Show AUTHOR OF CURFEW COL ALEXANDER HOGELAND A LOVER OF THE CHILDREN BUT vin if they A ar sept kept oft off tha streets at a night they will grow up tobe to be better men bien and nl women where the custom U BerlT Cd alexander hogeland president of the boys and girls giris national home and employment association has returned to his L home in lincoln neb after a long tour of the cities of the south the colonel is the au of celebrated curfew I 1 law aar r the now which he says is bound to grow in popular favor in the towns in which it is enforced in nebraska it is in operation in lincoln omaha south omaha york north platte and in many ny of the smaller towns of the state des moines sioux city st louls louis kansas city and st joseph mo axe are seriously considering its adoption speaking of the law cot hogeland said curfew is not an original name with me I 1 am simply giving it a new interpretation curfew rang in france and spain a thousand years ago william the conqueror caused it to be rung in england it was a signal tor for putting out all lights to prevent plots against the government and to keep fire tor for kindling next day the association which I 1 represent has done much to adapt the curfew to modern uses by keeping boys off the streets after dark the association was organized in Louls louisville twenty four years ago chiefly tor for the benefit of newsboys twelve years ago I 1 bem began touring the country and up to the present I 1 have visited cities have addressed fully colleges and public schools and spoken in churches to say nothing of factories for twenty years col hogeland has bas devoted his life to reform work among youth the crowning work of his life Is s the curfew law which is designed to keep boys off the streets after 8 at night since its enforcement in lincoln depredations by boys have become almost unknown the police speak well veil of the law and hogeland believes it will spread to all the principal clytiea LITERARY SUCCESS J x JIL earxie weyman and lan 11 of late years there have been may apparently sudden and phenomenal successes in the arena of authorship none of which probably has been either quite so BO sudden or so phenomenal as it appeared says chambers journal the list includes mr J M barrie mr rudyard kipling mr stanley J weyman and lan ism klaren the cue case of mr barrio barrie is well known auld licht lacht idyles idylls and A window in thrums with which he achieved success were by no means beam the arthars ct hors first ventures into literature era ara ture it came out afterward that there had bad been at least one previous volume from his pen with the ominous title of better dead and for long lone after the tame tam of A window in thrums had been assured a religious weekly kept publishing reprints of artl articles by the author which had appeared without attracting notice years before mr rudyard kipling too seemed to spring suddenly into fame with the production of soldiers three and some indian poems and articles in the magai lines but bat it transpired upon inquiry and better acquaintance that his art had been perfected during years of residence in the east by much story writing lei tho the anglo indian journals again mr stanley 3 weyman seemed 0 jo o leap into sudden renown the other day ath with the publication tiou ef cf A gentleman of france and under the bed I 1 bobe but the reader who 1 looks at the illustrated Magaz magazine inq tor Deoca aberi 1883 will M find proof that thai quite aik tea yas before that ahat apparently i fortune aad fame 04 ANN mr was perfecting hi art and shouldering bi his way to recognition among the common crowd of story tell ers As for un maclaren or not his pen nas long lone been practiced in the an of deliberate tory telling it has for half IL lifetime as is well known had bad constant practice in moving the emotions of men in IL a kindred and hardly less literary way FISHING IN mississippi john joba allen alien would like to xnia aste president cleveland CIeT eland that prince of storytellers story tellers and 1 yarn spinners private john allen alien of tupelo miss who w ho Is the tunny funny nan man 1 of congress and the successor in that line of the th e late sunset Sun sett cox and the relegated proctor knott often strolls in to pass away an hours time says the arkansas democrat while president cleveland was away on a recreation trip recently private john dropped around to the hotel one evening and after some other conversation c on the subject turned to the presidents liking tor for rod and gun then allen alien told this during one of those long and friendly conversations which the president and I 1 so often held I 1 invited him to mississippi sis sippi to fish there is nothing pleas anter or easier than the way we follow izaak walton in my state we hire a band of colored gentlemen and they carry a large lame jug of whisky to I 1 a cool shady nook by the river and we follow them we idt lt down in the cool shady nook and watch the jug while the colored gentlemen cut a cord or two of brush and bushes these a are tor lor a 2 seine when we are ready to begin fishing each aach of the colored gentlemen takes a bunch of the brush bruah in either hand and thus armed they throw a line of battle out into the bayou or river or wherever we chance to be fishing we sit on the bank and tell them where to go when all is ready the line of battle with the brush under water making a vey vety capital seine swings 1 4 1 COU round toward the snore in such a manner as to comb about an acre of water we get every fish that Is tool fool enough to be b in that acre we get alligators mud pouts snapping turtles and all sorts borta of valuable fish I 1 would like very much to have the president come down and enjoy the sport for himself so far however he has not been able to set a time oen gen LOngs longstreet trePt a successful author gen longstreet has been living very quietly in gainesville his old georgia home since he returned from philadelphia where he went to attend the dubu pubu GEN longstreet r cation of his war memoirs his ella book has had bad a good popular success the first edition being exhausted almost as soon as it left the press and it has evoked enough comment favorable and antagonistic to keep the generals gene ralls pen imm j b busy gift answers ansbe ra HO he receives re ce IV es many letters from old confederate soldiers and is always prompt with a courteous reply the chief signs of age in gen longstreet Longs reet WO are in his bent boal shoulders d en even I 1 lore than in jag hia whitened hair he ele is on YM very companionable terms term with his gainesville neighbors neigh boM and zees sees a swat great deal of them |