The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-14

time ago. when was IN 'iio rooiii
SOM, I land Frank Stanton, stranger
d D! in 20 sell him poem -,
galh" ,sitor read the first verse ana stan
tOn ehln'" Good VOC he said, "but the next
"NerI o,ter and be repeated 1t.
wrse y y roet looked surprised. He In
inc Nv Nv, tho examination of his poem,
ss,'S won" yreod the second verse
snd DC i'' ,s oood." commented Stanton,
'li"' ,'o 90 ON. Then he recited two
A. three verses to, neaid tho ostonish-
@eRrt those are mine said 'he as'onish-
@ 81 can't help it" replied Stanton
uqtis Is mind reading !. -
I rho follow walked of to tho elevator
inI the way down his talk could be
| heard - q >, Inn said
"a Ave-" ret he was plagiarist, and, after
A mns one of stanton poems, had tried
nan walked into my room one day
"a tossed ne slip Of paper
al "I ia ian little thing have just thrown
~ no said. "but if you think it is worth
sit is all right. a.. :.
" looked at it and found that 1t was
pl,ns lines TO Highland Mary
DI Rnt there are holder plagiarisms. Print
- steol proofshcets of new books ana try
to sell them - a.. oo,,u = roof
1t the Britannica and sell it for hun
dreds Of dollars.
One Of our most noted newspaper CORE
,rondents arpropriates entire pages from
spots and sells the matter as his own.
Sometimes a really bright man is led
,,,o crime of this kind, for which there
Il never any excuse,
A few years ago there was student at a
,outbern college whose literary gifts made
him shining light When n prize was
offered for certain essay, every body sup
pOsed that he would get It,
of all the students he was the one man
who was able to write 1t.
The appointed day came, and the prize
was awarded to new man, while the ex-
mission of the brilliant student was recon-
mended.
II seems that the fellow had shirked his
work and had stolen an article bodily from
Backwood.
Abig statesman came to me one day and
IN an offhand manner said that he would
like to have me get up the points for
notable public address. He was too busy,
he said, and was away from his library.
wrote M the matter in narrative style and
turned it over TO the great man. He ex-
pressed his satisfaction, and when he de-
lyered his speech it was my matter, word
for word He was very proud of it and
had it printed and sent it everywhere.
A young lawyer came TO me several
times to write speeches for him.
81 know how to deliver them," he said,
"but | can't compose them"
OF course l helped the young fellow out,
and in less than two years he was one Of
the leading lawyers of Georgia.
year or two ago Georgia daily offer
cd prize for the best poem.
young lady in South Carolina drew
the money and pocketed it, Her poem was
printed and then came the discovery that
she had stolen it,
The editor who had paid her wrote to
her about it, but she laughingly deflod
him. She had won the prize and received
the money, and that was the end of it with
her
One of the brightest men that ever lived
in Atlanta used to visit The Constitution
office and ask permission to furnish edito-
rial paragraphs. Finally he was given a
trial. He sent in dozen first class para
graphs, and the next day it was discovered
that he had copied all of them from George
D Prentice.
How can such things be explained
The average plagiarist seems to think
that he Is the only reader and has the only
book in the world.
When he Is exposed, he finds that he Il
surrounded by u world of reading people.
sometimes an exposure Is both ridicu
lous and sad. When Vice President Henry
wilson died, a southern literary weekly
started biographical sketch of him written
w the lady to whom he was engaged.
saw at a glance that 1t was stolen from
Macaulay's essay on Hampden and pub
nsned the parallel columns. The biograph
'cai sketch, of course, came to an untimely
Gnu, and the lady never appeared In thu
newspapers again.
=, now Is it that the plagiarists continue
their work.
.iere III Atlanta there are thousands o
cultured people who have read every lin'
,nat Is worth reading, and they cannot b,
deceived.
oteal an article from magazine printed
century ago, and somebody here In AT
ianta will locate it,
Even should the plagiarism escape de
lection here somebody will point it out II
we course of few days.
once upon time very bright journal
=, IN Atlanta thoughtlessly borrowed
column article.
lhe next day be was exposed by con
temporary.
Mhat are you going to do about itp'
asked friend
Nothing" was the reply.
III was the only answer. When a pla
s Is exposed, the culprit must seel
'e,ugein silence. There Is no other shelter
wallace ,., Putnam Reed in Atlanta Con
stitution.
Tea and Coffee.
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