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OUR WAVERLY LETTER.
AS , tons ...
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have bee*' 111 'de through the
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regard to the whereabouts of
this Correspondent ’ l take
great . piedSUi ]..• e 111 saying • tliat I * ,
• I still live,” am in the en
J ioyment J of good health and
. this | . letter .
propose Itl to
the readers of your enterpris
; n(y imirnal J 0 c i few y H-orna Items frnm 11 Om
this , V portion . of the moral vine
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A . warehouse, , . .
and platform W I’tlUg room
has at last been
erected here, ? much 10 the de
,. light u the .
OI residents , <>t this
section. The store formerly J
occupied • j i here , by Norman , T
Mr.
Middleton, has been bought by
a Mr. Harris from Scriven
s
county, who has opened it
with a lar^e, assorted stock
of merchandise. 1 hear that
Mr. Harris has purchased the
lot on which the store stands
from Dr. B. Atkinson, with
the intention of putting up a
suitable residence.
Mr. Morton, who is in the
■employ of Messrs. Kessler and
Myers of Spring Bluff, h •IS
also taken up his residence
here Mr Daniel E.. L ittle
field is building a nent cot
tage near his mother’s old
residence, it is approachi g
completion very rapidly, and
will soo i be in a condition to
be occupied by the family.
Mess Kessler and M)ers of
Bulloch county, have taken
charge of the turpentine farm
formerly carried on by the
■Georgia Turpentine Company.
Mr. Kessler, who has taken
up his residence at Spring
Bluff, is a very pleasant gen
tleman. a thorough, ness
rnan, and has nin^ ji*
very popular ine-sfl
have bus
and marrying - her, so, in a lesser de
gree, the chances are against a man
finding exactly the occupation that is
fitted for him. The round pegs are
eternally getting into the square holes.
When a square peg gets into a square
hole and fits » we sa y in our blindness
that the peg's a genius.
Human perversity helps the mathe
matacal tdiance prevent the pegs
getting into the right places. The sue
cess f u i tragedian invariably thinks
that his forte is low comedy, and the
r cn( l' vne d f“ edi * n ima ” iues if
he but had u the chance he could play
Hamlet.
-Frederick Trigg wanted to be a sue
cessful novelist, a vocation for which
he was utterly unsuited. W 7 riting was
his forte, but not the writing of novels,
lie had the critical faculty strongly de
veloped, and had a style of his own
which ultimately led him, as every one
knows, into the very front rank of Eng
lish crit f s ', But ^ circumstances,
seemingly adverse at the time, and the
result of the meanest treachery, which
guided the square Trigg’s footsteps to
ward the squared hole, are not so well
known.
Alfred Denton, on the other hand,
was a born novelist, yet all bis hopes
were centered into becoming a great
editor—a position for which he was
conspicuously unfitted.
When young Trigg met young Den
ton by chance at a semi-literary club to
which both belonged, Trigg congrat
ulated himself. Denton at that time
was the inefficient sub-editor of a well
known magazine, and Trigg, whose
MSS. were invariably rejected, was
convinced that the magazine editors of
London formed a sort of close corpora
tion, whose chief object in life was to
keep the outsider eternally outside.
Trigg felt certain that if one of liis
stories but got a chance, it would be
sure to succeed, and he felt that his
ripening friendship with Denton would,
when the proper time came, give him
his chance.
There is no doubt but Denton intui
tively disliked Trigg from the begin
ning. This, of course, he had a perfect
right to do, but it is questionable if he
was justified in pretending a friend
ship he did not feel, and in leading the
other on to confide his woes and his
MSS. to him. Perhaps the dislike arose
from the unfortunate habit Trigg had
of reading selections from his stories to
anyone who would listen, and there is
no doubt that in those days Dentdn got
more than his share.
Any man has a right to resent this
sort of thing, but he should resist it
openly and boldly, and not revenge
himself in a sneaky manner.
Denton praised the MSS. highly, took
them to the magazine office readily,
and keot them for a long time. Then
cv were returned to the unfortunate
Ike ith a note (saying tliat the edi
of thc/warmest eommenda
;
has-been for The past ten years.”
“Yon surprise me,” said Trigg. “Of
course until quite recenty I have known
nothing of the inner life of literary
London, and since joining the staff of
the Acadaneum I have been top busy
to pay attention to it. Have you, then,
no power on the magazine with which
your name is connected?”
“Oh, I have the power if I choose to
exercise it; but I have very little taste
for the drudgery of editing, and 1 leave
it entirely in the-hands of my subor
di ™‘f •”
YVliat „ said ., „ Ingg, . ...
you say, m
me more than you can be aware
of. I would like, if you do not mind,
to show you some day a number of let
ters I have had from the office cf your
“I should be pleased to see them,”
answered the other, and they made an
appointment to meet at the club of the
The old man was very much aston
ished when he saw the letters.
“These alleged extracts from notes
of mine are not ’fn niy writing. They
were never written by me. If Denton
wished to reject your MSS. he should at
least have had the honesty to take the
responsibility upon himself.”
The next week Trigg received a note
from the editor of the magazine in
question. It was to the following ef
Wet:
“If you think it worth an item in
your usual column of literary notes
you have my authority for making the
announcement that Alfred Denton, for
many years subeditor of the maga
zinc, is no longer connected with that
periodical.”
Trigg chuckled as he read this let
ter,
“Denton,” he said to himself, “the
treacherous scoundrel, will find out
tio\v that it is easier to lose a situation
like that than to get- another.” And he
added a cutting lire to the item he
wrote about his former friend, which,
without being libelous, indicated that
Denton’s leaving of’ the magazine was
practically a dismissal in disgrace.
Denton soon realized that rumors
were abroad about him, and his
endeavors to get a fresh footing
in the line that led to ultimate edit
orship were discouraging failures. It
was under these circumstances that he
wrote his first book and had it pub
lished under a nom de plume.
It galled Trigg for many a day after
to know that what he wrote about this
book was upon the whole favorable,
indeed exceedingly favorable for ingg,
who at cnee recognized the merit of
the lMst
^y ^ r 'kS' . aad reached a
commanding position upon his paper,
nnd what wrote f< r its columns was
printed as he wrote it, with no blue
pencil supervision.
Denton, pleased with the success of
his first book, allowed it to be an-
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