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v j the st0uffv1lle tribune thursday makch 24 1904 master of biography leslie stephens name lingers half forgotten a xliht if tafxettrs ijtrarr ou el tflta h wu knlcfctd la 1003 brother f ftntni juc editor of corakllluls ort work 3jtmk a a writer f wf jicsllo stephen is one of tboao w names which lurk in everybodys p memory halfforgotten without as- i soclatlons to assist one to recall i them there is a good deal in a l na after all and hero is a very k famous one and the mention of it ft will have no effect on the average ft man beyond making him vaguely h wonder where he heard it before as a it is this eminent numofiettcrs is ft unknown to the public which is on fc fatnjllar tertns with sir gilbert hr yakwjjsw was knighted at the imf uarno tflbfcsone of the honors be stowed by roarjriivor in 1903 pleased literary circles more than the kcb given to leslie stephens maittr f short uiucraptty sir leslie stephen is dead and in a hundred newspaper and magazine offices short biographical articles ore being written about the master of biographical sketches though his life was a long and active one full of toil and productive of lasting re sults it is difficult in surveying the broad fields in which he labored to gather a noseguy which u nonliter ary public will appreciate sir les lie was a reserved man dwelling in a high thin atmosphere rarely de- scemling to the plain he had much of the intellectual aloofness so often remarked by students of tennyson lie was in short a bookman in stead of a fellowcitizen it is safe to fitly that he nover took enough sinterettfn public affairs to run for offlceln tho gift of a municl- iy td ho done so he would g been hefe at lived his s i5j4tthe past in the com- v of tjb famous host of eng- author voin he loved so well jjta taite for literature was in- hrited ifalrly enough from a long of ancestors who handled tho posequill with some facility his ftther sir james stophcn was the thor of a series of essays on ec clesiastical biography and his grandfather had also published mat ter of a more or less fugitive char acter hia brother james fltz- stephen inherited the literary and was a prolific writer tervjfci famous as a lawyer stosb mado a judge and o tiuw 4 was considered ono of tuh bto flsw n t brt- tf ctntl maybrick and j ry i james plho who was jyfefftpasi quarter of t i century i- j pared tispr nia death leslie pro- voquence with bkin ttnd a c the attacks made on duct of that famous case kdltar of csiaklll csllo stephen waa born in ken- onjcjoy28 1882 and re- tt eton kings trinity col- took his ba a three years ars he was a inlty but in vftud embarked yssp in 1871 ho 6 jef the colobratcd which had prob- i contributors as or since step- on for 11 years ad colli a in con- terms with the aiacauiays uamn sjwiiditig sir henry taylor and nassau senior while tennyson likkens and thackeray were illus trious members of various little cir cles in which he was made welcome at the home of the editor of the fall mall gazette he met harriet marlon thackeray younger daughter of the novelist and her he married she died in 1878 and later he wedded julia frlnsep duckworth whoso death occurred about nine years ago bit great in 1883 leslie stephen then 50 years old began the work on which his fame must rest the desiro pos sessed him to prepare a biographical dictionary of his famous country men to carry a causeway through the vast morass of antiquarian ac cumulation and to this task he ad dressed himself he did not pretend to write all these biographies him self he was to be merely tho edi tor but as a matter of fact the great share of the burden fell on his own shoulders he issued twen ty volumes of the dictionary of na tional biography and then his health failing he called to assist him mr sidney lee in collabor ation they got out five more vol umes and then mr stephen resigned the monumental task to tho capable hands of mr lee who has continued nt the helm ever since anyone who wishes to see leslie stephen at his best should read his sketches in tho dictionary his study of johnson has been called the peerless model of short biography turning over the thousands of pages in this lib rary one will find that stephen was the biographer of soruo of the great est characters there hi runic m writer in all his writings and beside hia contributions to the dictionary ho issued about a dozen volumes lies- lip stephens personality is strongly merked as a stylist ho is admir able a master of brevity an artist hi detail to carve a character on a cherry stone as someone has ex- persed it was a task in which ho delighted and yet when opportunity oftt red he ccrld split hairs with the rrjis were biographical and vs biofrrnuhics philosophical stud ies ho was always downright and sincere and it has been said of him that he never wroto below him self although he might quarrel with the name he was a sceptic of the school of bentham mill and spencer and had little sympathy with some great men jowett for instance who held opposite views but if ho has written with lack of sympathy it must bo remembered that his business was not to eulo gize as a cold impartial slightly sardonic and humorous biographer he will rank with the best writers of english language a picttjresqlt inbu5trv not much not much on time hen hold and in that tact with tho greatest english writ ers of the period among his friends he could number hardy stevenson r torifl james payne henry james russell lowell and a cost of others bean on intimat babg costs toe moch when the price paid is the mothers health and happiness the father doesnt realize as he romps with the child what years of wifely suffering must be set against the babys laughter chronic invalidism is a high price to pay for the painful joy of maternity yet ft la at such a cost that many a woman becomes a mother such a price is too much because it is more than nature asks by the use of doctor pierces favorite pre scription ma ternity is made gractlcauy less ana a quick convales- enceia assured in almost ev ery case i am pleaae4 to five my teati- mooy and wln i coula find words ttronf enough to induce other uf- fereri to use dr pierces fatorite j pixacrlptlon writes mrs wesley gay of eemptrine ont sox 6 por eight year after my little boy f tli beit vtri via ia baltata an cirii titbits relates tho following one of the best known r as has a favorite anecdote one often told but always good of which ho claims to be the original narrator moreover it- is a true one an old country couple so he re lates had strayed into the man chester art gallery catalogue in hand and were wandorlng from room to room looking at tho pictures which were numbered anew ono two three and so on in each divis ion instead of continuously through out the whole exhibition the two old people stopped in awe and ad miration before madox browns her oic picture tho death of king lear whas this un jinny asked the old man a 11 see jarge all see of yejl give me a minute the old lady hastily turned to the catalogue division of another room and read off tho number correspond ing to that of the picture before them it chanced to bo that of landsccrs famous picture of a collie fallen over a cliff and just reached by tho anxious shepherd who an nounces the result of his examina tion of the poor beasts injuries to his comrades on tho rocks above she read off tho title of the picture to her husband theres life in the old dog yet looking compassionately on the picture form of tho aged and for saken king jarge failed to per ceive anything wrong in the name so there is gall he exclaimed in a burst of pity adding with dropped voice and a shako of the head at lear but not much not much timid watklhf ou turuk trhrwau kltli- tho drolet concessions referred to in recent press despatches involve one of the most picturesque indus tries in canada says koiuk in the toronto news in the beginning of the gold days on the saskatchewan odd spots of the sand beach spark- hrd like cornnaal tipintl withfrost the indian saw it as he paddled in his canoe but it was ail a bit of little spectacle to him like the rain bow nothing in it the white settlers called it flour gold silted down from tho far north when the yukon camps were a dream he saw n mining proposition at once and he set up his altar to the god of gold on a sandbar ho iriado it himself with an axe a hammer a few nails a sieve and a piece of blanket when it was established the idol looked like a halfbrother to a magnified cofteemill and a saw- horse it was called a grizzley besides his new commercial idol tho goldworshipper stood with a tin pail on tho end of a pole he scooped up the watery gravel and dumped it slump by slump into tho hopper tho stones ran into a heap and tho fine sand silted through on the blanket in ono scoop might be one grain of gold splash garr up with tho gravel and down with the stones went the pail perhaps the only sound in miles of solitude and the patient miner tho only mov ing figure the stones heapod into a cairn at his feet and the floury sand clogged up on the blanket hero and there in the blanket sift at sun down when tho miners shacksmoko began to curl out of tho poplars a microscope might have detected a grain of gold and when the griz zley hermit got it separated out by a mercuric procass- learned from a book he had perhaps two dollars worth of flour gold if ho had kept that splash garrl steadily going to the swing of his elbows this waa tho poor mans privilege on the upper reaches of tho sas katchewan till tho drolet concession came into vogue then sixty miles of the river above and below ed monton were leased by the govern ment to drolet as a monoply the picturesque grizzley with its un kempt worshipper aflti his polepail shoved off down the river long before tho grizzley had be gun to develop into the dredge at least three stages of evolution were gone through before tho present gig antic grizzley on a barge was put into the goldwashing business tho modern gold dredge three of which played on the saskatchewan at ed monton in 1901 is simply a mani fold big grizzley in evolution in stead of the miners polepan scoop ore twontythree iron buckets on an endless chain in place of tho wiro sieve la a huge revolving perforated cylindor as big as a locomotivo boiler for the miners arms a hugo steam engine tho drodgo is stationed on a sand bar and moored by cables to the shore the chain of buckets climbs round on its endless splash scooping up tho sandbar and as each bucket passes the perforated cylinder it dumps its load of watery gravel the stones pass on out at the rear the sand sifts through on to n ser ies of slanted tables till it finally lodges in a blanket there it is separated by a secret process the sand from the flour gold ami if a 51200 nugget come up it probably wont happen again all summer but the crew as they grabpile in the houseboat alongside and bunk in tho cabins on tho dredge talk about that nugget as though it were u kohlnoor diamond these golddredges are clumsily picturesque but to tho traveler on the lower saskatchewan the ft timers grizzley run by a lone some halfbreed miles away from any living biped except the birds and his shadows ore the monument al picture of a strenuous and now somewhat pathetic past the dredge makes more noise but the grizzlcya splosh garr is one of tho lone- homcst sounds in the lone jiml torn i aoflered with female weakseaa sore aide and sometimes did eflt until i beni ion had notlmowwiutlwmboujrtoda tricdaercral doctor bat derived no benefit until natof dr pierces favorite frtserlptlo only naed roar botuea alao aoma of dr pfcrcc appoaltotlei i recomi rarfrlenda uaayoae gtadlyannrcr- patahibacjl i notknowwbatli- doctor bat derived ting dr pierces favorite air naed roar bottlea alao i anuaeoue and beallog 8appostotea when z felt luce another pcraon i recommend dr vienxa medtdcea to all m- wtahea to writ me 1 will gt 7wahercea favorite prescription con btsina no alcohol and is entirely free from uiriom cocaine nd all other narcotics x x the dealer who offers a substitute for favorite prescription does so to gain the little more profit paid on the sale of leas meritorious medicines hza profit u tout ipsa therefore accept so sub- dr pierce pleasant pellet regulate taebowttla mmtriantloh r krlluk war km a it appears says the lancet that tho most probable explanation of tha alleged deterioration of tho working classes is placed upon a misconcep tion of the facts and that what we are witnessing mnybe merely one of tho effects of the improved well- being of the people and of tho greater attractions offered to tho worker by civil employment if this bo ho the recruiting sergeant is really carrying on his work in a j lower social stratum in which by j force of circumstances tho propor- tion of tho unfit is greater than was the case when he was appealing largely to a relatively better class u is too conceivable that although the fact is not recognized a some what higher standard as regards fit ness may now quite unconsciously be set and that perhaps more stress i rl k licit attrrv rur lord kitchener when he was a young engineer showed thnt his readiness of resource was even then well developed lie was engaged on tho survey of tho holy lund for tho palestine exploration fund when cholera broke out at safed it sa- rnnria whero they were staying and a cordon of turkish troops were drawn around tho i own to prevent any one escaping kitchener deter mined that this should not stop him or his companions so the party set off on mules for the const town of haifa of course they were stopped by the turks before long when kit chener announced boldly thnt ho had o firman from the sultan and pro duced a long paper with sign print ed on it in chocolate and gold ills party was nt once allowed to go and as it passed thuturks present ed arms to tho firman which was a wrapper from a chocolate box ha ri vu a party of wits once stopped lo dine nt an english tavern and when the feast was over one of them call ed in tho hostess madam ho said t am going to give you a lesson in astronomy hnvo you not heard of that great platonic year when everything must return to its first conditions traveling in canada writes mr joseph hat ton in the newcastle england chronicle you notice with what fondness the colonists link their settlements with the moth er country here in a letter from a mr trimmer you have mention of london in the county of middlesex and a village on the itiver thames i know that itiver thames it is only a little stream i saw it froz en and with toboggans dashing down upon it from a great height it recalled to me the thames back water at home when i saw it later in the summer on my way by a freight train from montreal to que bec a boncvolent guard pulled his train up to get in c some supper i am not suro whether it was london or newcastle or bristol but it had a high sounding name ere this it may have become a town or city for ft was admirably situated with good transit service by rail and water at that time some five and twenty years ago it consisted so far as i could see of an inn a sawpit and a little graveyard the guard of the train who had discov ered myself and a friend lonely and tired and having eaten our little store of provisions obtained at mon treal delighted our hearts with a right royal hospitality got us a brace of birds urlbaf of bread n bottle of whiskey and some fruit though had to stap his train and knock uj il side inn to do it and when iod the cost of it which we did as delicately as a pro per appreciation of our treatment would permit did he give us the bill not he he smiled pleasantly offered us a cigar case and said ha was only too pleased to have tho company of two englishmen on ills freight train and moreover that lie had discovered by the names on our baggage that one of us was the namesake of a great engish ballad composer some of whose relatives lived on his line and were his friends and then ono of us had to explain that not to our knowledge wvie we related but that wo know the line old pialodh well that wo had tried to knock up a relationship uvt had fnfp hot at tho same time our admiration for inm was oi the most exalted character and so on and his name was j l hatton who wrote goodbye sweetheart to anthea and scores of other famous compositions at quebec the canadian guard helped ub to carry our bags found us a comfortablo hotel and left upon our memories impressions of canada that were not diminished by the club hospitality and the intense british patriotism we encountered everywhere and what a wonderful country what vast unoccupied picture que open spaces what rivers what forests what possibilities of prosperity and povr a lttiv fitln i alexander mcgibbon inspector of northwest indian agencies who is dead at calgary nt the age of 75 was formerly a wellknown merchant in montreal an energetic scotch man he was president of the st andrews society there and took part in many public demonstrations lie was in charge of the transport of stores during the rebellion of 1883 and was for years in the mon treal field battery commanded by col a a stevenson subsequent- ly he received his permanent pi- poiutment in the west from sir john macdonalds government and has lived thcro since j ii n jim nport panama has no open seaports oxr cpt the two railway terminals and iocns el toro the centra of a largo banana industry to the north of colon plain udillng plum pudding was originally plum porridge and served for breakfast not dinner a niunuerer of course i will be uglier some dny she whispered impossible ho replied gnllnntly and he wonders thnt she sent his pres ents hack i blood poison j if yoneter contracted any blood disease vou are cever safe unlesa the tiros o zmmmfflsmmmmnm momenta are little things yet by tlifirproper use a book may be read a picture may be painted a profession ybo learned rind n life made useful fyoaever contracted any olson has bcou 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