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Show I. f 5 HE IS FAMOUS AS A POET Nixon Waterman, Writer of Beautiful SoQgs The poetic writings of Nixon WatPr- man have already stamped him as one of the great poets of the closing cenIs yet a compara',ve' young tury. man, and therefore has much of tu future before him. If this may be gauged by laurels already won his place In history may confidently be stated as already fixed Mr Waterman was born in Kendall County, Illinois, a little more than thirty years ego, and when quite youug moved with his parents to Crestou, Iowa Here, while working in the business department of a country daily his . talent Jor versifying was .first discus-- , ered, even to himself The paper on which he was employed beiaine engaged in a controversy with Its competitor, which controversy was carried dnto the Tealm of dogLy the-let- ter gerel. An answer along the new line i able to open up to young and aspiring, yet often, disappointed writers, Is to show them a' large stock of those kindly worded printed notes which editors enclose with msauarripLa that In the are "returned with thanks earlier years of his career, so he honestly admits, he- received many more of these notes than he did of checks, and he now cherishes them as happy proof of the fact that the receipt of such things need not be accepted as conclusive evidence that success will not come later. A number of years ago, after he had created omehpt 9f a demand for his contributions, he accepted a position with a m igazlne, and a stipulation of his contract was that he should not contribute to other publications. On receiving a number of requests for articles from editors of several maga- - decll nation sent by editors. to disappointed contributors but served to make an article from his pen still more desirable. 1q Typography, Though 300 Tuan Old. Is LmwIIuL Perhaps the only copy of the Boer blhle In the country la In the possession of Peter M. Campbell of Denver. The bible Is In the Dutch language, and was published in the Netherlands, as la announced In the preface, lp 1619. Mr. Campbell, who is the son of Sir Duncan Campbell of Scotland, came into possession of the volume some eighteen years ago, at the time of the first Boer war. He was acting as a newspaper correspondent at the time and remained In the Transvaal Ova years. During his residence there he bought the book from a minister! the gospel, named Hoxmeyre, who gave the following account of Its history: "The book was for a long period of years In the Jubert or Joubert fam- ily, of which the noted Gen. Joubert was a noted member. It was brought to Cape Town by the first band of Dutch emigrants and was the second book ever taken to South Africa. The book itself, aside from Its history, is Interesting as a specimen of bookmaking. It is a huge volume, about twelve inches wide, eighteen inches long, and seven Inches thick, and weighs thirty pounds or more. It is bound in calf, and the backs are boards half an Inch thick and beveled at the edges. The corners are bound with heavy brass pieces in front and at the back. It Is held closed by two massive brass clasps. In typography the volume, though nearly 300 years old, la excellent. There are ornamental letters at the beginning of each book and ornate tall pieces. One of the queer customs of former times that of representing biblical characters clad in the fashion olthe time the book was printed la shown in several striking Instances. In the Illumined letter at the beginning of Genesis, Adam and Eve are represented surrounded by animals lions, elephants, chickens and ducks. Adam is wearing a long mustache and Vandyke beard, such were in fashion among courtiers of the seventeenth century. A tree In the same picture Is represented with a off. Boston large branch sawed SOME - NIXON WATERMAN. of attack was Imperative. Without knowing Jils power, for at that time he had never written a verse Waterman undertook the reply. Hla first effort proved a success, and gave him a local reputation that subsequent writing has carried into nearly every household of this country. Most of hla t, life haa been spent in the where he has passed through all the amexperiences and adventures of an man. bitious newspaper It has been well known to his most intimate friends for some tlm that Mr. Waterman has in contemplation and perhaps well under construction, a more serious work than haa yet been published from his pen. With more relief from the grind of every-da- y work, and with thoroughly congenial surroundings such as his present position affords the completion of this or some other solid piece may be exnever pected. But if this promise Is realized, the name of Nixon Waterman will live as the writer of beautiful songs songs that touch the heart, eongs that appeal to. our best sentiments, songs that the whole people allove, songs that will live. He haa ready published two distinct volumes of hla poems, the latest entitled A Book of Verses, being Just from the press. Mr. Watermans high regard for absolute veracity haa neyer been seriously questioned, yet it la asserted by those who know him best that he will, appear to warwhen circumstances rant it. stretch the truth to a severe limit in order that he may put a pleasant face on the otherwise sorry features of the worlds happenings. None of the vlrlssltudes of. fortune and did ever a writer of verse attain success without meeting many of them? are ever carried into hla boiae life. Over It the doorway of his pleasant home All care abanmight be truly written This optimdon ye who enter here. istic trend is shown in many of his homelier Jingles, designed for the members of his household rather than for the eyes of the world, auch aa the following lines, which one permitted to fiance through his librarywlll find written la a copy of Grimms Fairy mid-wes- xlnes it occurred to Mr. Waterman that It was then an excellent time for the worm to turn. And so a score of requests for manuscripts were answered by sending printed slips worded as follows: Your kind letter of Inquiry asking If it will be convenient for me to contribute the article requested, for your publication, la at hand. In thanking you for the same I must express my regret that I am unable to avail myself of your offer, at tbla time, as shall be occupied for several months in preparing manuscripts already promised. In declining to furnish the contribu tlon you request, I trust the motivea prompting my action will ot be misNo reflection, whatever, construed. upon the merit or character of your My publication is Intended. of your offer may result from one or more of many causes, none of which relates to the desirability of your publication as a means of placing my work before the public. A publisher, on having a request for manuscript rejected, should not Infer, necessarily that his offer lacks the qualities that would Insure its acceptance by other writers of creditable standing. A request for manuscript which one writer may refuse another may gladly consider. Again thanking you for your pleasant communication, I am, very sincerely, Nixon Waterman." This very clever paraphrase of the wording employed in the usual note of unfl1, COLLEGIAN, champion Intercollegiate strong man. Charles Chadwick, the football player, was Yales first claimant, and then Verrlll followed. Cajver has astonished everyone by the total of LT55.8 kilograms. Mr. Carver Is barely 21 ia years old. He is 6 feet height The tests have been made In Yales gymnasium during the paet week and are In accord with the method of measurement adopted by the AssociaGymnastic Intercollegiate tion, which does not include any of Verrllla the Western universities. record was 1,676 kilos, and Harvard has a man named Cochems with n record of 1,761.4 kilos. But Yale T that Mr. Carver ia still growing and ia now undoubtedly the strongest college man. Th method by which Mr. this marvelous Carver developed He haa nevar of la Interest. strength Indulged in any violent exercise aave a little football before coming to colFor the first two years after lege. entering the university he devoted an hour or so each day to light exercise dumbells. For the with past two years he has used twelve-poun- d chest weights and a dumbbell tor strengthening hla legs and back. This exercise, with careful habits, has resulted In producing a man who. Dr. J. W. Seaver, director of the Yale gymnasium, says surpasses any be has ever seen. Chicago Inter Ocean. six-pou- 190-pou- Fertilising tits Desert. No fewer than 12,000,000 acres ef land have been made fruitful in the Sahara desert, aa enterprise representing perhaps the most remarkable example of Irrigation hy means of artesian wells which can anywhere be . found. The popularity will soon perish that la paid for In principle. Millionaire Fire Chief 'The chief of the Larchmont (N. Y.) fire department, just elected, is May- - tendance at (Ires bis hobby, says Les- lies Weekly. He haa taken a partic- ular course of instruction In- - the work of the fire department. Including the scaling of bare' walls, the running of ladders to housetops and ao on. It la aaid that be haa attended 200 fires In New York city during the past year. Hla father, Theodor Bronon,made Tales:" a fortune in Wall street, whkh May-Lewhich These 'Fairy Tales, by Grimm, inherited. - All the money that wife. dear now I give to thee, new chief has earned was $1, rethe tales Cant match the grimmer fairy ceived fpr Jury duty, and he haa It Ive told thee during life. framed and hung up in his spacious make to thy Through all the year In this city,. He was the gratuhome' & path a pleasant one Ive tried, itous Instructor of the Larchmont would truth found the And where I've firs department for some time and lied. be too harsh and rough ! himself purchased the - "Affectionately, for hla men. They are delighted with - Thq Lyrist" his promotion to the position of chief It goes wlthoif. saying that Mr. Waof their volunteer fire brigade. Mr. terman has not attained hia present Bronson Is a member of the New York without field 1 the literary position AtUetlc club, la prominent In yachting Aa he hlm-e- more or. less of a battle. MATHEW BRONSON, of circles, sad la veil educated, having made up been haa life hla says n a tha of brw millionaire, greatspent some years- - at the famous UniBronson, society Ona reverses. weraes and who makes at been h has and a man versity of Heidelberg, German. gentleman, est sources of . fi iU Lv new,-uniform- s ' TI InaptrajUon , not been sacrihaa pesrance comficed to It la speed. fortable and steady funning, and haa carried Its fearless owner to the front mainly by Its ability to stand strains without succumbing. One of the most powerful racing avaay within the body of the projectile, vehicles which baa yet made its apthe only thing in evidence being the pearance In the French automobile The seat of the contests la the Vallee, an illustration necessary gearing. operator may be so arranged as to permit of hla assuming such a position as will keep almost his entire body well within the "bowels of the projectile, thus still further reducing the wind resistlong-continu- ed Jbe speed contests for the automo-h- li blue ribbon, a huh will take place over th French roads about Paris this auaUDer, has set the motor-racin- g world by the ears, the foreign enthusiast! especially going to apparently Mpejwe in their efforts to secure what u likely to prove a wln-nl- a machine. In an article upon this sport Of millionaires," shlch recently appeared In The Automobile Maga-alathe statement is made that speed In SB automobile depends not alone upoa th development of great horse powar, as asserted by some, nor upon ance. f the driving wheels, as asthe Another vehicle, serted by others (who point to the the primary consdrivers on the modern hu$e passenger ideration-in locomotive In support' of their stateof ment), but upon a combination of five was speed, factors, the absence of any one of which is that of Count which In the make-u- p of a vehicle deGhssseloup signed primarily for speed might rewas promits defeat in In a sult mentioned aa one of the contest These five conditions are Ur inently next In representatives tha hone power of the motor; (2) the French races and International cumber of revolutions made by the summer's been the adversary of M. motor; (3) the weight of a vehicle; haa In contests In the many of construction Jenatsy (5) gearing; (4) the moving parts, as well as of the en- years past. In this machine the tire carriage, In order to reduce fric- effort to minimize wind resistance tion and wind resistance as much as has not been carried to the lengths that It has In the "projectile, probpossible. The apparently interminable search ably owing to unwilling for the bappy medium, where great neaa to decrease the size of the space devoted to the batteries and motor. power will not necessitate correspondThe motor, la a very pbwerful one and, great perhaps, fatally ingly weight and atze, combined with the and despite the fact of Its being heavefforts to reduce wind resistance to a ier, the vehicle la said to be the equal minimum, have re- Charles Andrew Carver, of Chicago, Is a ' 'Wonder. Charles- - Andrew Carver, a Chicago student at--, Yale, is put forward as the V "A10BES. G The Automobile Age Seems to Be in Full Blast. Globe. STRONGEST- WIND-SPLITTIN- e, Lou-bat.w- DE PAIRAS RACE. long-distan- of which la herewith given. The wind shield feature is quite prominent,.! this racing machine, and, while almost the operators completely covering tapers to a point in front. Tbe company which builds this vehicle, In order to lighten it as much aa possible consistent with the requisite strength to carry the weight of tbe motors de' signed to develop the twenty-fou- r horse-powof which la i capable, baa made extensive use in the body o f partlnium, an alloy of aluminum and tungsten, whose specific gravity ia almost Identical with that of aluminum alone, but .whose strength la very much greater. While possessing horse -buildIn sulted the power exceeding the majority of racing ol some very ing machines, the Vallee haa aa yet curious examples been unsuccessful In winning races, a automobiles, of which may be psrtly attributable to many of which are the facts that It la driven by a single aljnost Absolutely belt and possesses no speed chaags useless except for gear detects which will be remedied,, the purpose for before its next appearance in a racsi which they were Ia this connection It may be stated designed high that It Is tbs consensus of oplniod they speed and among those devoted to tbla sport of cannot consistentmillionaires that vehicles developing ly be classed under a maximum of slxtien-hor- s power the head of pleasare better adapted te fast work on tbs ure vehicles. road than are those possessing greater or lesa power. Probably the most flagrant exA German racing vehicle, the .Aral ' PROJECTILE." M. JENATZY'S ' RACING bf lbS klha'turVeJ btfTdt TM famous ample of thli sacof rifice beauty shops at Cannatadt, and specially de-- lines to the demon of speed Is the In every way of M. Jenatxy's machine. signed to bring the automobile blue Still another peculiar looking ve- ribbon to Germany, la that of Her! racing "projectile; of M. Jenatay hicle devoted solely to fast work la Jelltnck, of Vienna, who races undei ( holder--ef thejsorlda automobile kilometer record), an electric ma- that of M. De Palva shown herewith. the nom de plume of Mercedes, and In front and a glass who won the Tourists de Nice race In chine constructed ns the result of "Windplows a wager that he cquld design and shield set an an angle, behind which 1899. This racing machines motor la also capable of de-- " build , sex- - tlectromobile capable of the operator may comfortably observe covering 106 kilometers within an the load before him, are two features veloplng.twentyfastborse power.esd When It la remembered tbat which will result In an addition .of although It has not yet been tried Id hour. this means aa equivalent of about speed. If not of beauty to tba vehicle, actual eon test, the vehicle has In trial sustained speeds of lxty-tw- o miles an hour, this extreme which ia of the electric variety, and, work shown kilometers (about fifty-threffort to minimize wind resistance la although quite heavy ia very .power- eighty-fiv- e miles) an hour a performance v apparently Jas tilled, an. la the gentle- ful. Tbe racing machine of M. Charron which. If duplicated In next summers man's selection of an almost absocontests ,wlll very likely lutely level stretch of 100 kilometers (built by tha Psnhard company), who International result in tbe discomfiture of tha of smooth mad between Evereux and will be one of the three representare-- ' Llaleux, who the special trial will tives of tha Automobile Club de French chauffeurs. The machine France in the In- sembles some of the French vehicles ternational races, In general outlines, having similar controlling and speed levers, disconla shown In the acgear, braka and accelerator. companying Illus- tinuing M. Chartration. 'Dak Sarglaa Bneord., ron la one of the Grand Duka Sergius, who repre1 most f e a r e a a sented the Czar of Russia at the fes."chauffeurs la tivities of the German erdwn prince France, and among In Berlin, is the uncle of Emperor hia many note- Nicholas. He was born May 11, 1857, and was married In 1884 to Princess performworthy ances may be' men- Elizabeth of Hesse Darmstadt In hia tioned the Marseilles-capacity as Governor of Moscow- SerNice In 1898, gius has made himself one of the roost unpopular men. in Russia. The the In the same people held him responsible for the CHAROON AND HIS VEHICLE. awful disaster at tbe esars coronation year and the In 1890. The peculiar virtue In 1896, when thousands of people bt An examination made. probably of tbe Illustration shows that the bat- of M. Charron 's flyer la that,, unlike were killed through faulty arrangeteries and tbe motor have been stored moat other racing vehicles, ap-- ments in handling the crowd. , ers it er ' '' four-cylind- er ee m Paris-Bordea- SERVANTS IN SOUTH AFRICA. The Bnw gala Freak from Bis Ketira Knot Is Boat. rich Only people, can afford to keep white servants Is South Africa Afl ordinary folk, sajrs a contributor to the London Mall, have to be content with the If casual, minishouae-bdJ- L trations of the" native The beet of all servants Is a Zulu, especially If he lsraw.that la, if he Is ffeah from hlsTftattve kraal and totally unspoiled by the wiles ol civilization. Such a boy is honest, sober, quick, clean and anxious to learn the ways of the amlungu, or white man. He soon becomes as deft aa an English butler, and as handy as the Ideal housemaid. He does everything, from cooking to answering the door, and after a little practice ha does It well Hla knowledge of English at first Is scanty,-bu- t be soon picks up a few words aid mixes m Kaffir Dutch and English' In a quaint polyglot dialect' When tiny- )ork the ko faanr mislay A lady boys .pace had a good but raw boy who did not understand the etiquette of visiting cards Three visitors called. Two of them- - gave the, boy their cards; the third did not happen to have one with her. The boy ushered the first two into the drawing room, but kept the third waiting Is ie hall, saying, Twe tnlssea got You no got The boys yod wait outodde. have all manner of Strange passes, ususHy chooed by themselves from eom cot r other of the words that ssr often used, such as Sixpence, Ticker (three-penn- y piece). Skilling, Kettle, Silly Feol, Pint Scrubber, Pot, Chopper ux or Of course they have their Whiskey. own tribal names, but they never use them In white men's house!, and It none of the aforementioned common objects serves to provide an appellation. the boy la usually Jim, Charley or John. well-mea- '- -- W. ' ftoovlrt Inherit 014,000. Trenton (N. J.) correspondence Phil- adelphia Record: That atone walls do not a prison makc-l- e particularly applicable la the case of Georgs Wright, of Camden, who has been confined In the state prison here for nearly a year. Although a prisoner, detained by the state authorities, Wright considers himself extremely fortunate, Tor ke has Juat received word tbat hU aunt, Mrs. Malloy, widow of Captain .Mike Malloy, of Philadelphia, baa died and left him tbe sum of 814,090. Mrs. Mallow's wealth amounts to 813,000, and 814,900 Is.her .conYtot nephow'i sharo. Wright has only another month " to serve. Great lengths of Wire. There are 1,200,000 miles of copper wire used In telephone service in tbe United State, and 4.000,000 calls are received daily In th telephone exchanges ef the country. .The wire would finite the earth at the equator forty-eigtimes, or reach from the earth to the moon five times. ht . ' LIVES INSURED How Flu fw fOR CHURCH. Mltou Bnlslng Adopted la Philadelphia. Fonda The Intrepid Insurance agent has invaded tha sacred precincts of EL Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church. The commercial complexion of the newest plan for raising church funds has aroused - considerable - interest la the most fashionable parish To procure money for chureh work, Dr. Mortimer, the rector, la conjunction with several members of the congregation, has been considering a -scheme of insuring tbe Uvea of a number fit wealthy communicants for the benefit of the church. The plan originated ia the resourceful Intellect of a society woman who ekes out her pin money by writing policies among the residents of Philadelphias Faubourg 8L Germain. It was proposed to the heads of SL Mark's that some of the wealthy supporters of the church should insure their lives on' the endowment plaiC hdTbatthe Cfiilrch" should be the beneficiary named In the' policy. This would give a prospective, fund of good proportion and would be splendid collateral for borrowing purposes. Tbe members of the church taking out tbe insurance would, of course, pay premiumsAs the policies matured the proceeds would be paid over to tbe church. This jilan Is not entirely new, but this Is probably the first time that It haa been proposed to a church of the character and standing t 8L " Marka Philadelphia Bulletin. thaadl Bard to Dollror. ' Qnodion school children have seat It Is pretty certain that people are thelF sympathy to Agulnaldo. But Loula-vtll- e never him? to It really as miserable aa they thlalq how will they get they are. . Courier Journal. A . |