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S qC t. t r. r L t. t I- I l TO THE ENDt END t In the night and nd In a lonely place one man killed another mother who had In Injure Injured Injured In- In jure him Having Ho done this he said akL to himself Now ow I can sleep for 01 his tongue and hand are nrc quieted for ever ever- more and going home he slept But before night had passed ho awoke awoke cold and saw sa that while his wife slept b by his side at the other othel side of oC the bed stood the Dead Man lan lanho ho whose c hand was as laid upon Ulon him Then he lie heInu Inu laughed hd saying You arc dead h why should I f ar nr you rou and nd fell ell asleep p p pa a again aln though the cold crept about his heart and numbed his brain brain and and when he lie woke the sun shone shon brightly a blackbird sang lustily outSIde the window window win wIn- dow and h he said Here Is an end of oC dreams That day while eating he felt a n cold wind InrI upon his chock cheek and turning to look he found that thai the Dead Man IRn touched him At l this he said ald nothing oth others rs being there hut hilt presently got up and left the room In another place he and the Dead Deal lInn going El side e by hy side he said again You fU arc nrc dead deal wh why should I I ear Jea you rOil nut Hut this time the tho Denel DeadMan tan Ver uns answered d. d saying Because c cI I am dead and vanished After J that the Dead Man ilan Jar came often orten choosing mostly the times when the theother theother other would woud be for amusement or 01 sleep sometimes coming while h he lau laughed when the lau laugh h dle died In his hlf dry r throat for tor th the thing be began to wear him awa away as many light feet fet will wear vear away a n stone Often Onen he looked nt ot his flesh Osh where the Dead De Man touched him wondering wondering won won- on dering to see flee no mark marl there until even evea by looking he paw W I one Then at last Jaet he told his wife all hurriedly lou hur TIed under his breath ben bending to her car ear hut but with a wandering eye ce for tor the Dead Man Inn who never er came Clune For this thing h he said s I cannot sit It quiet In m my house hOUle b by day or sleep In m my bed at night but I have hae a way that will fool him There Is I- a trick that I learned In th the East b by which h I can myself be like n II dead man breathless and with a still heart In that state you OU shall f have hn me burled buried deep th the eArthwell earth earthwell well trodden down n Let Lct It be on a n hill to so O that at nt nights I mil may sleep deep alone with the wind and the stars A twelvemonth twelvemonth twelve twelve- month hence you OU shall come and dig me up again B By that time the thing will have hn forgotten me mt and I sleeping sleeping- maybe shall have forgotten It At this the Dead Man standing un unseen seen fleen at hi his elbo elbow laughed but said nothing Afterward the other seemed eme to die too the breath leaving hi hl his bod body the the blood ebbing from rom his cheek check until his cn enemy my came come and stood one da day looking down upon uron him while he looked back from half dosed eyes upon uron which the they had already put death pennies to keep down the lids You have escaped me said the theother theother theother other II Ir his car but t went awa away lau laughing quietly Then his friends found a lonel lonely restIng rest- rest lag Ing place and carried him up where sunrise and sunset could be seen and where one felt ever every wind that blew and was watched b by all alt the stars I I shall sleep here said the man to himself for tor I shall have peace He had none The blades of oC grass Fras A as the they sprouted over ovel- him called to one another saying that the they covered ered the man who was washl hl hiding from Cram the dead The threads and beginnings of or springs s babbled of oC It as 5 the they t began Fan thell journey and he knew that their voices would grow Frow louder even en unto the sea sea- The pas passing ln wind told It to the stars who knew It al alread already at- at read ready and the earth whispered It In her sleep at t night As for or the man he could neither sleep nor move and at last he prayed for the years year's end which came neither sooner nor later latet for Tor hl hla praying but In bits Us Its own appointed time With It came the sound of oC a releasIng releasIng releasing ing spade and the man sobbed In his grave saying Now I shall shaH see my wife and look upon the world once more mon But It was the Dead Man Ian who dug dugdown dugdown dugdown down to him Riccardo Stephens THE HE WEST IN LITERATURE The Middle West Wrest will wIlt surely purely contribUte contribute contrib contrib- ute He some big big- hooks books so 50 o soon Boon as Its tel's have got past the awkward awk conscious conscious con con- sta stage c of craftsmanship and have learned to sink themselves cs more thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly thor thor- In their work vork The prairie life Is 18 rich In meaning The hugeness of oC Its undertakings and the mastery master which Its Us men have ha gained over over themselves and andr r the factors of oC their destiny have bred a aline line floe robust n reliance lIance and courage typical cal of oC the best that America has begotten begotten begotten begot begot- ten In her sons Though It be he agreed that human nature Is ever the same In Its fundamental passions It may yet et be true that the action of oC those passions pas pas- Is subject to modifications that that the basic lc material may be poured Into an varying ever succession of or 1001 molds s. s A mans man's work reacts upon himself If IC he lie succeeds his mood and hi bIn attitude to toward toward toward to- to ward life are arc not as lS the they would have been had he failed alle The men of oC the prairies as aN a community have come ore oft victorious after a mighty might hand to struggle with the titanic forces of oC naI nature na urn- nai i I ture and ancI they have known ho how ho hoto to turn the spoils of or victory to good account This gives h dIstinctiveness s to theil and mak makes s them worth considering The future makers of Western literature literature litera litera- ture hire If the they can fan contain themselves and work wisely partaking of or their peoples people assurance urance and strength of conviction and nOlI earnestness s of oC purpose c are arc to be envied COMMENT AND GOSSIP OF BOOKS DOOKS AND AUTHORS A new book by oy AIr Mr Howells Is on the I way vay It Is a collection of oC essays to be 11 I called Literature fin and ind Life It Is enlivened enlivened enlivened en en- livened b by much reminiscences Mr lr E. E K Chambers Chamber writes In a L recent re re recent recent re- re cent Aca Academy emy on un the ascendancy of the actor over the drama which he believes to be he a reversal of or the proper relation p. p j Sarah Grand has become an officer r of or the tho Scottish Association 8 for tor the Promotion Promotion Pro- Pro r motion of or Women's Public Work an organization deigned to secure the election of oC women on educational 1 Ids boards and the employment nt of or women 1 As s salaried sanitary Inspectors J S Jacob A A. A RIis's Hilss J uie new book hoole will be he puo 1 this month He calls calli It The Battie Battle Bat Dat- tie tic With With the Slum It Il will wilt contain I- I abo about t Illustrations six of oC which will wille be e by Thomas Fogarty 5 t The most con conscientious of literary artists Mr Co QuIller ch Is IB engaged cd Abrion Upon a romance dealing with n a tragedy f In connection with a love lo affair o of of the thet t IM Sister r of oC Charles and John Wesley t which has never b been cn cleared up up Mr lr Stephen Philips never ge ce n ec Pi anything anything any any- thing hut but the frankest truthfulness from the Satur Saturday a Review He Its Jat latest latet t characterization of oC him is the poet of oC mediocrity Th There re Is no Injustice In that Is the comment o of the New York t- t Trl Tribune bunco Eugene Rr of Gen Ge Geneva yS- yS va haa B written a book on two female ancestors of oC Rousseau Mme Bourgeois und Mme Durant Mme Bourgeois was so o quarrelsome and eccentric that when nearly nearly near near- ly 60 years old she ohe was vas brought b before rore the courts charged cd with being a n witch tortured and banished from Geneva Mme Durant maltreated her chambermaid chambermaid chamber chamber- maid who thereupon committed suicide by Jumping Into the Rhine Two new books b by Max 1 Gorky were we're were published In Lon London on last Jast week week The The Outcasts and Three Men The They arc are most mORt unpleasant reading but It Is Idle Idlet t to deny leny that they are powerful I From Fron to novels no yearly ear appear appear appear ap ap- ap- ap pear the world over ovel They arc are but a ashare ashare share of ot the earths earth's great stream of ot print but the the they are the la largest est share Manuscripts written en b by Burns comm command com corn m mand nd prices that vcr very few authors of ot toda today could afford to refuse for the production production production pro pro- of at original work Mr Samuel Samuer Valentine Coes Coe's In Scip- Scip lo los lo's s Garden and Other Poems Put Put- contains besides the title piece piece- an English version of the famous Dream of or a Scipio a number of oC poems poem on n classical or oi occasional subjects will remember that the Is spiritedly con- con In The Parlement of oC PonIes FOllIes I and ma may be Interesting to compare Mr lz h Coles Cole's with the en earlier version erslon i iI I If a man who rea really II knows his subject sub sub- Is a mall master tel of or It and has something of or Importance to say has haR written a at boo book ook t no matter how It Is iii It If It Its itis I Is s a alood good book we will take tako It It recently recent recent- ly h said ld a a. representative of at a firm that t has hns aa always alwn's had n II list full ull of oC such books Agnes and and Egerton Castle have hn written written writ writ- ten a new stor story entitled The Stat Star Gaz Una- ers They collaborated collaborate It may be re recalled recalled re- re called In The Bath Comedy and The House o of Romance while Young April and The Pride e of oC Jennico are arc from Mr Castles Castle's pen alone In Luck o the Earl of oC Iddesleigh has voiced a protest against gambling and other forms of oC speculative specula specula- cula- cula tive U money monc To his point he has led Sir Francis the eldest of oC three brothers and heir to i 1 goodly fortune through a number of oC wild experiences In mining speculation and the turf At first phenomenal luck pursues Sir Sit Francis and he makes thousands thousands thou thou- I sands ands of oC pounds with more case than les less favored men make shillings shillings but but I soon eoon the tables turn and the unfortunate unfortunate nate young man finally tiles dies u a poor pOol but I heroic death loath I Of oc making books there Is no end and anil yet history of oC literature for tor children children children chil chil- dren remains to be written Horace Walpole once said It Is as aa difficult to write for 01 young younS' children as to talk to them and It Is easily perceived wherein a man like might ht en encounter en- en counter Insurmountable obstacles but fortun fortunately all clever people do not agree aFree with him and grown ups ups' are giving more and more of ot their theil consideration consideration consid consid- cration and effort to the audience of oC childhood The J. 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B Lippincott company compan has hns Just Juat I Issued a a. volume which should prove of or lively ely Interest to a great reat man many mans Is Two sport loving Americans This Thousand housand Miles on an Automobile The author conceals conceal his Identity under the name Chauffeur but the authority author author- It ity of oC ht his writing Is undoubted He gives Ives an account of or a Journey journe on American Amerlean Amer Amer- lean ican roads of oC Its HB delights adventures and mishaP The he book tells nfl all about running and caring for an automobile and makes plain and unprejudiced comparIson comparison com corn parison of or the n advantages and disadvantages disadvantages vantages of oC different nt modes and makes illustrations are arc In the spirit of oC the narrative i POINTED PARAGRAPHS PROM FROM THE NEW V BOOKS There are arc greater virtues than thrift It Is better to die penniless than to have ha been too much of oC a saver The Thc The Scot The only safe sate Investments are arc education education tion and he health DanIel Daniel Everton You ma may be sure the devil de will hump himself If JC jou ou dont dont don't Those Delightful Delight Delight- ful ul Americans Bad Dad habits ire are leeches that suck a n Hercules to A effeminacy A Speckled Bird Mothers l personify circumstances to children we are symbols to them of oC baffling cramping fate The fate The Rescue Hescue Let me mc get Jet over o this difficulty somehow somehow somehow some some- how says say's youth that I J mn Inn may pia play the game of life well and well and our hair hall is turnIng turnIng turnIng turn- turn Ing gray before we learn that the difficulty cult culty Is the game The The a Way of DC E Es Es- cape Duty Is what we think about when Ill III or 01 are arc reminded reminder of or by creditors creditors- ld Da Davidsons Davidson's ons on's Dumas De Be people In de do world orld is IB dem dat tal takes es de le most ease Son ease Son The fools fool's eat ear was vas made for or the knaves knave's tongue Indian Fables The thing I did not pa pay for tor I found most expensive The Tho Tho Worlds World's People When a man ceases to make love e to hl his wife some other othel man begins la Fa Fa Fables bles for or the thc Elite Money Ione buys things ant and love wins things power takes things Fame for fora a Woman Good Is not n aggressive lve It Is the hall had halland and hateful things that force torce themselves themselves themselves them them- selves upon u us The Thc The Day of or ProE T r rHy r Ity Hy Sooner or later one finds on almost every mans man's road through h life lIe the sign sign- poet rOtt dux ux ux a. fact l A. 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