Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-11-02


I.amp-Iighter was just about as success
full. Isut these are two out of million.
Ont of one hundred books published, |
ninety are fat dead failures OF the
remaining ten. probably one may reach /
= sale of 10000 copies. The author |
gets for his copyright ten per cent. OF
the retail price. which on sl.5o book |
would be fifteen cents. 1t it sells To-
600 he gets $1,000. But the chances
are hundred to one against its having
any such sale, A book that sells $1,000
i considered a fair success, which gives
lis author 1915 for his labor. The most
of them manage to run their work
through paper first thus getting dou-
bic paw. Bret Harte makes good tar
living by his pen. but as yet has saved
nothing. Messrs. Henri Brown, Col.
Thomas ". Knox. and that class OF
writer's make more money because they
work harder.
The women writers do just about the
same as their brethren-Shirley Dare,
Nellie Hutchinson. Mrs. Runkle, Olivia,
and the great army of correspondents
and magazine writer's manage to make
from $4,000 to $1,000 a year. though
there isn't one of them who ought not
to have twice that.
How these ladies must envy Nilsson
with her $4,000 night
FAST HORSES.
This is the season TO see fast horses
ID the park and on the travelling roads
in the vicinity. The cool. crisp weather
makes driving delight. and | doubt if
any city in the world can show so much
in the way of speed. Commodore Van
derbilt is the heaviest patron of rapid
horse. flesh next to Bonner of the Ledger;
!, there are men unknown to fame who
} keep stock quite as progressive as either
) of them. There is one team to be seen
every day on the road that can make Its
mile in 2:22 easily. The horses have
been driven singly, one in 2:l9, and the
: other in 2:1S. 1t was sold to Califor
: MIA Spectator last week for $4,000.
And by the way. there is no bushes
/, so profitable. that I know of. as the rails
i ing. training and matching of earrlag
: horses. Any kind Of matched team
|. that will do at all for carriage. /
it worth ST. 200; and teams sell anywher
+ from that figure to $1,000. These teams
: understand. make no pretension to spec
, or any approach to it. They are simpl
It handsome. well-matched, stylish horse:
!" that have fairly decent action and loo
n well in plated harness. They must hay
le some blood In them-must be we'll br,
re ken and kind. but above all must loo
lie well. To look well In horses is the san
re thing in New York as it is in eyerythin
3 else. Most everything goes here |
st looks. The demand for horses of th
class is always brisk, and the market
always certain. The life of horse
en- necessarily brief. even though they a
ut carefully taken care Of as carriage hors
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les ments finish them rapidly.
n THE BROOKLYN TROUBLE
nd has settled down into the courts, and
A is to be hoped it viii stay there till it
i'd decided. Beeeher has withdrawn all 1
X, lecture engagements. because he has
ng give his whole mind to his suits: a.
5" Tilton has announced that he will aece
ar no engagements till after January,
lid the same reason. He is with his cou
do, sci every minute of the day. and is
tu- busy as he can possibly be. Mrs. Tilts
ar contrary to expectation. maintains |
ian attitude of hostility to Theodore. and
D 1fNAoeaAS Win LIS CH1AufC>- 4 luEEu
She the eldest daughter Of the disunil
pair. has taken position in one Of |
public schools in Brooklyn as teach
Theodore is very poor. His lecture b
mess MAS ruined by the Woodruff br
rs. ness. and his enforced quitting of
cod Independent was another blow Fl
for which he never recovered He is fin
q a ciall ruined. Beecher is not troub
1ro- in that way, for he holds his pulpit
bile his salary, and besides he was well
unit when the trouble began. But Til
AIRY has friends who will furnish him v
! of the munitions Of war, and he will nj
the desperate Sight for his life. Such 4
or don't die easily. or quietly.-Psetro
Ings Old Colony Memorial
nc1, THE DANGER og WET colI-'