before. Death may die but Love is deathless. :jj: Sines We Mast Die. I. Though we must die. I would not die When yearlings blindly bleat, When wild geese stream across the sky, And the cart-lodge timbers creak. For it would be so lone and drear To sleep beneath the snow. When children carol Christmas cheer. And Christmas rafters glow. ir. Nor would I die, though we must die. When yeanlings blindly bleat, When the cuckoo laughs and lovers sigh, And oh, to live Is sweet! When cowslips come again, and spring So winsome with their breath And Life's In love with everything With everything hut Death. III. Let me 'not die, though we must die. When bowls are brimmed with cream, When milch cons in the meadows lie Or wade amid the stream; When dewy-dimpled roses smile To see the face of June. And lad and lass meet at the stile Or roam beneath the moon. IV. Since we must die, then let me die When Hows the harvest ule, When the reaper Iayx the sickle by Andtaketh down the flail: When ail we prised and all we planned Is ripe and stored at last. And Autumn looks across the land And ponders on the part Then let me die. Alfred Austin. mw$m Celebrated Female eers oerer full. ISfln MritK t.n ilk ami MralKU aum i S. A. UA, MM Mr, BMMi W FLORAL. DESIGN'S. Clark, Q. R. & Co., 301 Washington. CATERER. Huntington, J. C, 308 N. Washington. GROCERIES. Pirie, J. J., 427 Lackawanna, UNDERTAKER AND LIVERT. ' Raub, A. R., 42S Spruce. ' DRUOOISTS. McGarrah A Thomas, too Lackawanna. Lo rents, C, 418 Lacka,;. Linden ft Wash. Davis, a W., Main avnd Market Bioes, W. S Peckvtlle. Davies, John J., 108 8. Main. CARRIAGES AiD HARNESS. Slmwell. V. 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