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The street in which is situated the house where Anthony Hope's literary labors are pursued is one of the dullest in London. This is Buckingham street, Strand, and from Hope's window one looks out on dismal brick houses, veiled for the most part in a dull and’ disspiriting mist. Yet it is from his room in this very street that Anthony Hope sends forth those works which for their verve and brilliance shows him to us as a kind of St. George of the pen triumphing over the dragon of British tedium. Hols a quiet man of gentle manners, un- pretending, courteous, an English gentleman in one word, with a soft voice which drops at the end of each sentence as though apologlz- ing for the expression of some opinfon which the person to whom he is speaking might contest. His workroom is furnished after tho fashion of the study of an Oxford under- graduate, with a large bookcase filled with prize books, and in a corner by the fireplace a large writing table of the American fashion, in some disorder with papers, proofs the general litter of the writer's craft. am afraid,” said Anthony Hope, “that my lifo has been a most commonplace one, and I do not remember a single adventure which has come into it at any time." Ho was born in Hackney in 1863. “Mine was & humdrum childhood.” I lived in Hack- ney till I was 9 years old. I can remember no incidents of my life there. I read a great deal, but none of tho books I read made any particular impression upon me. I was a late reader, but when I did know how to read it was my favorite occupation. Stay, I now Temember that 1 was greatly impressed by “The Pilgrim's Progress.’ I used to take it up to bed with me and fall asleep to dream of Apoliyon.” LIKED STORIES AND FOOT BALL, When Anthony Hope Hawkins, this being the full name of the writer known as An- thony Hope, was 9 years old, his father moved to Leatherhead, where he took over a school for boys, an establishment known as 8t. John's school and intended exclusively for the sons of clergymen. “I attended my father's school as a day boy. My father was a clergman, so that I was admissible also to St. John's school. At that tme I was a great reader of Ballantyne, and perhaps my favorite book was ‘The Three Middies.' 1 had the usual number of fights with my schoolmates, but I assure you there was nothing Homerle about them. I had no am- bitions. 1 never once wished to run away to sea. I had no thoughts of becoming a pirate or a highwayman or anything of the sort. 1 just wanted to live my life quietly in a decorous way and to enjoy myself as much as possible whilst working at my leesons as satisfactorily as I could. But as a boy I got quite a passion for foot ball, a game of which I havo ever since been very fond. At the age of 13 T won a scholarahip to Marlborough college.” He had no idea of writing and no taste for literary work at this time in his life, ANTHONY HOPE AT OXFORD. “I remained five years at the school and during the last two years of my life there I was 4 member of the college fifteen. 1 passed from Marlborough to Balliol college in Oxford with an exhibition and the year after won a Balliol scholarship. That was in 1851, 1 enjoyed by 'varsity life immensely, and I look back on rooms in Balllol as the place where perhaps my happlest hours were scnt 1 worked for my examinations and I played games, but I never wrote. I did not even write poetry. I do not think that I ever wrote a verse of poetry in my life, with the solitary exception of a valentine, Indeed, rarely read poetry. It seems (a me that one should read for relaxation, and to read poetry requires an effort superior to that required for reading prose; so when in request of re- laxation I seat myself in my chair I take up the book that will exact in its perusal the lesser effort. I played hard and got into Balliol fifteen and helped my college to beat all the other culleges for two years run- ning. “At that time T had no other ambition n to gain admission to the bar. I worked rly hard, but beyond the ordinary work in essays I did not do any writing. He took his degreo in 1885, and remained ‘up’ during two terms, during which time he suppo ted hims 1f by coaching undergraduates, “From the age of 15 I practically supported myself by my scholarships and exhibitions and I certainly made more money from the age of 15 to the age of 20 than I did during the five years between the ages of 20 and 25.” HIS LIFE AS A LAWYER. He made no particular friends at Oxford, In 1886 another event occurred which helped to shape his life. “In that year I was elected president of the Oxford union, in suc- cession to Lord Robert Cecil. I was a radi- cal and had often spoken on political ques- tions in the unfon debates. The office of president gave me readiness, a mental alert- ness, for 1 had to face the ‘hecklers’ of the debating room. I left Oxford in 1886 and came up to London and read law at Lincoln’s Inn and the Middle Temple, living quietly at home with my people and hoping for nothing but a fairly successful career at the bar, I was calld to the bar at the be- gloning of 1887 and my first case was at Aylesbury, where the judge commis- “ANTHONY HOPE." sloned me to defend some ruffians who were indicted for a murderous assault on a police- man, They all got convicted, and very prop- erly so. I was very nervous, I remember and, Indeed, for a long time I felt very ner- vous when I got up to address the jury. FIRST VENTURES AS AUTHOR, “My biggest cases were on election peti- tions. T did very little criminal work, be- cause I preferred to stay quietly at home in London to going about the country on a cir- enit. I was not very successful at the bar, and for the first two years got very little work, 5o that it impressed itself upon me that T must look to some other source for increasing my income. It was then that I began to write. I never wrote for the papers, because T had no experience in jour- nalism and my ambition was a higher one, In 1889 I wrote my first book, a novel entitled ‘A Man of Mark. I wrote it pretty quickly, although I had no experience in writing and without feeling any particular effort. As I did not hope to be able to find any publisher to take the risk of publishing the first work of an unknown writer, I produced the book at my own expense and published it on com- mission. It was a story about swindling company transactions and the scene was lald In one of the South American republics, It was fairly well recelved by the reviewers. Some of the critics praised it, others attacked it bitterly. I cannot say that apart from a vague hope, I had at the time much expecta- tion from literature as a profession, and, in- deed, I wrote more for amusement than any- thing else. 1 looked on the bar as my career in 1'fe. “AfCr writing “The Man of Mark’ I began writing short stories, which I sent round to the magazines. Almost all of them came back. Very few, if any, got published. Mauy of these early efforts I afterward tore up because had rejected them they were not worth much. were quits right, that Nobody helped me. My fight was a single-handed fight. 1 recognized that the editors who | It was all alone. I was living at home, making a small and varying income at the bar. My average earnings from my pro- fession during the first two years were very small indeed, but then one mustn't expect to make much as a beginner. HARD SEARCH FOR A His next book was “Fi This was writeen in 18 about amongst the publi in vain. At last Messrs. Cassell took it and brought it out as a 6-shilling book. It never did any good and was not a financial success, which shows that the other pub- lishers were quite right in refusing it. 1 then returned once more to the writing of short stories and. contributed fourteen or fifteen to the Saturday issue of the St James Gazette. “Several of these stories,” continued Mr. Hope, “‘were republished together with an- other In my volume entitled ‘Sport Royal.' Literature had now become a subsidiary source of income and helped me in a ple PUBLISHER. ather Stafford.” . “I hawked it hers for a long time was ‘Mr. Witt's Widow,' which I wrote in 1891 and published in 1892, It was very favorably reviewed and it sold fairly well as a 6-shilling book. But it did not in any degree improve my standing as a writer, for though the St. James Gazette continued to publish my storles, there were other editors of magazines who persistently refused my contributions.” STANDS FOR PARLIAMENT. Tn 1892 fate finally decided that Anthony Hope was to be a man who writes and not a man who talks. He made a great bid for pre-eminence as the latter. “That year was occupied by my parllamentary can- didature for the southern division of South Bucks, which I contested as a liberal candidate against Viscount Curzon. I had visited the division in the autumn of 1891, preparing my candidature. The greater part’ of the following year was similarly taken up. I remained in London writing and working at law, and in the evenings would take a train down to Bucks, address some noisy meetings and get the last train back to town. We had some very noisy meetings, but nothing striking or eventful occurred in connection with this campaign. In the intervals of briefs, which had then ome rather more frequent, I wrote my stories. My defeat was a foregone conclu- sion, and £0 I was not in the least surprised when I learned that I had been defeated by a majority of 1,000 votes. It was an in- teresting experience and gave me many good friends in that part of England, “‘A Change of Air’ was written in law chambers at the Temple in 1893, and in the same year 1 published my novel, ‘Half a Hero,’ a story dealing with colonial politics. It had only a small sale as a two-volume novel, but has done well as a 6-shilling vol- ume."” “THE PRISONER OF ZENDA"” AND THE “DOLLY DIALOGUES." In the meanwhile Anthony Hope had struck out in an original line. Mr. Oswald Craw- ford was at that time editing the illustrated weekly paper, called Black and White, and had introduced as a novel feature into this paper a weekly story, told in the form of a dialogue, He relates that one day he re- eived from a writer such a dialogue, which, when he had read it, convinced him that there was for this writer, whose name was unknown to him, a very brilliant future in literature, He at once wrote to Anthony Hope, that was the writer's name, and asked Lim fo continue sending contributions of this kind. “After T had written ‘Half a Hero,' T wrote “The Prisoner of Zenda,’ and history having fascinated me, I fashioned it in the form of a historical novel, that is to say, historical in one sense, for it Is really a modern story of incident, the scene of which is laid in an imaginary republic. It was published by Arrowsmith and at first went very slowly. But the reviews were very favorable and did very well for it, and once 18 had got a start it went ahead. I think that there were sold 14,000 coples in England and nearly twice as many in America.’ After writing “The Prisoner of Zenda” he began contributing to the Westminsier Gazette “The Dolly Dialogues.”” They were s0 greatly appreclated by the readers of the Gazette that the publishers of the paper immediately reprinted them in book form, and of this book brought out a first edition of not less than 20,000 coples. HIS WORK PURE CREATION. “My dialogu my are my pure or tion," Hope. He does not listen when in society, he has no hook in his hand, and no basket on his back. He goes to his head for his repartee, to his imagination for his plots. He moves largely in London society, but he closes rather than opens his ea he people whom he invites us to listen to people that might be but are not. They re the own creations of his genius, people whom one would dearly love to meet in a drawling and vacuous socicty of bores. “My book, ‘The Godlin the Car,’" he con- says tinued, “was begun before ‘The Prisoner of Zenda," but put aside and finished after the latter."” Ercouraged by his success, Anthony Hope gave up the bar in the spring of 1894, and de- cided to devote the future entirely to literature. He is a hard and a regular worker. He comes to his chambers in Buck- ingkam street with the punctuality of a bank clerk. “I reach here at 9:45 in the morning and work on till 4 in the afternoon, or even later,” sail he. “I do not set myself any fixed task to be performed each day, but work rather by time, and take what heaven sends. I am a quick worker, and, though I never rewrite, 1 revise carefully, and am very fidgety over my work.” He does not read greatly. “I have so little time for reading. When I can read I prefer novels, and my favorite authors are Meredith, Kipling and Stevenson. I am also very fond of Norris' work." His pleasure in sports remains, “I have had to give up foot ball,” this regretfully, “but T manage to get a little lawn tennis. And T go out a littlo into society, in a quiet way. 1 am afraid that I take very little exercise, for my place seems to be here at my writing table, and, as I have said, the greater part of my day {s spent her R. H. SHERARD. The British Parliament imposed a tax on bachelors in 1695, and again in 1795. The impost was repealed early in this century. Sims Recves, the famous English tenor, has married a second wife. Reeves is now 73 years of age, and his bride is nearly 50 years his junior. There is one thing about the new woman that should be settled at once. Does she kneel when she proposes, or is she afraid of making her bloomers bag at the knees? Henry Veazie of Tacoma, aged 23, has made a sensation by marrying Kittie Kugen- smith, 46, supposed until recently to be his stepmother. Old man Veazie had given all his property to Henry, and told the woman to go, as he had never married her legally. Mr. Joseph Matthews, who died a few days ago at Lakewood, N. J., was a believer in the scriptural fnjunction to'increase and multiply. He had twenty-five children, eleven by his first wife ard fourteen by his second, who, by the way, was ‘@ sister of his first help- meet. A Harrison, N. ¥, man had to pay $500 for the privilege of marrying the woman of his choice. It was his sécond choice that was the trouble. His first choice demanded the cash to let him off, and he submitted with what grace he could) command at the decision of his rector. When the prudent girl gets engaged she generally stops sugeesting to the young man involved that there is a good play at the Elite theater this week, and encourages him Instead to save up money enough to buy a baby carriage. Lord Dufferin’s som; the earl of Ava, who traveled through this country last season, is so0n to be married in London. The young lady is sald to be clever and charming, and an heiress to a peerage as well as to a for- tune. An article in one of the October magazines shows the ultimate probability of a college woman's marriage to be 65 per cent, as com- pared to 90 per cent for other women. The Boston Journal, in this connection, suggests that some one collect similar statistics with regard to college men. That side of the sub- ject has been sadly neglected hitherto. A triple wedding! was celebrated in Indian- apolis_on the 20th ult. The three brides were Misses Ada, May and Cora Brannan, and the three grooms were Joseph Koss, Willlam McDougall and John W. Ballard, and they were mated in the order named. The first named bride has a twin brother, and the last are twins. The father of the brides is one of the three sets of twins. FOLLOWERS OF HAHNEMAN Annual Convention of the Missouri Valley Association, MARCH OF HOMEOPATHY IN THE WEST Instructive Physicin rin chool Address by an 0 the Growth e of the Homeoputhie of Medicine. The annual meeting of the Missouri Valley Homeopathic Medical association was held in Kansas City during the past week. In point of numbers the meeting was the larg- est in the history of the association, 200 phy- sicians being present from Missouri, Arkan- sas, Towa, Kansas and Nebraska. The open- ing address, delivered by Dr. D. A. Foate of Omaha, president of the association, is spoken of in flattering terms by the press of Kansas City. The doctor spoke in part as follows: “We are assembled today for the consider- ation of a problem which s transcendent in all worldly comparisons, viz., the healing of the sick. Life is a fundamental question and our work, like the coral, is to make pos- sible the flower and fruit of human hopes. “The dignity of our calling lifts our pro- fessions above all the unseemly strifes and ambitions of men. We are the stewards of the temple of the soul—a temple whose e quisite architecture and infinite beauty and symmetry fill us with wonder and admira- tion. 1f true stewards, there comes into our own souls, through long contemplation of this divinely wrought structure and through patient continuance in arduous details, a quality that blesses the souls as well as the bodies of mankind. ““The ripened years that crown the brows of our worthies are resplendent with the radiance of human love and divine glory There is no joy that measures the conscious- ness of usefulness. There is no coin that ex- presses its valu It is more blessed to give than to receive. “The Missouri Valley Homeopathic Medi- cal oclation, born in Omaha, the Gate City of the west and the central figure in the con- stellation of cities that beautifies this valley “the exponent of western enterprise and American grit—the prophecy of that wonder- e e when the fretting Missouri shall be a fettered canal, bearing upon its bosom a mighty commerce to enrich the cities that adorn its banks. It is well that Omaha was the birthplace of such a precocious child, ““The paramount object of this assoclation is the conservation and organization of all the forces of our school along the Missonri valley. Let us have here a body of physi- clans known as the department of the Mis- sourd, if you will, that shall be to our medi- cal fraternity what Sherman's corps was to our country—progressive, aggressive, vic- torious. We have batties yet to fight in the name of modern medicine. Our opposition is always strong and often malicious. But we have forces to conquer a peace, Who is not proud of the Missourk in- stitute? Who has not heard of the strength of the Hahnemann soclety of lowa? Is there not a bright star attracting universal miration In our silver state? Has not the en- thusiasm of Nebraska borne good cheer to our friends In Minnesota and the Dakotas? We are rich in resources, but we are now scgregated, weakened by divisions, We do not mass our forces in columns that go after something and get it. In other words, we are not compassing the victories worthy of our cause as champions of twentieth cen- tury medicine. TWENTIETH CENTURY MEDICINE. “Twentieth century medicine, that is the idea which has been incubating for the past century. One hundred years ago a scientist of the strictest sect, a Pharisee in zeal, the apcealyptic prophet of medicine, discovered and expressed an old law of nature. In the light of this new discovery many absurdities of traditional medicine have reluctantly dis appeared. “'Bleeding, held universal salivation, which long-suftering purgation, sway over & humanity, are rather than now regarded as freaks necessities. Modern medicine is homeopathic, and the sun of the twen- tieth century shall not have reached his merldian glory before its sway is universal, “What has the first 100 years of homeop- athy to say for itself? Go to the halls of twenty colleges in our land, equipped for thorough study in all the sciénces that per- tain to the modern physician, graduating annually 500 physicians, and read the in- scriptions over the doors, “For advanced medical education,” “Similia Similibus Curantur.” Go to 10,000 beds in 115 ho: pitals (a gain of fifty hospitals in five yea and learn that our medicines are mild bul effective, our surgeons quiet but capable, as proven by statistics, which invariably are in favor of our system as compared with other schools. “Listen to the voices of 200,000 patients as they pass out from sixty free dispensarles in the United States. Sit down and read over the table of contents of thirty-five of our medical journals, which are pouring out a flood of light into every corner of the medical world. Listen ta the wisdom and eloquence concentrated in 122 homeop- pathic societies within our borders. Go to the palaces, the huts, the executive man- sions and the penal and eleemosynary insti- tutes and hear the verdict of the sick: “We hold for the plaintiff, because he Indorses ln;e homeopathic law and conserves human ife. ““These are some of the results of the first century of homeopathy. What a record for 100 years, what a phophesy for the twentieth century. And yet there are gentlemen of the old school who assert that homeopathy is dying out. “The first point to emphasiza is organiza- tion. Unite our forc Let us feel the touch of elbows that steady us and do not push us back in a mob-like scramble. Let us per- sistently pursue a plan that will be felt in the legislatures of our several states, T OF THE SPOILS SYSTEM With all the facts and ments on our side, s not recognition in state Institutions reluctant. The spoils system has some- thing to do with this, but we are recognized in many states, without the use of this cor- rupt argument. The American people love liberty, and the slogan of “Taxation without argu- the most representation’ has yet a magic power. Our patrons have a right to have the medicine of their choice prescribed by competent phy- sicians of our school to their unfortunate friends in our asylums and charitable institu- tions. “We shall hcar during this meeting some very cheering reports from lowa, Migsourl, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, and Minne: sota, but justice has not been given us yet, and we lower the dignity of our cause to accept anything less. We should organize to secure the complete control of at least one large public institution in Missourl, Towa, Kansas and Colorado. In the in est of humanity, and because of the bene- ficence of our system in the saving of hu- man life, we should have control of all the public medical charitie: As fast as we gain opportunities to show results our arguments are unanswerable. A recent committee of the county commissioners in Chicago said unofficially that it was to the interest of the taxpayers as well as the patlents that Cook Ccurty hospital should be given entirely to the control of our school, 8o merked was (he superiority of our methods of saving life, and in reducing the number of days of illn ““Homeopathy is the name written upon the standards of an earnest body of broad- minded physicians, surgeons, sclentists, who are enlisted to lead medicine to the highest possibilities. ““One of the missions of this association is to emphasize the fact that our physicians are | the peers of any in sanitary science, in sur- gery, in microscopy, chemistry, and the va- rious specialties which go to make up the equipments of modern medicine, It has been the earnest effort of your humble officers to give an object lesson on this varsatility in the | program prepared for our three days' session. | I wish to thank my worthy co-laborers for thelr ready response. Time forbids mo to prolong this address, but pardon a few per- | sonal allusions. In Is not my purpose to es tablish a precedent by an extended address or a long review of medical history in this | the first presidential address before this so- | clety. In fact, it is my ambitbon, It I am allowed to establish my precedent, to em phasize the breadth and scholarly execution of our bureau work, to give to our discuse sions conciseness of statement and scientifio accuracy. “I have freely given my time and strengthi in the most pleasant work of arousing enthus slasm and enlisting our forces In this assos ciation. No one knows just how much work this has been. “I am repaid a thousand fold by the most kind and effective response of my brother physicians, I cannot conceal the intense pleasure I feel fn this most auspicious meet ing. I have felt an inspiration to aid i starting this project. And now may an Al Wise Providence guide us in our efforts to promote the welfare of humanity through the potent instrumentality of modern medicine.'® —— LABOR AND INDUS TRY. About 1,850,000 square yards of looking glass are manufactured in Europe annually. George Estinghouse, patentee of the brake which bears his name, has made over $20,= 000,000 from his invention. The income of the industrial population of Great Britain has grown in fifty years three times faster than the population itself. Forty locomotives are to be construced at the Baldwin works for the Russian governs ment. South Carolina now has three times as many cotton mills as she had four years ago. Tha capital to construct and operate them mostly comes from the north, The annual report of the German-American Typographia, just lssued, shows 1,092 mem- bers in good standing in twenty loal unions. This is a loss of about 100 members during the last year, cwing principally to the ine troduction of typesetting machines. The Amalgamated Asscclation of Iron and teel Workers s rapidly regaining the strength it had before the big Homestead battle. Many new lodges have been formed during the past few months. Some of them are in mills whero the manufacturers refuse to recognize the organization. The Tremont & Suffolk corporation of Lowell is building a new mill that will give employment to 400 extra hands. The Mas- sachusetts, the Merrimac, the Lawrence and other large mills are increasing their plants, and the Hamilton Manufacturing company is building a $100,000 storehouse, Tie Illinols Central Rallway company is & very live corporation. It 18 looking out for its own interests, primarily, but incidentally it 1s doing @ good deal for the public. Fom instance, the industrial commission of the road last year located thirty-four manufactur- ing establishments along the line, which have an aggregate capital of $4,000,000. Three hundred men, women and children have gone hop picking in the Pleasanton, Cal, fields, under the auspices of the Las bor 'bureau end the San Franclsco co-ops erative commonwealth, They will be proe vided with free lodging In tents, and meals will be supplied at 10 cents each. The pro visions have been donated by business houses, and it I8 proposed to put the tenets of socialism into pratical effect as far ag possible, The recent examination for candidates fon positions in the government printing ofica resulted, in the case of pressmen, in the establishing of an almost unprecedentedly good reeord, every applicant securing an average of 100 per cent. OF those who wera examined as compositors, 63 per cent passed; as pressmen, all passed as bookbinders, 63 per cent, and as skilled laborers, 79 per cent, Telegraphers are alarmingly subject to consumption, according to the British Medls cal Journal. Out of 100 deaths among alk adult males in England, 13.8 are due to cons sumption; out of 100 deaths among the grinde ers in the cutlery trade, 33.1 are due to it while the proportion of the telegraph operas tors is 46.6 In 100. More than half of theny die of diseases of the respiratory organs, against 24 per cent, only, In all other oceuy pation Thero are fifty-two national organizationsy and seven local unions aMliated with the general commission of Germany, having & total membership of 245,600 The furnishing and woodworking trades, with 51,216 memq bers, are the best organized; next come tha metal shipbuilding trades, with 38,127 meme bers; the building trades, with 33,016; minin and ‘quarry $6,068; printing and’ kindred trades, 24,392; lquor and luxurles, 20,6543 leather trades, 20,073; clothlog trades, 10,3023 seafaring, dock labor and transportationg 1.5 i focd producers, 2,338, & L 24