and he died in poverty. _To Althea from
Prison_.

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MACKAY, CHARLES. Born at Perth, Eng., Mar. 27, 1814; died at London,
Dec. 24, 1889. Editor of the Glasgow _Argus_ 1844-47 and of the
_Illustrated London News_ 1852-59; New York correspondent of the
London _Times_ during the Civil War. _Clear the Way; Cleon and I_.

M'LEAN, JANE. _Slogan_.

MALLOCH, DOUGLAS. Born at Muskegon, Mich., May 5, 1877. Common school
education; reporter on the Muskegon _Daily Chronicle_ 1886-1903;
member of the editorial staff of the _American Lumberman_ from 1903;
associate editor from 1910; contributes verse relating to the forest
and lumber camps to various magazines; is called "The Poet of the
Woods," He is author of "In Forest Land," "Resawed Fables," "The
Woods," "The Enchanted Garden," and "Tote-Road and Trail." _Be the
Best of Whatever You Are; To-Day_.

MALONE, WALTER. Born in De Soto Co., Miss., Feb. 10, 1866; died May 18,
1915. Received the degree of Ph.B. from the University of Mississippi
1887; practised law at Memphis, Tenn., 1887-97; literary work in New
York City 1897-1900; then resumed law practice at Memphis; became
Judge of second Circuit Court, Shelby Co., Tenn., 1905, and served
till his death. Annual exercises held in the Capleville schools in his
honor. An excellent edition of his poems, issued under the direction
of his sister, Mrs. Ella Malone Watson of Capleville, Tenn., is
published by the John P. Morton Co., of Louisville, Ky. _Opportunity_.

MARKHAM, EDWIN. Born at Oregon City, Ore., Apr. 23, 1852. Went to
California 1857; worked at farming and black-smithing, and herded
cattle and sheep, during boyhood. Educated at San Jose Normal School
and two Western colleges; special student in ancient and modern
literature and Christian sociology; principal and superintendent of
schools in California until 1899. Mr. Markham is one of the most
distinguished of American poets and lecturers. His poem "The Man with
the Hoe" in his first volume of poems is world-famous, and has been
heralded by many as "the battle-cry of the next thousand years." He
has sounded in his work the note of universal brotherhood and
humanitarian interest, and has been credited as opening up a new
school of American poetry appealing to the social conscience, where
Whitman appealed only to the social consciousness. His books are "The
Man with the Hoe, and Other Poems," "Lincoln, a