Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 12, 1894, Page 3

HE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12 1894 Tor OMAHA DAILY BEE COUNCIL BLUFFS. NO. 12 PEARL STREE OFFICB . . Delivered by carrier to any part of the city. H. W. TILTON, Lesses. TELEPHONES No. #ditor, No. 23. e e MINOR MENTION, Mayne Real Bstate agency, 539 Breadway. Judge Smith will open distriet court earnest this morning, having wound up business of the term at Atlantic, The various socleties of Christlan En- deavor held a union inceting last evening | in the parlors of the First Presbyterian church. It was largely attended. { Regular meeting of Excelsior lodge, No. | 230, A. F. and A. M., this cvening, Work in the second degree. Visiting brothers cor- dially invited. By order of the W. M. A large audience attended (he afternoon | service at St. Paul's chur terday. Bx-| cellent music was furnished by the ch Mann's service in A flat, and an anthe “Remember Now Thy Creator,” by the Dud- ley Buck quartet, being the pr Sel and CIift Hough and Dick Landon were | arresied yesterday as the outcome of the | row at several gambling houses Saturday night. It fs claimed that Landon had no part in the fracas, save as a spectator, but bis general bad reputation was what caused | his arrest. A “World's Parliament Reading club’ been formed by some of the ladies of the Congregational church, for the purpoge of studying the religions of the world as they were represented In the ‘“parliament” at the World's fair. They meet every Monday afterncon at the residence of Mrs, P. H. Montgomery, on Fourth street. Wanted—Good farm and city loans, We bave $400,000 to loan on improved sceurity at 6 per cent and small commission. W also have m 'y to loan on LOUGEE & TOWLE, 235 Pearl St. Busincss office, In the En has MANUFACTURERS These Are th Prices You Desirable Merehundise BOSTON STORE. Never have the people appreciated prices and good values as much as which accounts for the unusually crowds which thron) our store For the next week we offer new bargains In every department. Read the following list of prices and remember you wil find every thing as advertised. WOOL BLANKETS. At $2.25 we offer a 10-4 gray mixed wool blanket, regular value $3.00, All wool red blanket, a quality, sale price $2.2 All “wool California blankets, usually sold at $5.00, now $3.75 a pair. Ladies' all wool flannel skirts 69¢ each, worth $1.00. Eiderdown flanncls in plain colors, regular 50c quality, now 33c a yard, Gents' blue flannel shirts, all wool, regular price $1.60, manufacturer's price $1.00, Gents' wool sox 1214¢ a pair, worth 20c. Gents' heavy cotton sox at be, 10¢ and 12%c a pair Gents' calf skin lived, regular price 33c a pair, Gents' fur trimmed kid mittens, $1.50 quality, now $1.00 a pair. Ladies' heavy ribbed vests, 60c, manufacturer’s price 30c, Ladies’ ribbed underwear, regular goods, now 19¢ ¢ Gents' fleeced underwear 75 suit. Gents' heavy winter underwear 25¢ each, 60c a suit, Ladies' fleeced hose 121 260 fleeced hose 19¢ a pair. Children's ribbed wool hose, all sizes, 17c a palr, 3 for S0c, extra value, Children’s heavy wool mittens 1214e a pair, 20c_quality, Children's double quality, 26c a pair. Ladies' saxony wool mittens 15c a pair, worth 25e. Ladies’ fancy back wool mittens, regular 89c quality, manufacturer’s price 25 a palr. Big roductions in black dress goods Don't fall to see bargains marked 62%c and 65c a yard, BOSTON STORE. FOWLER, DICK & WALKER, Counctl Bluffs, Iowa, PERSONAL PARAGRAPIS. of Lincoln vEs, Wil Find at the on low now large regular $3.50 large size, gloves and vrico 50c, mittens, wool manufacturer's regular regular price gray h each, $1.50 a mixed, a pair, worth 19c, mittens, regular 40c Ray Teal In the city. R. G. Clancy leaves tcday trip to Salt Lake. Miss Emma Kennard left her old home in Indiana, resido in the future. G. M. Washburn s entertalning a brother from Jamestown, N. Y., at his home on High School avenu Is visiting friends for a weel yesterday for where she will We have a fine lot of chrysanthemums in bloom now. Don't mliss secing them. Visitors always welcome. J. F. Wilcox. At Grand Hotel Postal Telegraph office shorthand reporter and typewriter will write letters, depositions, etc., very cheap. Selected hard wood for heating stoves. H. A. COX, 37 Main street. Tel. 48. Watch City Engineer the astronomical Mercury Saturday eclipse the sun. He entertained quite @ number of friends at the city bullding with snap shots through the city ‘ransit. The telescope was leveled on the Bun and a sheet of paper held a couple of Inches from the rear end. A clear reflection of the sun was thrown upon the paper, with & dlametor of perhaps an finch or more, Across the disk could be seen a dot, hardly as large as the point of a pin, moving at a rate 50 slow that a couple of hours' watching Was necessary to show that it was moving at all. The dot was so small that it would escape the casual observer's eye entirely and would not be visible to the average man aflter any amount of search wuntil it was pointed out to him. Mr. Etnyre's obsery tlons were very intercsting, nevertheless, they were not particularly valuable to sci 4 Morcury Cross, Etnyre was one of amateurs who watched in its attempt to it ence. BEmblem pins, buttons, and Masonic, Odd Fel'ows, labor and societies of all kinds, fine roll plate, 410 Broadway. Copps Cheer wnd Heorb Tonle Can be purchased only of the G. R. Wheeler Brewing company, Wheeler & Hereld, Coun. «il Bluffs, Ta. Grand Hotel, Council Blufts, Koopened. Newly furnished. Every modern con- venfence, First class in all respects. Rates, $2.50 to $3.00. E. F. CLARK, Proprietor. Carpets are cheaper than ever, late pattern of the season is the Council Bluffs Car you like pretty things? charms of all organizations both in gold and at Robinson Bros., 408 and and every displayed by °t company. Do Come and see them, The laundries vse Domestic soap. Skatlog Can lie Had, Yesterday broke the record so far as cold weather Is concerned, so it is claimed by men who have been In the habit of composing the first skating party of the season for the Past twenty years. W. D. Carrothers, one of this class, visited Manawa yesterday after- noon and found it frozen clear across. He Walked out for a distance of 100 feet or more, and found it plenty strong enough to hold bim. No one looked for skating 80 early in the season, however, so that no one but he | ticular use, €| there seems to be no other alternative, and tock and grain. | if (h sand proves to be all that is claimed Paving Question Disturbing the City' NEWS FROM COUNCIL BLUEFS 4 Fathers at Present. CEDAR BLOCK BECCMING A NUISANC: | b Proposition Made o the Streets Counci to KUl Up the Holes | with Sand Wil Consider ibjeet, the The question of how to Ml up the holes the o block paving must be settled and the councilmen are to take a ride in the patrol wagon to a sand bank north of the city for the purpose of ascer- taining if possible whether it is advisable to uso this sand for the purpose. The city owns a tract of land in the vicinity of Big lake, and as it stands now it is of no par- | Park Commissioner Graham has claimed for a long time that arrangements should be made whereby it could be put to some ctical use, and he has also insisted that there tould be no use more practical than filling up holes in the paving. The paving question is a difficult one as 1t now stands. In many places all over the | cify the cedar blocks, which have been in not to exceed four years, are £o nearly worn | out as to render the street almost impassa- ble. Another year will well nigh complete the work of destruction which has been so well begun by the elements, and even then the property owners will have another pay ment or two to make before they are out of debt to the city, A move toward repaving would arouse such a howl from the property owners that any well regulated alderman with a sheep's eye cast toward a renomina- tion would hesitate before allowing it to make itself heard. Under the circumstances in very lar &oon, for it the probability is that it will be carted to the city and put at the disposal of the street commissioner, BENNISON BROS. Monday's Big Sale. Forcing down prices still lower than ever. Wo allow no one to undersell us. 2,000 snow-white cotton batts Monday, roll. All our 12% roll. Standard dress prints, 2%4c a yard. inch 6%c unbleached muslin, yard. G%c canton flannel, 3%c a yard. 7¢ white shaker flannel, 3%c a yard. 1,000 pairs imported all wool knit bootles, 5e a pair. Ice wool, 12%c a box. Saxony yarn, 5c a skein. Buy your dress goods of us Monday. 46-inch all wool black and navy blue storm serge, worth 75¢, Monday, 48c a yard. Gd-inch novelly dress’ goods, that . wer , g0 Monday at 79¢ a yard re Is a snap. For one day, Monday, we offer all our novelty dress patferns, no two alike, that were $10, $12 and $15, your choice Monday for $7.50 per suit. Visit our cloak department. in prices on ladies’ fur capes, day. Open every evening. BE 2140 % . snow-white cotton batts, Tc a 3%c a Another drop Come in Mon- NISON BROS. Council Bluffs, Dry pine kirdling for sale. Cheaper than cobs” H. A, Cox, 37 Main street. Telephone 48. Eag'e laundry, 724 Broaaway, work. Tel. 18 Domestic soap breaks bard water. Wil Investigate the Gam bling Houses. The fact that two fights, in which peeled faces and ‘pulled noses figured conspicuously, took place in two gambling houses was pub lished to the world yesterday morning, and it i3 stated that quite a sensation was cansed in official circles. Mayor Cleaver is said by an Intimate friend to have supposed that the gamblers were thoroughly quelled, although not a move has been made against them since Dr. Cleaver's administration was six weeks old. The same friend, however, Is authority for the statement that inasmuch as the news- papers have published statements to the ef- fect that gambling was going on with but lit- tle attempt at concealment will in ail proba- bility result in an {nvestigation being made. It is well known in all circles but offictal ones that several poker rooms are being run every night in the week, and have been for months past. At least four of them are located within two blocks of the mayor’ residence on North Main street. 2 o acot Duncan Stamped on a shoe means standard of merit. Our $5.00 line of ladies’ high class hand- made shoes in every variety and form for 50. kl‘]‘vry pair hand-sewed, high grade shoes, superior in form, finish, elas- ticity and yielding grace and guaranteed cqual in quality to any $3.00 or $6.00 shos sold elsewhere. We have the swellest lines of men's im- proved patent leather shoes for $1.00 and $5.00, and every thing that one could wish in dancing slippers for children, misses, boys, ladics and men. Headquarters for rubbers, overcoat is strictly overshoez and B. M. DUNCA! Cole & Cole will reduce the price $2.00 on genuine Round Oak stoves. They burn either hard or soft coal. At 41 Main street Main street. @G. A. R. dance Monday evening, Novem- ber 12. Admission, gentiemen, 25c; ladies, 10, B Beuriclus' music house has few expenses high grade plancs are sold reasonabiy. 116 Stutsman street. Domestic soap cutlasts cheap soap. gl S R MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA. An After Dinner Toast that General Sl man rrupted. national convention of lawyers west some years ago Mr. Du Bignon was sent to represent Georgla, his native state. Being one of the rising men of his region, he was also invited to respond to the toast, “The Young Manhood of the Southi,” at the large banquet to be given. The young lawyer prepared his reply with care, feeling he had done his best, which as all the bar could expect of him. His toast was the tentin in iine and the toast master had pronounced In distinct tones the title of the toast, and added that Mr. Flem. ing Du Bignon of Georgia would reply The lawyer rose slowly to his feet, glanc- ing as he did so down the long double line of expectant, polite, upturned faces smiling at him, encouraging him to proceed. His “‘plece” was all clearly in mind; he re- membered every planned gesture, every turn and “point” he proposed to make. “Gentlemen of the bar,” he began, “I General Sherman,” delightedly broke In the toast master, and “'Sherman!” “Sher man!” was echoed all down the table, which saw dozens of men stand to their feet to greet the great soldier-lawyer as he entered the room. General Sherman had promised to attend this convention, but had been detained by other engagements until this late hour, and his advent was halled with a burst of wel come as ha advanced down to his vacant chair. Every one was shaking hands with him, creating quite a hubbub. r When the met in the the rising mechanieally to his feet eral Sherman's face looking at him Wwith in- a —the men ull looked anxious and Interested— confusion There was a young fellow's audacity, and then the room rang with cellent ately fixed themselves into attitudes of inter- | |in latter part of these thoughts he was He stood still for a second and saw Gen- terest. The silence was appalling! He felt that every one was thinking '‘Poor fellow, he doesn’'t know what to say." In a quiet tone, in which, however, he felt uiver, he commenced Jentlemen, T am confounded! The advent f %0 noted a warrlor as General Sherm has made me forget every word of my speech ‘but 1 think you can scarcely wonder at my | Georgians are so used to the fact | of General Sherman following them, that it Is enough to simply paralyze any one of them to be asked to follow the general.” ause for an instant over the appreciative applause of his ex- wit Men leaned over their plates and immedi- est; they at once perceived that, at least, an original young chap was going to spea Mr. Du Bignon felt the personal magnetism he had excited reflect on himself, and con- tinued with more assurance. He said that he would tell a story about the young manhood of the south; the very young manhood, Including his first impres- sions of General Sherman. The time was the civil war, the place Mill- edgeville, “I was only a little shaver, he started, “staying at home, taking care ot my mother and younger brother. All the men had gone to war. The cry started early the morning, ‘Sherman is coming! It increased from a whisper to a frightened shout. The old negroes who were at home left the field and plow and gathered in their cabins, exactly as if it had been said ‘The Judgment day is coming!" People stood ir- resolute in the street, not knowing what to do or whether it was best to go anywhere, Even the chickens and cows seemed to under- stand that portentous phrase that was filling the air—‘Sherman fs coming!' “And later on he came. Soldlers and horses, they began to fill the little town and the people’s houses, and fear was the pre- vailing element. “1 insisted that my Shetland pony and my brother's pet rooster must be saved. My mother equally insisted that I was to stay in the house, for if not the soldiers would carry me away. 1 was made a prisoner, but owned a window, and when I saw one of the soldiers go under our house and catch the rooster and wring its neck I was certain my pony would go next. o, jumping out of the window, I ran to the soldier and, doubling up my fist, cried: ‘Dog-gone you, old Yankee, if you take that pony I'll report you to Gen- eral Sherman.’ " He stopped for an instant and then continued courteously: “General, he id take my pony, and this is my first opportunity to report to you." Mr. Du Bignon of Georgia won the day Men cheered him as he took his seat for his cleverness, and General Sherman, jumping up, said: “Will some one present me to the young rebel 2" o (R Ge L verdising. No hotel in New York has spent so much money for advertising as the Broadway Central hotel, and the result s the largest business ever done by any of the great down- town houses. The number of guests for the month of August was 14,846, against 13,000 same month last year, while Septem- ber house count was 15,796. This beats all previous records. Some of these guests are families return- ing from Europe and the seashores, but the majority are business men and their families. A convenient central location; a first class house and service, with reasonable charges and letting the public know by advertising the fact, has made the Broadway Central one of the most successful hotels today in New York.—New York Hotel Mall. RELIGION OF THE SIOUX Monstrous Customs W Had to Combat. Licutenant Wassell, of the United States army, who is familiar with Sioux life, con- tributes to the November Harper's an arti- cle showing in a very favorable light the work done by both Catholic and protestant misslonaries among the Indians. Of their former rites and superstitions, he says: To the Sioux of the past religion was truly a mystery. From the simple growth of the blade of grass to the complex phe- nomena of the thunder storm, all life, power, and strength were interpreted as the physlcal acts of unknown gods. The Great Spirit is a name given us by the interpreter, for the Sioux had no conception of a single spirit, however great, capable of ruling the universe. Lightning was the anger of a thunder god, an awful bird, whose structure varled from wings containing only six quille to wings with four joints each, according tc the imagination of ‘the medicine-man. The moving god, he whose aid it was most diffi- cult to invoke, was too subtle to be likened to any known form, but he controlled the intellect, passions, and mental faculties, ab- stractions for which the Sioux has not even a name. The Hayoka was the contrary god, who sat naked and fanned himself in the coldness of a Dakota blizzard, and hud- dled shivering over a fire in the heat of summer, who cried for joy and laughed in his sorrow. Rocks and bowlders were the hardest and strongest things; hence they belonged to the oldest gods—smaller rocks were fetiches. On the barren buttes of the Dakotas may be seen many a crumbling pile of stones erected In by-gone days to pro- pitiate an unknown god. Many a forgotten chief has gone to the highest hill when his son was sick, and amidst fastings and in- cantations reared a mound of little stones in the hope that his loved one's life might be spared. And still another relic of the savage belief of the old Sioux is found on the bodies of the warriors themselves, Take almost any man who is 30 years old or more, and he can show you long scars on his back or breast, and dozens of smaller scars on his arms, all inflicted by himself in fulfilling his vows to the sun. ~The sun dance was one of the great religlous and political events of the Sioux life. Whole villages assembled and feasted, while the worshipers fasted and exhausted the strength they were to need so badly in the coming test of endurance. On the appointed day none but virgins were allowed to cut down and trim the tree that was to be used while only chiefs and warriors of exc tional bravery were allowed to carry it to its place in the center of the village. Here, with mysterious pips-smokings and unin telligible incantations, the pole is planted, ropes of buffalo hide having been fastened to its top, one rope for each worshiper. The men, already halt dead from exhaustion, are then brought out and laid on the ground around the pole, always ready knives thrust through the muscles of their chests or backs, and in the holes thus made wooden skewers thrust, to which are fastened the loose ends of the ropes. Then round and round dance the worshipers, thelr eyes fixed on the blazing sun, while the jerk jerk, jerk of the bleeding flesh beats a sickening time to the hi-yas of a Dakota song. Friends and relatives, men, women and children gash their arms and breasts to stimulate the dancers and keep up their courage, When the flesh is torn apart the dancer released, his vow fulfilled, his bravery, his manhood unquestioned. These and & thousand other monstrous customs were what the early missionary had to com- bat. Missionarle is - Oregon Kidney Tea cures nervous head- aches. Trial size, 25 cents. All druggists. e The Fooi Killer Needed, A fool of somewhat unusual character lives in Dexter, Me. His name Is not known yet, but detectives are after him. He is the man who has undertaken to act as judge at a pov- erty ball and award the prize to the “‘warst looking lady and gentleman.” By the time the prize-winners get through with him the Killer's task will be easy. DRAWING THE IDEAL SLEUTH The Material from Which Was Molded the SOME SECRETS OF CONAN. DOYLE'S LIFE country a week ago, has come ostensibly to | eriminal own capture {s beyént~dlspute. Prince of Detectiyes, The Author of “Sherlock Holmes” at Col- His Study s Arctic kx- perlence, Literary Thite nod Opinions, lege and 1 (Copyrighted Dr.eA. Conan Doyle, 1804.) who arrived in this deliver a serles of lectures, but the real ob ject of his visit is to travel through the United States. 1f the well known novelist is curious to see America, he may rest as- sured that the public here is equally eager to make his acquaintance, Of that brilliant group of, vigorous Scotch- men who are just now delighting the literary | world, no single one presents a more inter- esting personality than Mr. Doyle. Although but 83 years of age, his historical romances and thrilling detective stories have earned him a phenomenal reputation. To the aver- age reader he is best known, perhaps, through the exploits of that wizard in unraveling mysteries, Sherlock Holmes. And since the author has announced that Holmes is definitely dead, never more to be revived in fiction, a vivid interest centers about the creation of the very prince of detectives. Dr. Doyle himself frankly acknowledges that this unique character was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell of Edinburgh, one of his pro- fessors at the Scotch university. While he could scarcely be called the original Sherlock Holmes, yet Dr. Bell's singular genius for noting details and from them forming a chain_of circumstantial evidence, certainly gave Doyle the clew to his now famous hero. A theory which Dr. Bell constantly advanced was that any really good doctor ought to be able to tell before a patient has fairly sat down just about what s the matter with him or her. With a woman especially this ob- servant physiclan can often tell by noticing her exactly what part of her body she going to talk about. He persistently im- | pressed upon his students—Conan Doyle among them—the vast importance of little distinetions, the endless significance of trifies Dr. Bell says: “The great majority of peo- ple, of incidents, and of cases resemble each other in the main and larger features. For instance, most men have apiece a head, two arms, a nose, a mouth, and a certain number of tecth. It is the little differences, in them- selves trifles, such as the droop of an eyelid, or what not, which differentiate men." The doctor fllustrated his mode of proced- ure by giving one or two instances to prove the successful application of his theory, and both of them are strongly suggestive of Sher- lock Holmes' methods. “'Once,” he said, “a man walked into the room where I was in- structing the students, and his case seemed t0 be a very simple one. I was talking about what was wrong with him.' ‘Of course, gen- tlemen,’ 1 happened to say, ‘he has been a soldier in a Highland regiment and probably a ‘bandsman.’ I pointed out the swagger in his walk suggestive ' of the piper; while hls shortness ‘told me that it he had been a soldier, it was probably as a bandsman. In fact, he had the whole appearance of & man in one of the ITighland regimente. The man turned out to be nothing but a shoemaker, and had never been in the army in his lfe. This was rather a floorer, but, being absolutely certain I was right, Seeing something was up, 1 id a pretty’ cool thing. 1 told two of the strongest clerks or dressers to remove the man to a side room and detain him until 1 came. I next had him stripped, and under the left breast I instantly detected a little blue ‘D' branded on his skin. He was a deserter. That was how, they used to mark them in the Crimean .days,.and later, al- though it i3 not permitted now. Of course, the reason of his evasion was at once clear. “Conan Doyle,” the doctor continued, “was one of the best students 1 ever had. He wa: exceedingly interested always in anything connected with diagnos’s, and was never tired of trying to discover all those little details one looks for. 1 remember he was muci amused once when a patient walked in and sat down. 'Good morning, Pat,’ 1 said, for it was Impossible not to s¢e that he was au Irishman, ‘Good morning, your honor,’ re- pled the patient. ‘Did you like your walk over the links today as you came in from the south side of the town?' | asked. ‘Yes,' said Pat. ‘Did your honor see me? Well, Conan Doyle could not see how I knew that, absurdly simple as It was. On a showery day, such as that had been, the reddish clay at bare parts of the links adheres to the boot, and a tiny part is bound to remain There is no such clay anywhere else around the town for miles. That and one or two imilar instances exc'ted Doyle's kaenest in- terest, and set him experimenting himself with very brilliant results, as you know In Conan Doyle's study, which is work- shop, smoking room and snuggery all in one, there stands on the showcase the bust of & man with a keen, shrewd face. At first glance one Is apt to fancy it the portrait of some great British statesman, which is quite a mistake. It is a clever bit of imaginative work done by a young Birmingham sculptor, Wilkins by name. He cast it in plaster and sent it to Dr. Doyle as his id=al of Sherlock Holmes. The lean, well modeled head, close- shut lips, Inscrutable eyes and iron jaw make an admirable conception of the now famoue detective, And by the way, it would be hard to find a more workmanlike room than this cosy study where “The Refugees,” “The Slapping Sal” and many another brilliant bit of fiction was written. The work bench proper stands In the corner—one of ihose fat-topped desi 50 prevalent in England. The English author does not seem to take kindly to the haughty roller-lop American desk, covered with trans- parent varnish and twenty-three patents. There {8 a bookcase, filled with solid his torical volumes for the most part. The most remarkable feature of the room s a scries of watercolor drawlngs done by Co-an Doyle's father. The Doyle family has always been a family of artists, and the celebrated cover of Punch is, as everybody knows, the work of Richard Doyle. The drawings by Mr. Doyle's father are most weird and imaginative, being In art something like what Edgar Allen Poe's stories are in fietion There are harpoons on the wall, for Doyle hias been a whale fisher in his time, and has the skull of a polar bear, and the stuffed body of an Iceland falcon to show that his aim was accurate. There are but two other Iceland falcons in_England. The novelist came nearer to the No:th pole than New York XPERIENCES is to Chicago. xfihur‘v varied life was HIS ARCTIC No part of this a richer in experlence .to him than the months he spent aboard a Petejhead whaler., He roughed it with the sturdy, Scotch crew, but his percaptive artist's nature received a thousand sharp impressiong of which his com- panions remained ignorant. No one has de- ibed the sightings and, hunt of a whale 50 vividly as Dr. Doyle, who says “It is not that the' preent gencration is less persistent and skilfyl than its prede- cessors, nor 1s it that the Greenland whale is In danger of becoming ‘extinct, but the true reason appears to ba'that nature, while de- priving this unwieldy maks of blubber of any weapon has gl it In compensation a highly intelligent b"::b. That the whale entirely understands -the mechanism of his To swim backward and forward beneath a floe, in the hape of cutting the ropesmgainst the sharp edge of the ice, is a common device of the creature after being struck. however, it realized the fact that there are By degrees, || ing, 160, when the creature s spent, and ymlr} boat pulls In to give it the coup de grace with cold steel, that is also exclting! A hun- | dred tons of despair are churning the waters | up Into a red foam; two great black fins are rising and falling like the sails of a windmill, | casting the boat Into the shadow as they droop — over it, but still the har- | pooner clings to the head, where no harm can come, and, with the wooden | butt of the twelve-foot lance against his stomach, he presses it home until the| long struggle is finished, and the black back rolls over to expose the livid, whitish surfac beneath. Yet amid all the excitement—and no one who has not held an oar In such a scene can tell how exciting it is—one's sym- pathies lie with the poor hunted creature The whale has a small eye, little larger than that of a bullock, but I cannot easily forget | the mute expostulation which I read in one as It dimmed ever in death within hand’s touch of me. What could it guess, poor creature, of laws of supply and demand or how could it imagine that when nature | placed an elastic filter inside its mouth, and when man discovered that the plates of | which it was composed were the most pliable and yet durable things in creation, its death warrant was signed?” Conan Doyle is not extremes, but it seems matter of his voyaging from the Arctic circle, Edinburgh, and at once western coast of Aftiea Here 18 a tragedy of the curred when Doyle was a boy. He read an account of it at the time, and it made a powerful impression on his young mind. An American ship called the Marie Celeste was found abandened off the west coast Noth- | ing on her was disturbed and there was no | signs of a struggl Her cargo was un- | touched, and there was no evidence that she | had come through a storm On the cabin table was screwed a sewing machine, and | on the arm of the sewing machine was a spool of slk thread, which would have | fallen off if there had been any motion of | the v She was loaded with and here papers showed she had left more for Lisbon. She was taken to Gibral- tar, but to th's day no one knows what be- came of the captain and crew of the Marie | Celeste, | This mystery of the sea set the future | Sherlock Holm at work trying to find a solution of it. There was no clew to )'u‘ on except an old Spanish sword, found in the forecastle, which showed signs of hav- | ing been recently cleaned. Doyle's soluton of the problem appeared in the form of story for the Cornhill Magazine, entitle J. Habbakuk Jepheon's Statement.” Jeph- | on was supposed to be an American doctor | who had taken passage on the ship for his health Shortly after the story appeared the following telegram was printed in all the London papers “Solly Flood, her majesty’s advocate gen- eral at’ Gibraltar, telegraphs that the state- ment of J. Habbakuk Jephson is nothing less than a fabrication.” So It was, but the telegram was a com. pliment to the realism of the story, to say the least, HIS METHODS OF Dr. Conan Doyle is a methodical writer and a hard worker. He pastes up over his mantel shelf a list of the things he intends to do in the coming six months, and he sticks to his task until it fs done. ~He must be a great disappointment to h's old teacher. When he hod finished school the cher calied the boy up before him and said, sol- emnly: ‘Doyle, 1 have known you now for seven years, and I know you thoroughly going to say something to you that y, | remember in after life. ~ Doyle, you will | never come to any good The making of an historical novel involves much hard reading. The result of this hard reading Doyle sets down in a note book. Sometimes all he gets out of sev- eral volumes is represented by a couple of pages in this book. For some time he has been greatly interested in the Na- poleonic revival, and has recently written some marvelously good short storles set in the stormy period of the first empire. When asked by a friend for his opinion of the great Corsican, Dr. Doyle replis “He was a wonderful man—perhaps the most wonderful man who ever lived. What strikes me fs the lack of finality in his character. When you make up your mind that he is a complete villain, you come on some noble trait, and then your admiration of th's is lost in some act of incredible meanness. But just think of it! Here was a young fellow of 30, a man who had no socfal advantages and 'but slight educa- tional training, a member of a poverty- stricken family, entering a room with a troop of kings at his heels, and all the rest of them jealous if he spoke a moment longer to one than to the others. Then there must have been a great personal charm about the man, for some of those intimate with him loved h'm."” LITERARY TASTES AND OPINIONS. Conan Doyle takes a very optimistic view the future of romantic literature, - He “I think there never was a time when there was a better promise. There are at least a dozen men and women w ho have made a deep mark, and who are still young. No one can say how far they may go. Some of them are sure to develop, for the past shows us that fiction is an art which improves up to the age of 50 or so. With fuller knowledge of life comes greater power in describing it. For example, there are more than a dozen—Barrie, Kipling, Olive Schreiner, Sarah Grand, Miss Harraden, Gil- bert Parker, Quiller-Couch, Hall Caine, Stevenson, Stanley Weyman, Anthony Hope, Crockett, Rider Haggard, Jerome, Zangwill, Clark Russell, George Moore—many of them under 30 and few of them much over it. Then If a man keeps out of grooves and refuses to do lis work in a mechanical way he steadily ad- vances. Why, many of the great writers in | our fiction did not begin until after 40. Thackeray was about 40. Scott was past 40 Charles Reade and George Eliot were much. Richardson was 50. To draw life one must know it. My experience is that when a man 18 50 he knows he will improve until he is 60, and when he is €0 he feels that improvement will keep right on until he is 70; whereas, when he s 20 he thinks that per- haps he will know more when he is 30, but Is not sure. Man is an amusing animal. “Then, although I do not read as much American fiction as I should like, what I have read has, I hope, been fairly representa- tive. T know Cable's work, and Eugene Field's, and Hamlin Gariand’s, and Edgar | Fawcett's, and Richard Harding Davis’, I think Harold Frederic's ‘In the Valley' is one of the best of recent historical romancee. The danger for American fiction is, 1 think, that it should run in many brooks instead of one broad stream. There is a tendency to overaccentuate local peculiarities; differences after all, are very superficial things, and good old hum.an nature is always there under a coat of varnish. When one hears of a literature of the west or of the south it sounds aggressively sectional. Barrie and Hardy might, I know, have the same charge brought against them, unless one closely enough to appreciate that they gained success by showing how the Sesteh or Wessex peasant shares our common human nature, not by accentuating the points | in which they differ from us.” The author of Sherlock Holmes expressed himself strongly concerning Willlam Dean Howells' strictures upon art in romance writ- ing. He said: ““We talk so much about art that we tend to forget what this art was | a man that who he did He came took his degree shipped for goes to in the home at the sea_which o clocks, | Balti WORK. of say LOVE often depends on beauty. the loss of 1 titul. Ruin leaching The loss of one m e other. Gray hair is seldom 1 hair, streaked and patchy never is IMPERIAL Hair Regenerator, ectly restores a_rich, lustrous color, the hair healthy, and is clean, or Turkish taths do mot affect it £ makes Steaming, salt, It 18 4% nats | changes will all be affected by means of the | body | tul fa themse'ves | the | and by-laws of the club, the members were ever Invented for. It was to amuse man kind--to help the sick and the dull and the weary. 1f Scott and Dickens have done this for millions they have done well by their art.” Where would Gulliver and Don Quixote and Dante and Goethe be if our sole object was to draw life exactly as it exists? No; the object of fiction is to interest, and the best fiction fs that which interests most If you ean interest by drawing life as it is, do so. But there Is no reason why you should object to your neighbor using other means, “I think the age of fiction Is coming age when religious and the social and political novelist. Look, within recent years, much has been done by such books as ing Backward' or ‘Robert Elsmere,’ Is educated now, but comparatively fow are very educated. To get an idea to pene- | trate to the masses of the people you must put fiction around it, like sugar round a il No statesman and no ecclesfastic will have the influence on public opinfon which the novelist of the future will have. 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