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husband are left to mourn the loss of a devoted mother and wife. They were all present at the funeral services which The Executive and the Treaty Making Power By W. H. TAET, Secretary of War were held at the church this afternoon at 1:30. Mrs.

John Rossis Dead Mrs. John Ross died Tuesday morning July 4, 1905, at at four o'clock at her home in the south part of town. Lucy Ann Cooley was born in New York. She was united in marriage to John Ross in Pennsylvania and came to Kansas 23 rears ago. Seven boys and four girls, eleven children in all and her Rev.

Crandail delivered IIILE the recent attempt to maintain a delegation of delegated power was defeated for the time, I think, with deference to the great lawyers who denied its validity, that such delegation of delegated power will ultimately the sermon. The remains were interred in the cemeterv here. Deceased, was a member of the. Plain ville W. R.

C. The Construction of A Novel By HALL CAINE. the Manx Novelist 'ATURE herself provides the first essential genius with out which success in fiction writing is impossible. To the one happily possessed of it and with a desire to enter the field I would caution him not to indulge in it too strenuously at first. That is ant weaken the style.

WRITE come to be recognized as permissible. The treaty making power of the United States is committed to the president by and with the consent of the senate, two-thirds thereof concurring. A treaty when properly made and confirmed is the law of the land. The treaty making power is therefore analogous to the executive power. IT -IS A DELEGATED POWER, and the rule against the delegation of such delegated power is certainly as sfcrong as against the delegation of legislative power.

This is expressly recognized in the decision of the supreme court in respect to the reciprocity clause of the McKinley bill. By a treaty with a number of powers the United States agreed to the establishment of an international court at The Hague, before which might be submitted controversies and differences between the contracting powers, and this treaty referred to and contemplated the making of general treaties of arbitration between each two of the contracting parties. These treaties were submitted to the senate for confirmation, and the senate, contending that the special "agreement" provided in the second clause could not have any validity on the United States unless it was concurred in by the senate, changed the word "agreement" to "treatv" in order that this construction should not be doubtful. The president regarded a treaty agreeing to arbitration as A MERE AGREEMENT TO AGREE and as making no successful step toward general arbitration of differences. The position of' the president was that, for the purpose of facilitating the settlement of international disputes, it was within the competence of the president and the senate, as the treaty making power, to agree with another nation that all controversies within a certain defined class should be submitted to The Hague tribunal and to provide that the president might, WITHOUT FURTHER CONSULTING THE SENATE, by agreement with the representatives of the other power, define clearly the matter in dispute, etc.

The argument is that in Order that the treaty making power may bo' efficiently used and that international controversies may be speedily sent before a court without awaiting the slow process of confirmation by the senate, the president and the senate may, after defining' v.he classes of controversies to be settled by arbitration and fixing the court before which such classes of controversies are to be settled, confer upon the executive the power to decide for the United States whether the controversy in question is within the class of controversies defined in the treaty and confer the power by subordinate agreement to define the issues of the controversy and to fix the details of the procedure. The mere mandate to the president to decide whether a controversy is within a class of controversies with respect to which those twq nations have by a binding treaty agreed that they may bo submitted to The Hague tribunal is not a delegation of the treaty making power at all. IT IS A MERE CONFERRING OF EXECUTIVE DISCRETION, IT IS TO BE HOPED THAT THE QUESTION MAY BE RE-EXAMINED NEXT WINTER AND THAT SOME METHOD MAY BE DEVISED BY WHICH GENERAL ARBITRATION TREATIES MAY BE PROMPTLY APPLIED TO INTERNATIONAL DIFFERENCES WITHOUT HAVING TO SE-CURE IN EACH INSTANCE OF. THEIR APPLICATION THE CONSENT OF TWO-THIRDS OF THE SENATE. ONLY WHEN IN THE HUMOR.

Do not try to copy other authors' methods or style of writing or take their advice BE YOURSELF ENTIRELY. The great majority of novels written these days are too similar in plot and theme. This is especially true of the love novel. Originality is what every author should strive for. Originality generally means popularity, and the result is likely to be satisfactory from the financial side.

A novel should be written over twice. I believe in rewriting, for the reason that it shows up the faults AND THEY ARE ALWAYS NUMEROUS of the previous attempt. I have generally adhered to this rule myself. It took me just-a little over fourteen months to write "The Eternal City," and I wrote the story over twice. It is a mistake, however, to hurry oneself in writing to try how many words or pages can be crammed into an hour or a day.

Too much haste naturally results in faulty construction and logic, and ESPECIALLY so if the plot of the story be an intricate one. Some people say that they can work best when they hurry most, but it is not the case with me, and I feel that inspiration does not come to the hurried mind so readily as it does when one is able to ponder deeply and shape one's thoughts into some truly perfected form. My journalistic experience in the earlier days of my career has not been of much assistance in the matter of speed. But fction writing and journalism are two different things. My newspaper experience, however, has been of the greatest help to me in many other ways, and to those who intend entering the hazardous field of novel writing a few years spent in the school of journalism, especially where the opportunities for travel are open, offers an excellent preliminary training.

The literary allotment ground has been so well worked that a new potato patch is not easy to find. The tendency, however, points in the direction of the commercial novel. I do not mean the pot boiler epecies, but THE LARGER COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL SORT. In dealing with periods that is only natural, and the organization of mighty trusts and the magnates who control them offer an expansive theme to exploit. Romance, after all, endeavors only to reconstruct the history of a period or personalities IN PICTURESQUE FORM and to be successful must not ignore the general conditions of the period dealt with.

It is not unreasonable to euppose, therefore, that the romantic novel of the future will be highly colored with.thc romance of trade. AMERICAN NOVELISTS HAVE ALREADY GIVEN SLIGHT INDICATIONS OF THIS TREND OF THOUGHT, AND I DO NOT THINK IT IS UNLIKELY THAT 'AM .11 CA WILL PRO-JOE THE COMING NOVELIST AND THAT AMERICAN HIS7CRY VI-L HAVE NO SMALL PART IN THE NEW RO.V.ANCZ. nP0 GUDGER UliW IflL fiL EWING DENTISTS Permanentlvlocated in Stockton. One partner of the firm will be in the home office all the Mondays. Woodston Tuesdays.

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