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Under the Lamp
With Late BooRa
THE TBOLL GARDEN.
ILL A SIBERT CATHEK,
the brilliant attache of
The Pittsburg, Leader, has
hit upon a happy title tor
the 'collection of stories
which she brings out as
“The Troll Gulden’—
stories of singers and
artists and of Bonero’.an
life in the east, which siie
has been contributing to
the magazines, and which
she knows marvelous y
well how to write, it is
not so much the story—there s not mu .li
attempt at that, but rather what appears
in each instance, a detawhed portion of
Lady” deals with a world of antomobiles
and steam-cars and has a theme of dis
tinctly modern character.
The scene is laid in Europe—Paris,
Venice, Naples—and the story concerns
a charming young American girl and her
three lovers—a young American, a pov
erty-stricken Italian, and a fortune-nunt-
ing Italian count. The narrative is put
into the mouth of the poor Italian, who
is one of the sweetest and most loveable
characters Mr. Tarkington has yet
drawn. He sacrifices himself to show up
his rascally ca.mpatriot and to win the
girl for the American.
Mr. Tarkington has recently returned
from a long trip in Europe, and this de
lightful and fragrant story is one re
sult of his sojourn across the water.—Mc-
Clure-Phillips Company, Publishers, New
York.
tions of color which will give us not only
novelty, 'but have a distinct value from
the eye-doctor’s point of view.—Life Pub
lishing Company, Publishers, New York.
Publication Notes
RUSSIAN LITERATURE.
Prince Kropotkin as a leader among
the Russian writers of today and master
also in English his adoptive tongue, oc
cupies a unique position. He has been
one, depicted with all . nt | I for many years an intermediary, as it
most highly cultivated imagination ana —
the delicacy which suggests the 'isc
Jools of pin edge. No detail is too *ma..
to be neglected, and every stroke is made
to count "The Sculptor’s Funeral” per
haps Che best in the group, is like a lme
painting in Che impressionistic it is all
tin ore, and a good deal more In sugges-
t j ons i n the feeling and emotion ex ’- ed j c ] osor understanding of the Russian peo-
’ in the breast of the reader. ^ j pie than English readers have yet been
were, between Russian and English
thinkers. Nothing he has done in this
character is .so important as his "Russian
Literature,” just brought out by Mc-
Clure-Phillips. Its sub-title is “Ideals
and Realities,” which indicates tjie view
point adopted by the author. As a na
tion's spirit is embodied in its literature,
this volume is sure to lead to a tpuch
>t her
charm, as it is
ar. J
The aut hor's experience, of f rontier We
in the west, with Us dead stretches ot
prairie and monotony, an I again ot -
art centers in the plethoric east, enable
her to set one against Che other with ti
ling effect, as in "A Wagner Matinee,
an incident too touching for anything
less than tears. It is this infinite co n-
prehensiol of the feeling, of the
person that is the chief
in one of refined sensibility—this, ^
,the power to portray every slightest fea
ture which miglh't have escaped a percep
tion less true. Any group of men and
women in the hands of this arust be
comes a center of interest, tens- «.t ■ |
life; even the inanimate objects which
move them; personalities are individual
to a degree impossible to tbe average,
and each impresses itself upon you until
vou recall it as a one-time acquaintance.
colors
imagination transforms into pictures
swift and dazzling as the wings of fancy;
her power of description is equal with
her perception, and her fund of words,
of which there is never too many, an
endless delight. Of her excluding clever
ness there can be never a doubt. But .
■When a writer like til is, of undeniable
gifts, comes into view on the literal j
horizon, there is one unfailing exaction
which sooner or later will have to be |
met—he must inspire bis public with the
confidence not onJy 'that 'he is giving ol
,his best, but tuat it rings true in the
passage from him to it. We cannot, n°r
would not be willing to, quite believe that
. >-* 1 M tho H P Tilt Vl S
The son of Anthony Trollope, the nove’.-
si, has apparently inherited litera.r-
aptitude. He is about to publish a cal e-
ful biography of Moliere.
Scribners publish a delightfully illus^
trated summer book, "Italian Sketches,
whidh will be admired by those who en
joy artistic worjt if books. The volume
is replete with handsomely prepared re
productions of sketches of the romantic
scenery of Italy and its descriptive part Is
no whit behind the artist s contribu
tions.
Over half a century aiso, Ticknor's
"History of Spanish Literature” was
translated Into Spanish and German, but
since then no American work of literarj
scholarship has received the honor of
translation into a foreign tongue. Now,
however, the "History of Literary Criti
cism in the Renaissance” (New York;
Macmillan Company), by Professor J. E.
Splngarn, of Columbia University, has
been brought out in an Italian version
by the well known publishers. G. Laterza
& Figlt, of Bari, under the title of “Storia
della Critlca Letteraria nel Rinasclmen-
to.” The translator. Dr. Antonio
Fusco, a specialist in the field of literary
criticism, has performed his task weli:
and the author (has enriched the work
with so many additions a.nd corrections
as almost to make it a new book. The
work in its new form is introduced to
continental readers by a brief but highly
interesting preface from the pan of Bene
detto Groce, editor of La Critica. of
Naples, and one of the most distinguish
ed critics of .contemporary Italy.
On June 15 title Harpers will issue
"Sketches New and Old,” by Mark
Twain, in binding uniform with the vol
umes previously published in their trade
edition. This collection contans sixty-
six sketches in all, numbering, among
them some of the earlier ones that first
made the fame of this great humorist.
Among the titles are * I he Jumping
Frog;” “Curing a Cold;” “The Mem
branous Croup;” "Riley—Newspaper Cor
espondent;” and the sad stories of the
good and the bad little boys.
A dramatic firm in New York city,
which has a reputation for letting noth
ing good escape 'them when it can be
avoided, has been quick to see the drama,
erick of Prussia, Maria Theresa and j tic possibilities in Philip Verrill Mighels
"The Ultimate Passion.” .recently pub
lished by the Harpers. Immediately upon
reading the book, they telephoned Mr.
Mighels for .the dramatic rights, and
while no decision has been reached as
yet there is a possibility that the novel
may be staged. While a main feature
of the novel is tSie startling disclosure
able to achieve.
Kropotkin begins at the very origin of
his country’s literature in folklore and
mythology, and follows its development
down to the present day; treating it from
the personal point of view, and laying
stress upon such leading authors as
Pushkin, Gogol Dostoievski, Tourgenleff,
etc. He gives copious extracts from
many masterpieces that have not been
translated into English. The chapters of
the 'book were delivered as lectures be
fore the lyowell institute. Boston.
THE COURTSHIP OF CATHERINE
THE GREAT.
Philip W. Sargeant, in his hook j ne
Courtships of Catherine tbe Great," just
published by J. B. Lippineott Company,
takes up some of the most interesting
aspects of Catherine and produces a full
Words and ~ . . s length picture of that remarkable wo
hi-ch tine brush ot this gi'"^ ... - . .
man. which focuses attention immediate
ly upon her salient qualities. In a vol
ume published nine years ago on Cath
erine II of Russia and her attitude to
wards tbe French revolution, the French
writer. M. C. de Lariviere classed Fred-
VF Literary Drift- Wood &
Catherine the Great with “King Voltaire,
ns the great masters of the Eighteenth
century. There is a justice in this ver
dict. which makes it no matter for fur-
j prise that, while interest is still taken
in what Mr. Havelock Ellis calls “the
most human century,” books should con
tinue to be written about any of the
four. And of them all. certainlv Cath- j it makes of some methods of present-day
j erine is the most fascinating character, corruption in New York city, the love
time were to be conscious of the enjoy
ment of an artistic performance. But
half a dozen! Tbe sadness were to pal
pable. the eternal want of tihings. And
we are reminded again of Bayard la>-
lor's little "Story of the Key Flower,
and the old kobold’s words to the shep
herd, "Don't forget the best!”
A WOMAN’S CONFESSIONAL.
Much curiosity is bound to arise con
cerning the identity of the author of this
little book. The epigrams of which it is
made up are clever In themselves, and
they reveal very frankly the workings
of a woman’s mind on subjects which
women rarely discuss and about which
It must be that she lias forgotten llle jthe.v tell the truth more rarely. The
beat,”—something Is lacking in this ac
cumulation of unrelieved situations, and
•we confess to hoping for better tihings
from a source so evidently capable
real thoughts and beliefs of this woman
may not thoroughly meet the approval
of the more conventional and straight-
laced of her sex, but all women will find
them. Though, for the melomaniac w, hoI them Interesting through their very
prefers the luxury of an unavailing pas- , frankness. Their cleverness of expres
sion for a foreign tenor or a waning so- s j on and marked originality are bound
prano star, or the stage struck, or those j , to attract the attention of men and wo-
•who, failing of the gift. would have airmen alike.
at any cost, 'this sort of thing were] -pile epigrams are extracts from the
fascinating beyyid any fault to find— journal of a woman who was born of
as, indeed, to us all up to a certain jxunt. | ;l distinguished family in Vienna. Her
The little book is thoroughly delight- life, j s carried from here to the western
ful while you rend, but whether you will ; part of America and through various vi-
consider afterward that it was worth j ciesitudes to studio life in one of the
while, must be necessarily a matter ol j larger cities—presumably New York. The
Individual taste. | book reveals her inmost thoughts, some
FLORENCE I>. TUCKER, j bitter, some loving. some passionate,
Published by McClure-Phillips & Co., | some sad but ay carrying with them in
New York
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I trinsic evidence of their verity.
“A Woman’s Confessional" i*j a unique
little hook in its make-up. being printed
In his new book, "The Beautiful Lady,” | throughout in purple ink, the cover a
Booth Tarkington returns to the dainty, : light mauve and the inside pages an
fanciful manner that brought him such j agreeable shade of yellow. There seems
success in his "Monsieur Beaucaire.” I no good reason why the printed pages
His new 'book has the s. me brilliancy, j of books should be confined to tile mo-
whimsicality and speed that character-I notony of black ink on white paper, and
i*ed the former volume. Where Beau- i this innovation by Life Publishing Cnm-
caire treated of a world of powdered pany, which issues "A Woman’s Con-
and peruked dandies. "The Beautiful i fessional,” may lead to other combina-
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stage. The dramatic scene in the
of Graystone. the leader of the “ring,
when Hakon boldly defies the power that
has nearly, cost, him his manhood, would
make a very telling 'climax.
Funk & Waignalls Company announce
for early publication, "Psychic Treatment
of Nervous Disorders,” by Dr. Dubois,
the eminent European professor of neuro
pathology. This book is the production
of a specialist who combines the skill
of the physician witih the experimental
learning of the psychologist.
Funk & Wagnalls Company announce
that .they have had a translation made
of Leroy-Beaulieu’s recent volume 1
i’nlted States in the Twentieth Century,
and that they will publish it in the early
autumn.
Marshall P- Wilder’s new book,, “The
Sunny Side of the Street.” is announced
for publication before July 1st by I unk
& Wagnalls Company. Mr. Wilder’s book
Is made up of anecdotes, observations re
lating to the humorous side of life, in
timate bits of ’personalia about many
well known men, .and reminiscences of
travel and experience in many lands.
The many readers and admirers of
John A. Mitchell’s "Amos Jull.” "Pines
of Lory,” and “The Villa Claudia,” will
be glad to know that another story from
hi s pen will be issued by Life Publishing
Company some time during the cowing
autumn.
This week The Macmillan Company
publish Mr. Arthur Christopher Ben
son’s biography of "Edward Fitzgerald
in the English Men of Letters Series;
"The Outlook to Nature,” by Professor
Liberty H. Bailey; "Outlines of Chris
tian Apologetics,” by Professor Hermann
Schultz, translated by Professor Alfred
Bull Nichols; Volume I, of “The Royal
Academy of Arts.” by Algernon Graves,
the paper-bound edition of Herrick s
"The Real World,” in the Macmillan
Paper Novel Series; and four volumes
of a new series to be known as 1 he
Macmillan India caper Editions of Scott.
Dickens, and Tracker-ay - "\anity
Fair,” “Pendenn.is,” "Oliver Twist,
and “ITne Pickwick Papers.”
Magazine Melange
Anton Chekhov, who died a few months
ago of consumption, at the age of thirty-
four, shared with Maxim Gorky the dis
tinction cf leading the latest movement
of Importance In Russian literature. Like
Gorky. Chekhov was a man Of the peo
ple; but unlike his fellow author, he was
a man of culture, who studied and ap?
plied the art of fiction while Gorky was
making his way by the sheer force of
his rude, untrained genius. For this
reason the Russian public, which is far
from being crude and unsophisticated,
1 as generally accepted the older man as
the literary successor of Turgenev—the
man who has done for the Russian short
story what Turgenev did for the Rus
sian novel. Although the son of a serf,
Chekhov studied medicine. He gradu
ated from the University of Moscow, but
practiced his profession only for a short
time. Even as a student he was con
tributing his short stories to the maga
zines.
In one respiect Chekhov’s work is in
decided contrast to most of the fiction on
which our ideas of Russian literature are
founded. The gloom of the steppes Is
over nearly every story of Turgenev,
Dostoievsky and Gorky; but Chekhov is
often distinctly the humorist. Indeed,
many of his earlier stories incurred crit
icism because of this very quality, and
FUTURE OF AMERICAN NOVEL.
(From The Houston Chronicle.)
American writers and foreign critics
since the days of Washington Irving
have been discussing American books.
The wonder grows that the young giant
nation of which we form part has, in
comparison with its other achievements,
only a pygmy’s strength in literature,
Hawthorne’s is a great name. So is
Poe’s. Emerson, as a philosopher and
essayist, hikes a high rank. 'Sidney La
nier was, while not a great world poet,
a genuine poet of a very high rank.
Contemporary American literature will
bear comparison with contemporary
English literature, or with that of any
European country.
It is true that literature at present
is not at its highest ebb in Europe,
neither is it in America. As we have
had great writers In the past, is it not
fair to assume that we have as good a
chance as Europe to produce great
writers in the future?
Nevertheless, there seems to be a
widespread feeling that there is some
thing the matter with our literature.
The reason of it is that we view the
literature of other countries and litera
ture of the past at a distance. By a
sort of perspective the pillars which are
the masterpeieces seem closer together
when looked at from a great way off.
In every country, even inthe great
ages of literature, there have been many
minor authors of various degrees of
merit and many of no merit at alj. It
is so in this country, as was to be ex
pected.
“Our civilization,” says Mr. James
Lane Allen, the well known American
novelist, in a recent article, "has al
ways thrown to the surface' of life an
amazing wealth of splendid stories.
Our race in the new world. our
mixture and competition or races,
produce great stories. Our wars
and our times of peace, our re
ligion and our politics, our industries
and inventions, our morals and Im-
morals, humanities and inhumanities,
endlessly produce colossal stories. The
whole civilized world today stands with
eyes riveted on the single unfolding story
of the nation itself. - Every needed ex
ternal resource for gYeat national fic
tion lias existed within our civilization
from the beginning. Every needed ex
ternal resource exists at this moment.”
Mr. Allen seems to think that our novel
ists lack the power of the great mas
ters of the past “to look for and find
the greater story.”
The great hooks will be produced in
go.od time. Conditions in this country
are as they always have been and al
ways will be. The beginnings of arts—
very high art, too—were in our earlier
days \\ lien our ideals were newer. The
pressure of a material eiviliaztion of an
.intensity never b ure ^e seen in the world
has prevented thei C f \elopment of art as
it perhaps would have developed if our
country had been smaller as to terri
tory and population. But signs are not
wanting that, as. times goes on and in
dustry and commerce have entirely come
into their own. a place will be found
for artists of all sorts which will give
them full opportuniy and make the
American name honored in the highest
degree.
GOOD STORIES AS PUBLISHED.
William Dean Howells has some en
couraging words to say to young as-
Ipirants for literary honors. “There is
‘ room for a good story of any kind,” he
said recently. “Although an editor gov-
jerns his judgment by what his readers
have like£ before, often rejecting some
thing they would like much better, no
good thing in a story ever remains un
published. Some one will read it. feel
its truth and print it. if it is true.” But
he goes on with a word of advice. "I
do not believe aAy one can write a
novel, with rare exceptions, until he has
lived at least thirty-five years in experi
ence of the world.” Mr. Howells’ opin
ion is based upon the most minute criti
cal endeavors for many years, both as
editor and author; and having published
some sixty-odd widely read books he is
certainly entitled to speak with authori
ty. Mr. Howells’ reputation for amia
bility toward young writers threatens at
times to lead to overwork, as he is
literally flooded with manuscripts, upon
which criticism is desired. However, in
some fashion he manages to find time to
dispose of his mall, and to devote to the
writing of novels and essays, besides fre
quent contributions to the Harper peri
odicals. "Miss Bel lard’s Inspiration,” his
latest novel, just published by the Har
pers, proves that his vision is as keen
and his humor as incisive and delicate
as ever.
THE REALIZED AMBITION.
Seating himself leisurely at his soud
mahogany desk the great author began
sneeringly and uninterestedly to open his
morning mail.
At the top of the pile lay an envelope
on whose flap was the stamped imprint
of one of the oldest and best magazines
in the country.
"What can that imudent cad have to
say to Me?” he queried petulantly.
Sending for his valet he bade the menial
clip the end of the envelope.
(We neglected to state, in the beginning
of this story, that our hero was wearing
his arm in a sling, having been seized the
previous day with an acute attack of
coupon-clippers’ cramp.)
Taking the embossed note paper gingerly
in his left hand the great author scorn
fully read these lines:
“Often, in your obscurer days. I made
the mistake that so many hurried and
overworked editors make, of failing to
recognize in your earlier work the stamp
of genius that should have been unmis
takable. To apologize as profusely as
the case demands, were impossible. How
ever. I can perhaps sufficiently humiliate
myself by offering to you a sincere
tribute In the form of a proposition that
you write for us an article for our Sep
tember number. The length of the article,
the subject of it—we leave all that lo
you. The price we have decided upon is
$4 per word, payable in advance, upun
the receipt by us of your agreement to
the terms of our offer.
•“Hoping to bear from you soon and
favorably to our bumble proposition, we
beg to remain.
"Yours fawningly.
"CEREBRUM SMITH. '
The great author's lips curled in an
expression of the utmost disdain. Calling
his stenographer, he said:
“Take this telegram: ’Former slights
unforgivable and unforgetable. Must de
cline offer. The refusal of vour money
does not necessarily imply lack of value,
but merely that it does not fit in with
our particular needs at this present time.
" 'JIMPSON BLOTTS.’ ”
But just at that moment the rooster in
a neighbor’s back yard crew and the
young man with the perforated meal
| ticket In his pocket, and a deskful of
refusal slips, arose hastily and went to
work on a $3 topical ballad.—S. W. Git-
lilan in Baltimore American.
A HUMORIST’S PECULIAR HABITS.
Th? late Bill Nye replied as follows to a
correspondent who inquired about his
habits of work and life:
"When the weather is such that I can
not exercise in the open air I have a
heavy pair of dumbbells at my lodgings,
which I used for holding the door open.
I also belong to an athletic club and a
pair of Indian clubs with red handles.
I owe much of my robust health to this.
“T do most of my writing in a sitting
posture or in an autograph album. When
1 am not engaged in thought I am em
ployed in recovering from its effects. 1
am very genial and pleasant to be thrown
amongst.
“I dress expensively, but not so as to
attract attention. In tbe morning I wear
morning dress, in the evening I wear
evening dress, and at night I wear night
dress.”
HE CAN STAND IT.
She put the book down with a sigh.
”Whaf is it. darling?” he asked.
"Ah, dearest, I'm so happy!” she re
plied!
"But you had such a sad look in your
eyes just now.”
"I know. I’ve been reading about the
unhappiness that the, men of genius have
to bear. Oh. Alfred. I'm so glad you're
just an ordinary sort of a fellow!”
MYSTERIOUS WONDER WORKER
PERFORMS MIRACLES OF HEALING
Restores Health to Hopeless Invalids Given Up to Die by
Doctors.
STRANGE STORY OF WOMAN
Says Phenomenal Power of Panopathic Profes
sor Brought Her Back to Life* Body
Felt Dead and Lifeless.
HUMAN HEART MADE TO BEAT AGAIN
Hundreds Healed by This Man Who Has Dis
carded Useless Drugs and Medicines Since
He Has Made Wonderful Discovery
of Life’s Law.
NO DISEASE HE MAY NOT CURE
Yet He Offers Services Free of Charge to All Who Are
Sick and Afflicted. Cures Them in Their Own
Homes. Believes It His Duty to God and
Man to Help All Who Stand in Need.
U is only in his later work that the Rus
sians recognized the seriousness and the
■painstaking observation of life whicn
they hold essentia] in fiction.
At iris death Chekhov left a large num-
bre of short tales (some of which have
not yet appeared in print), a few plays
cf notably fine quality, and a sing-.e
novel. “The Duel,” which Is published
for tbe first time in English in the pres
ent issue of "Tales.” Undoubtedly this
story is one of the most important in
modern Russian literature, and it offers
a compendium of the author's salient
characteristics. Serious as is its study
of life and manners, it is lightened by
many touches of ‘the dry, cynical humor
of which Chekhov was a master.
The Associated Press reports, published
throughout the land, of President Mc
Kinley’s assassination, last days and
death, were the wonder and admiration of
every reader. The Associated Press
gave to the world, at the cost of $30,000
and its correspondent’s health, the first
adequate account of the Martinque dis
aster. Word of the death of Pope Leo
XIII, in spite of many barriers, reached
New York in just nine minutes, and San
Francisco in just eleven minutes, after
the actual event. How such results are
accomplished, something of the difficul
ties to ‘be overcome, a hint of what a
correspondent's life must be, are some
of t;he points covered by Melville E.
Stone in his article in the July Century
on "The Associated Press" and its meth
ods of operation. Not the least inter
esting feature of the story to most read
ers this month will he Mr. Stone’s ac
count of how national conventions are
reported, and how campaign and elec
tion news is gathered and disseminated
THE DECLINE OF ORATORY.
(From The Chicago Tribune.)
Missouri has been a mother of orators.
Seventy years ago her great statesman,
Thomas H. Benton, "Old Bullion,” rank
ed among the first orators of a senate
which included Webster and Clay. It
later days Missouri produced James S
Green, who, in point of eloquence, was
perhaps equal to any public man of tna
civil war period and who might have
become one of the nation’s leading states
men but for a fatal appetite for drink
George Graham Vest, who represented
the state in the senate for twenty-four
years, was one of the most eloquent
speakers in public life.
But in Misspuri, as in other states less
famed for tie qfratory of their statesmen
and the number of their spellbinders, the
art of oratory is being neglected bv the
present generation. An unusual prize of
a gold medal and S40 cash is offered the
student at the state university who shall
deliver the best oration during the com
mencement! season. The prize used to be
eagerly competed for by numbers of bud
ding Ciceros and Burkes. Interest In the
contest 'has .gradually declined, until this
year not a candidate for it appeared.
The decadence of college oratory is
doubtless due to the decadence of oratory
in public life. When Webster and Hayne
and Clay and Calhoun, and when, a.t a
later period. Seward and Benjamin, aryl
Lincoln and Douglas, were carrying on
their great oratorical duels in and out
of congress, there was no difficulty in
getting the young men to spout. They
could not be kept from spouting. Every
cross roads had its debating society, every
college its juvenile Websters and Clays.
The great statesmen then occupied the
public eye almost to the exclusion of all
others; and the chief requisite to political
success was eloquence. Cons^uently,
mdst ambitious young men aspired to be
ora tors.
Statesmen no longer monopolize public
attention. They have to divide it with
captains of industry. Oratory is no long
er the chief qualification for political
success. The politician stands as good
or a better show if be is an expert wire
puller, or if, as a speaker, he does not
indulge in rhetorical or elocutionary
flourishes, but "only talks right on” in
a straightforward, businesslike manner.
It is a natural consequence that the
number of ambitious young men who
cultivate the art of “spellbinding” should
decrease.
As to the change that "nas taken place
in the style of American public speaking,
it is doubtless rue largely to tlje altered
character of the questions which receive
most popular attention. The great pub
lic issues, until a quarter Of a century
ago, were usually of a political or moral
nature. Consideration of these issues
engaged the passions of the people, and
oratory being partially an appeal to the
passions, there naturally was a great
deal of it. The paramount questions of
today are industrial and economical.
They appeal to the people’s heads rather
than to their hearts, and there is de
manded for their settlement not declatm-
ers. But statesmen who. while they may
know little of the rules of elocution, know
much about business methods and eco
nomical principles. — i
New York. June 23.—(Special Correspon
dence.*—The seeming miracles of healing
performed by that famous scientist anti
panopath of this city. Dr. Wallace Had
ley. his startling cures of men and wo
men given up to die by doctors, have
been so wonderful in both method and
results that they have awakened uni
versal praise, astonishment and mystery
among professional men and the general
public alike.
In the face of doctors' verdicts and
apparent impossibilities this man has
taken invalids pronounced hopelessly in
curable and restored them to life and
health when all other means had failed.
Considerable curiosity has been aroused
by these phenomenal cures, both because
they are so wonderful in themselves and
also that this worker of wonders pro
claims the fact that he has discorded the
useless drugs and medicines usually pre
scribed by physicians. In partial explana
tion he states that he has dis
covered the greatness of life laws,
that apparently has been over
looked hy previous searchers after the
secrets of nature. And it is evident be
yond doubt that this discovery gives him
a power over disease and death not pos
sessed by ordinary mortals. So certain is
he of his ability that he claims and of
fers to prove that there is no disease tie
may not cure. Astounding as that asser
tion appears to be, there is plenty >f
evidence to support it. In one case, if not
In more, by means of the mysterious pow
er he possesses, he is stated to have
made the human heart beat again, reviv
ing the flickering spark of life when all
hut extinguished. and curing diseases
that baffled the skill of the best doctors
and specialists. He appears to have com
plete control and mastery over the hydra-
headed monster. Disease, under whatever
form or name it may be known.
Yet. strange as it may seem in this day
and age. with all this supreme power
and command over the ills that human
flesh is heir to. he does not " sp his dis
covery to fill his own pockets at the ex
pense of the thousands of suffering men
and women who appeal to him for the aid
he gives so gladly and so freely, as he
might so easily do. saying during a recent
Interview. ”1 believe it is my duty to
God and man to help all who stand in
need without regard to any reward. I
believe this power was given to me that
I might he ah instrument to cure the sick
arid afflicted. This being my earnest be
lief. I Teel that I must give freely of
my services to all who are ill. T do not
want to pose as a philanthropist, but I
have my own ideas us to the best use to
make of the money I have, and I know
of no better way to spend it than to make
life easier for those who are jn the grasp
of pain and disease. I have made both
tny money and my discovery unaided, and
if I choose to use both in laboring Tor
the health of mankind. I am sure that it
is nobody's business how or why I do it.
True, there Is almost no limit ,n the
money I could make if I chose to keep
this wonderful secret to myself, as you
can readily understand, hut I feel that it
belongs to humanity as much as It does
to me. What right have I to grow
wealth!' out oT my feTIow-men’s miseries?
Just think of what it means when T am
able to say that there is no disease I
may not cure. Just think of what a mes
sage of hope and salvation that is to
hundreds and thousands of invalids
throughout the length and breadth of the
land who have given up hope of ever
being well again.
“I do not care what doctors may shy;
I do not care what the disease is called;
I am jus<t as ready .to make the deaf
hear, the lan^e walk, to cure consump
tion. cancer, tumors, paralysis, locomo
tor ataxia, Bristht's disease, organic
weakness, any liquor or drug habit, or
any ore of the so-called incurable dis
eases. as I am to cure stomach trouble,
blood disorders, rheumatism, catarrh, or
any other ill that Ihuman flesh is heir
to. I do not care or want to know how
mucth or how little money a man has,
.but only that he has been attacked by
disease is any one of its many forms.
No matter what it mny cost me. I mean
to go on curing any one who asks me of
any disease they may have, just as long
as I am willing and able. When I have
this power to save life and restore health.
I could not let mep and women, human
beings like myself, go on suffering ana
dying for the want of that which I have
to give. I know what I can do, because
my power has been tested in thousands
of cases.
"One ease, a ’miraculous ease,’ as the
patient himself called it. was that of a
Mr. Harry Williams, of Traverse City,
Mich. He had a .terrible disease that
threatened to rot hrs bones, make his
teeth and hair fall out, destroy his sight,
taste, small and hearing, and cover lus
body with ulcerous sores; a disease that
makes a man a living corpse, like lepro
sy. He also failed to get ihielp from his
home doctors, and was in such misery ot
mind and body that he looked upon
suicide as his only chance of escaping a
more frightful death, was actually think
ing of killing himself when, luckily for
him, his case was brought to my atten
tion. I saved 'his life. I cured him.
My treatment drove the poison out ot
his body, cleansed his blood of the very
root of the disease and restored the man
to perfect health. And another was
that of Mr. B. R. Hall, of Snowville. Va.
His physicians pronounced him beyond
medical aid, and wanted to saw an open
ing through this skull as a last chance.
Pieces of bone as big as my finger and
half an Inch long came out from above
his eye. His agony was terrible. He.
had abandoned all hope and thought
nothing but the grave awaited him. All
lie expected was to have mis last dying
hours made as comfortable as possible,
but I saved his life and cured him com
pletely.
"Sometimes I myself would be inclined
to doubt tie reports that come from
trty patients’ if ] did not know 'the facts
in each case. It is not long asm that 1
received a letter from one of them, a
Mrs. J. G. Whitfield, of Norfolk, Va., in
which she says; ‘I was so near cross
ing the Great Valley that my body felt
dead and lifeless, but you made my
heart beat again and my blood flow
through my veins once more. I was very
despondent when you came to any res
cue. My stomach, liver and kidneys
were in such a bad state I was afraid
I couldn't ever be cured, and in addition
I was afflicted with Varicose Veins and
Ulcers, that I thought I could not be
cured. I was in despair when I wrote
to you feeling than it was a chance for
life and health. I suffered untold mis
ery, but now I can shout for joy over niy
restoration to life and health. 1 don't
feel like the same person. I do feel so
thankful to you. May God ever biess
you.’ These are only random examples,
but you see that they prove my power to
cure even in the face of what seems cer
tain death. But these and the other so-
called miracles that I am credited with
performing are not miracles in the same
way as those described in the Bible. They
seem just as wonderful to the witnesses
and to the men and women whose live?
are saved and health restored, but they
are in truth simply scientific phenomena
that demonstrate and prove the power
given my by the discovery I have made of
iife’s law, the secret of what creates and
maintains life, and overcomes disease
and death.”
"But how do you find time to visit
patients all over the country and yet
treat so many thousands?”
"While it is true that I have patients
in every State in the Union, in Canada.
Mexico and foreign countries, I do not
have to visit them in order to cure tlhem.
One of the peculiarities of my power
is that I can and do cure them in their
own homes just as easily and just as
surely as if I went to them or they came
to me.”
"Then how—”
"All that any one who is ill in any
way and wants to be cured has to do is to
write to me. addressing Wm. Wallace
Hadley. M.D., office 234 M. No. 2255
Broadway, New York, telling, me tee
name of the disease they suiter from
most, their principal symptoms, age and
sex. and I will send them a course of
•home treatment absolutely free of
charge. A letter does just as much good
as a personal visit.”
"Surely you do not mean th^t any one
who is sick can write to you and be
cored, without paying you any money?”
"But I do mean just that. Both my
services and the treatment I send are en
tirely free to any one who needs treat
ment. And I am especially anxious to
cure those who think or have been told
that their case is incurable, that there
is no hope for them to regain their lost
health and strength. If they will write
to me there is not only hope, but an al
most absolute certainty, that they need
t>e sick no longer.”
A FAT WOMAN’S DISCOVERY.
Takes Off 50 Pounds in a Few Months
Without Discomfort.
Mrs. Fannie H. La Tour, of 150 Nas
sau street, New York city, in her ef
forts to reduce her weight of 215
pounds, has discovered a new method
of treatment which removes superflous
fat in any case without dieting, exer
cise or any ill effect upon the health.
She is willing to give personal atten
tion to ail correspondents who suffer
from obesity, and can modify the treat
ment according to the condition of
each applicant if a few simple ques
tions which she submits are answered.
The enormous number of applications
she receives indicates the universal in
terest in her unique achievement.
THIRTY-SEVEN TREES ««T.T. FOR
THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS
(From The Detroit Free Press.)
Union City, Mich.—The great increase
in the value of natural timber in this,
as well as in other portions of the state,
was exemplified In a very forcible man
ner here Saturday, when Curtis Morrill ,
sold thirty-seven fine black walnut trees
on his farm southeast o fthis city for
the sum of *3,000 cash. Mr. Morrill has
had many flattering offers for the timber
during the past ten years, but as he is
in affluent circumstances, he thought the
money well invested in the natural grow
ing trees.
It almost makes him weep, however,
when he recollects how, when a young
man, he felled, logged and bunted up sev
eral thousand similar trees on the same
farm hal fa centur ago to prepare the
land for cultivation. Since his recent
sale he has been doing considerable figur
ing and now estimates that the original
black walnut timber on the farm, would,
if left growing until this day, have been
worth no less than $75,000.
S’
CELERY STUFFING.
(From The Chicago Record-Herald.)
Chop one small Ttead of celery, one large
onion, three cups of dry bread crumbs
and one tablespoon of parsley. Season
with one teaspoon of salt, one-half tea
spoon of white pepper, three shakes of
cayenne, one egg well beaten and butter
the slxe of an egg. Have all fine and
smooth. Stuff the fowl, and steam two
hours or more until tender.