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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-12


dollar a line. When it is known that rate
equivalent to from Is to 20 cents line is
considered most satisfactory by many of
the most distinguished authors, and that
the rate of a cent a word is regarded as
tempting and remunerative employment
by many other authors, it is easy to see how
great Mr. Everett's earnings We're in com
parison to others.
Henry Ward Beecher frequently earned
as much as 500 for short article say of
1000 words, which required perhaps less
than an hour to write, and he received in
one sum So, 600 for his novel of Norwood"
then the largest sum ever paid to an Amer
lean author in advance for single story
Washington Irving made Il contract with
his publishers for a life of Washington,
which was so remunerative that he was
able to live very handsomely for the rest
of his life upon the income received by the
investment of that money
OF living Americans probably Mark
Twain and Bret Harte have received the
largest sums for magazine contributions,
excepting those occasional payments made
to men who have gained great distinction in
other spheres of activity than the literary.
Bret Harte received, much of it in advance,
$4,000 for a single short story completed in
three installments although it was ex-
pected when the contract was made that
the story would be much longer than that.
He has frequently received as much as
81 900 for Il single short story of 1000 or
| 5000 words, and even now, when his work
is not in so great demand rs used to be the
case, he commands rate equivalent to
| about 20 cents n word.
Mark Twain two years ago entered into
f,t., IL, ,l,,. Of late
from Europe at the rate of 81 600 letter
There were to be not less than II of them,
and the length of them was to be deter
mined by himself, He also received 5000
for the serial rights in America of new
novel which he had just written, so that
his payments from this one source prac-
tically made at one time amounted to $751;
600, which publishers say in proportion to
| the work done is the largest sum received
by any professional writer for literary
work.
James Redpath, who after many years of
hard work with his pen-during which he
published some very successful books-was
fitted by his experience to speak of the pos
sibility of large earnings, once said that it
was curious fact that with one or two
exceptions in favor of those who had gained
immortality by their pens the richest re-
wards came to men and women who had
not made profession of literature, but had
taken up the pen in n desultory sort of
way These were celebrities who had
gained fame and success by some extraor.
binary achievement in politics, war, ex'
ploration or science. Mr. Redpath added
that probably the best that a literary man
could hope for, all things working in his
favor, was an earning capacity of from
s., 600 to s., 900 year, and he believed this
sum could be secured only after many years
of patient waiting and work and could
only be earned for "A few years when mar
is in the prime of life. +. j. EDWARDS.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-12
IN A TOWN OF ALIENS.
AMERICAN SOIL, BUT LARGELY CON-
TROLLED BY BRITISH CAPITAL.

An Experience In the Upper Michigan PEN
insula-Dragooned by Motley Crowd.
A Half Way Unknown Region of the I'm
iona Travellers Tale.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-12
The Neynote of a STRUCTURE.

Delphian asks for some information on
the subject of keynotes, as he has read
that a structure may be destroyed by find
ing its keynote, The story doubtless rests
upon the following account given by South
wick: A bridge had been erected at consid-
cradle expense near Bristol, England, when
fiddler boosted that he could destroy in a
week what it had taken many months to
build. The people scoifed at him, but he
played until he found the keynote of the
keystone of the bridge, and when the lat
ter began to quiver the people begged him
to stop 1t has been suggested that the
destruction of the walls of Jericho may
have been achieved by the Israelites having
found their keynote in their daily process
sions around the city.-New York Ledger.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-12
New Form of Marriage Service.

A justice of the peace in Sandersville,
Ga, being called upon to perform a mar
riage ceremony, is accused of concluding
with: "By the authority vested in me as an
officer of the state of Georgia, which is
sometimes called the Empire State of tn
south; by the fields of cotton that lie spread
out in snowy whiteness around us; by the
howl of the coon dog and the gourdviDe,
whose clinging tendrils will shade the en-
trance to your humble dwelling place; by
the red and luscious heart of the water
melon, whose sweetness fills the heart with
joy; by the heavens and earth. in the prs
ence of these witnesses, pronounce you
man and wife"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-12
THE LITERARY LETTER.
Rich Rewards That Come to Men of Talent
and Fame.
Especial Correspondence

Especial Correspondence
NEW YORK, Sept. 1l--Foran article COM
prising less than 5000 words and published
In the September number of one of the
leading magazines the sum of 81 600 was
paid, which is Mt the rate Of a little over 20
cents word, and this payment has been
spoken of as one of the largest ever made
for a magazine article But there have
been many cases In which editors have felt
perfectly justified in paying a much higher
rate than that for contributions to their
magazines.
1t is tradition in Great Britain that
Charles Dickens received the largest sum
ever paid for n short story, having fur
nished Robert Bonner good many years
ago story of some 10000 words for which
he received a check for 5000. Mr.. Dickens
was amazed ut what he regarded as the
magnitude of Mr. Bonners proposition,
and it was regarded in literary and pub
fishing circles in Great Britain as so extraor-
binary that even to this day it is one of
the most interesting traditions in publish
ing circles Dickens once told his nearest
friend, John Forster, that if he had been
paid for all his work such high rates as he
received from Mr.. Bonner his writings
would have brought him more than half a
million pounds, or 100000.
1t is not known exactly what the British
poet Swinburne was paid for the advance
copies of his latest long poem for American
publication, but the report prevails in pub
fishing circles that he received s. 5000 for it.
| In addition to that a newspaper paid tele-
graphic tolls of 81 900 in order that it might
| secure ahead of all possible rivalry this
poem for publication in New York city.
Mr.. Gladstone has been paid as high a
rate as 81 a word for a magazine article, he
having received s., 500 for a short essay.
Colonel Ingersoll has been paid nearly as
| large an amount as that for some of his
magazine contributions, and ex-senator
| Ingalls, was, according to excellent nfor-
nation, offered $4,000 for 10 articles the
| length of which was to be determined by
| himself, the single stipulation being that
the minimum number of words they were
each to contain should be 1000 Had such
rate been paid for the magazine article
concerning which so much comment now
prevails in literary circles, the writer would
have received about IS coo instead of 81 600.
| Edward Everett, for a series of short
essays published many years ago in the
| New York Ledger, received at the rate
of 800 apiece, and as no one of them was
| longer than a single column of The Ledger,
the rate paid to him was something like a
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-12
GAMBLING AT FAIRS.



BUFFALO, Sept. 1.-THE county fair sea-
son is now at food tide, and the harvest of
the travelling gambler is at it's height. The
said harvest is q particularly easy one, too,
for it is mostly gathered through the
agency of some modification of the wheel of
fortune device so familiar at fairs
One of the surest devices for winning
dollars from the pockets of the unwary is
known as the beehive, and this but a form
of the wheel of fortune. 1t is known as
the "haphazard" or>"beehive," and con
sists of an inner and outer cone, the latter
of glass, placed upon a heavy circular piece
of wood, around the rim of which are 80
numbered compartments separated by thin
metal plates The inner cone is studded
with nails driven rather close together and
projecting just about far enough to touch
the outer one.
The game consists of dropping a marble
through an aperture in the top of the outer
cone The little ball pursues a devious
way to the bottom, zigzagging along be
tween the nails. The compartments are
numbered, and if the marble falls into one
corresponding with the number on any OF
the prizes that are seductively displayed
near at hand the player wins. This hap
pens just often enough to keep the Interest
of the crowd from waning. 1t can be pre-
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-12
Giving AN Order For Dinner.

A little common sense and straightfor-
ward purpose will often do very well in
stead of "book learning" when IA man finds
himself in "A tight place.
A member of professional baseball club
put up at first class hotel in a city where
his nine happened to be playing. 1t was
his first season, and he was hardly aecus-
toned to so much luxury. The bill of fare
was trouble to him. printed largely in
French, as all first class bills of fare are,
He studied over it for some time. Then he
beckoned to the waiter.
Got any roast beef"
"Yes, sab. Any vegetables, sahf"
The baseball player took up the card
again hopelessly, Then with defiant air
he described half circle round his plate.
MAKE it kind o. cloudy round here" he
said
And the waiter did-Exchange.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-12

EsCANABA, MICH, sept. I2.-'A strange
town and strange people" thought to
myself just after stepping off the cars, and
looking round me from my coign of van
tage on the depot platform. Coming from
an older civilization and seeing only new
houses, many Of them built in odious aud
too ornate taste; many of them aping--at a
distance-all kinds and classes of foreign
architecture; many of them mongrel of de
sign and rude of finish, it was only natural
] should think it "A strange town. Finding
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-12

Andirons, says a trade journal, for coun-
try houses are now made OF bright, pol
ished brass, and the tendency is TO have
them of gigantic size, The bright, polished
brass bears the fire WELL looks honest and
has returned to favor for these reasons. In
places where the andiron is never intended
for use they are gilded, and rhis cheat is on
par with the gas log-the latter in add
ton being triie unwholesome. Black
irons are used with colonial mantels. Old
brass and oXodized brass are passing out OF
date, -------
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-12
A Mistake Made by Many Mothers.

The mother who walks after her children,
pickingup their clothes and toys, hanging
up their hats, folding their napkins and
performing other little duties for them
which they should attend to themselves,
does them grieyous wrong, for she Is sow
ing in their breasts the seeds Of selflshness,
which can never be wholly eradicated.--
Housekeeper,
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1893-04-27
An Eel-Hunting Dor.

An Irish setter dog, owned in Noank,
a few weeks ago surprised his master by
appearing by his side when near the
Noank Ice Company's pond with large
eel in his mouth. The incident led to
the suspicion that he had taken an eel
from the pile of some fishermen along
the shore of the pond, and no notice
was taken Of it. Pretty soon he ap-
peared with another good-sizsd ee, in
his mouth, and the way in which he
came by this eel became cause OF ln-
quiry. The owner thought that he
would follow the deg and see whose
eels he was stealing. The dog seemed
pleased to have the attention of his owner
and ran to part of the shore OF the
pond that was not frozen and along
which large quantities of dried leaves
were packed in the water. He ran along
the edge of the leaves, and in moment
or two made a snap at something In
them and brought forth another large
eel. His owner then explored the spot
with a stick and found that the eels
were huddled there together in mass
passing the winter. He called the at
tention of an acquaintance to the fact
and he proposed to see how many eels
we're beneath the leaves. Having no
eel-spear he procured an ordinary pitch
fork and proceeded to throw the eels
out. The number astounded him, and
when counted they were found to be
nineteen dozen, or 22S eels.-Norwich
Conn., Bulletin.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1893-04-27

trance to the big bridge, through Chat
ham Square, until finally she is lost to
view in the maze of streets on the east
side. Wonder as to what the enormous
bag containsis only equalled by the COM
miseration felt for the woman and he
seemingly hard lot. A veteran Park Row
rounder cleared up the mystery the other
day after number of persons had made
guesses as to what was in the bag, these
guesses ranging all the way from feathers
to lead.
.sThat there sack" said he, "has got
corks into it, and you don't need to be
wasting of your precious sympathy on
that there female, for they represent
clear profit of from $40 to $40 to her,
which is pretty good for days work.
There are champagne corks, whisky
corks, beer corks, 'pollinaris corks and
every kind of corlxs used in bottling
liquors. She is taking them home now
and will set her children at work sorting
them into different sizes. She buys them
for ten or fifteen cents apailful from the
saloons, and when they are assorted she
sells them over again for from twenty
five to forty cents a gross.
Then there are those who make reg
ular business of calling people who have
to go to their work at an unusually early
hour In the morning. They are to be
found in every part of the city now,
from the Battery to Harlem. "Thla
busines. said," one of them, "has its
amusing sides, as we'll as It's dangers.
New policemen often cause me good
deal of trouble. They see me enter
number of houses with no apparent OBJ
iect, and often take me to the station
house as a suspicious character. OF
course, the Sergeant knows me and lets
me go at once.
"Now, do you see that2" continued
he, pointing to knob on bis forehead
about the size of birds egg. swell,
got that from one of my oldest custom
ers for persisting in waking him up.
He was tired and sleepy, and he threw
heavy boot at my head. He would have
chucked an alarm clock out of the WIN
dow. New York News.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1893-04-27

He said to himself that if ever he got
out OF this alive, he would 60 to some.
body who knew one and get it and COM
nit it to memory. But what to do now
distressed him. He thought and thought
and thought, but only to find himself
repeating again and again:
Where is the little boy minding his sheep9
Under the hay-mow fast asleep.
"Weil," said Stills, gathering himself
together to begin the ascent, and to face
the storm anew, 81 can't help it; it's all
know it's the best I can do, and if it
won't go, why, so much the worse for
me-" 1t somewhat comforted him,
however, and he felt better for saying it.
The ascent to the top of the coulee
was performed with the expenditure of
almost all his remaining strength, and
when Stills felt himself on the level
prairie he moved slowly and feebly. He
was conscious that his body was stiffen-
ing, that he no longer felt keenly, and
that it was a question how far he could
90 without falling. This he attributed
to the fearful cold rather than to fatigue,
and he began to swing his arms, to jump,
to pound his legs, and to do everything
that would aid tie circulation of his
blood. He kept on and on until he felt
sure he must be very near his shack. and
then hope began to fail him. He could
see nothing, hear nothing, but the wind,
feel nothing but the savage snow. Still
he walked, holding his hands out.
stretched before him, and uttering short,
low means of despair. Suddenly he fell.
He had stumbled. He moved his numb
hands about in the snow. cts my
wood -pilel' cried Stills; ~ am savedr"
1t was his wood pile, but there were
as many possible directions in which his
shack might lie from the wood-pile as
there were points of the compass. He
figured the thing out, though, with no
little judgment. If he had come in
reasonably straight line from the coulee
to the wood pile the shack was about
thirty feet to the right. He turned and
paced off the thirty feet, thirty five,
forty-but he did not strike the shack.
Then he faced directly about and paced
his way back to the wood-pile. Having
got it again, he started off second
time, somewhat more to the right.
Again he failed and again he returned.
He made five journeys back and forth
from the wood-pile, not daring to move
save in straight lines from and to it, his
courage running higher at each start and
falling deeper at each return. But the
sixth trip gave him his life. He fell di-
rectly on the squared log that served
him for door step.
Stills opened his coat, and reached
his stiff hand into its inside pocket for
the key of the paddock that fastened his
door. 1t took him an age to find it,and
a weary, weary time to get it in the lock.
But when, at last, he turned it and re-
moved the hasp, leaned against the
heavy door, staggered into warmth and
safety, and fell upon his bed in the
coroer, be said, family, "Ill say over
them lines again before l drop of to
sleep. It's wheat farm to whlsp o
straw that they was what saved me!"-
New York Tribune.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1893-04-27
A Remarkable Case.
The sentiment expressed iu the lines
"When we begin to live,
We all begin to die"

We all begin to de-"
was almost literally verified in the case
of Simon M. Elder, who died at Port.
land lately. He was man of remark
ably robust health until his final illness
of only few months, and yet surgical
examination showed that death was
caused by a kick from horse sixty years
ago, when Mr.. Elder was a small boy.
The animals hoof crushed the skull two
inches above his right eye, and the oper-
alton above referred to disclosed large
orifice in the skull, through which it was
seen that the right frontal lobe OF the
brain was entirely gone. How life and
reason were sustained for years under
such conditions is subject of interest to
medical science. "That he should have
survived the accident was in itself
MARVEL" said his attending physician
.sbut that he retained his faculties and
led a life OF useful industry, makes 1t a
truly wonderful case. boston Journal.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1893-04-27
A BLUEBIRD'S SONG.

~ .,r,r,a souls, ofttimes in simplest ways,
~ can,a sweet surprises that-we scarcely
know why
.Iod with sudden brightness dreary
days,
4 or cot rainbow in stormy sky.
smile, perhaps, from some dear pass
er-by,
. vord uusought, of sympathy OF praise,
A vav.side flower, a fower-like butterfly
r1o veriest trife has its spell to raise
Some dropping heart to whom God bids
it speak
a,dI-who heard but now all unaware
rhot bluebirds rapture thrilling on the air
Trnow its meaning is not far to seek;
n. no faint-hearted, fearful, once again
The Father sends message-not in vain.
Mary Bradley, in Harpers Bazar.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1893-04-27
SELECT SIFTINGS.

A great many fiue English gloves are
made of llama.
A bald headed religious sect in Russia
holds that hair is sinful.
In Finland and East Turkestan thun-
derstorms are wholly unknown.
Tartars of 1000 years ago preserved
only the thumb and toe nails of their
dead.
Mrs Abigail Houghton, of Scranton,
Penn, keeps about 200 pet sparrows in
her house.
Coffee is aiulterated with chicory;
and chicory with carrots, turnips and
mangelwurtzel.
Manganin is composed OF eighty-three
per cent copper four per cent. nickel
and thirteen per cent. manganese.
Robinson Crusoe's island j Juan Fernau-
dez, is inhabited by about sixty persons,
who attend to the herds of cattle that
Craze there.
1t is averred that the coolest winter
on record was that of 1435, when in
Germany people skated as late as the
middle of May.
A brass band in New London, Conn,
announces that it has received two new
dirges and is prepared to play at funerals
at the lowest figures.
Elongated ear lobes are considered
mark of beauty in Borneo. Girls with
this feature reaching down to their
elbows are not uncommon.
Perhaps the greatest of all nuggets OF
gold was taken from the Monumental
Mine, near Sierra Buttes, in 1866. 1t
was estimated to be worth $50, 900.
One of the largest forests in the world
stands on ice. 1t is situated between
Ural and the Okhotsk Sea, Siberia. A
we'll was recently dug in this region,
when it was found that depth OF 34O
feet the ground was still frozen.
No wonder the fish crop Is never
"short." The founder lays 1000, 900
eggs annually; several Others from
/. 0OC 900 to 5000, 600, while the tur-
bot is credited with depositing from
II, 900, 900 TO 100000 during each
breeding season.
In England naval courts-martial can
not sit after sunset. Recently in order
to finish trial without an adjournment
the presiding admiral, it is. said, issued
an order officially postponing sunset, and
the ships in the harbor kept their flags
flying after dark.
The oldest ornaments among the
household goods of the White House
are the two bronze candelabra that stood
on the ends of the mantel in the red
parlor. They are six feet tall, and were
presented to President Jackson during
his occupancy of the White House by
General Patterson.
A peasant plowing near the village of
Porcuna, in Spain, recently, turned up
an amphora filled with gold and silver
coins, all in good state of preserva-
ton. The gold coins are somewhat
larger than twenty-five cent piece, and
one side is the inscription: "Sabina Au-
gusta Hadriana, G. r. A." The figure
of Roman soldier is on the other side.
Although the submits of the Hima-
layas receive far more than the amount
of heat necessary to melt the snow that
falls on them, yet in spite of this the
snow is not melted. This is because the
heat received from the sun is thrown OIL |
into space so rapidly by radiation and
reflection that the sun fails to raise the
temperature of the snow above the melt
ing point.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1893-04-27
THE PATIEN 5 SEASONS.

How patiently the seasons bide their time!
No murmur from the bud that months
ago
Was ready. where the earth inclined, 70
blow;
The birds are happy in their chosen home.
No doubt there are commuuings meath the
snow,
And some bright eyes that never close N
sleep,
And some sharp ears that listen well ana
keep
Sweet hope alive in little hearts below.
Then let the winter wear itself away.
Borne thither on the breast OF freighted
rills;,
A dream of spring has touched the con-
stant hills,
And made the valleys patient of delay.
Mary A. Mason. in Youths Companion.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1893-04-27
TJTTS MORGAN'S BLIZZARD

TILTS MORGAN had
lived three winters
in Dakota without
once having seen a
blizzard. He had
come to have his
doubts about the ex-
istence of such a
thing. To be sure,
he often read in the
Eastern papers that a
Democratic messenger., 1893-01-07
Rare Relics Unearthed.

Four of the most remarkable rel
discovered have just been found in I
western Egyptian oasis of Theba a
sent to the Louvre in Paris for exhi
tion. They are plaster casts bus
These busis originated during the br
era Of prosperity at the close of the 81
ond and the beginning of the Third ct
tury of our time. They are not. as
would seem. detached pieces of statu
but are complete i'll themselves. TIL
are masks used for a special class
mummies. and like most of the Egg
tian curiosiiies come from the grave. I
departed members OF wealthy famil
were provided not only with sepulche
but with sort of arinor composed
several pieces. which completely meas
the dead body The feet We're thrI
into pocket shaped affair like {
riage foot warmer, and separate pie,
were made for chest and neck, as "
as the hair. with IA mask for the IA
which often rescmbled the features
the dead. st. Louis Post-Dispatch.