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The trend of literary publications in
this country partakes of the spirit of
the times and is almost purely CONNER
cial i'll its purpose, character, and adj
vertising. The authors are not of the
drst rank and some of them Of no rank
at all, so far as past success Is con-
cerned, yet by skillful advertising and
commercial methods furore is started
for their mechanically constructed
books and they reap temporary but
large profits. 1t is another popularity
of the book-making of the day that it
is purely initiative. A book following
certain special line makes a success.
Straightway books of that kind flood
the market. New writers spring up in
all directions and even the old writer's
catch the contagion and leave their
regular field of work for the speciality
which is the fad. Take the historical
romance, for instance. One successful
book of this kind was followed by
scores, among them Richard Carvel,"
when Knighthood Was in Flower"
''In the Palace Of the King" 1.-THE Car
dinaPs Snuff Box" Under the Red
Robe" Janice Meredith" and numer-
Gus others, running up into the hun
dreds. They are not only crowding the
book stalls, but flooding the stage in
dIamatized form. The historical rom
ance is now somewhat on the wane.
Readers are growing tired of story after
story constructed substantially on the
same lines, with the same conventional
hero and heroine, and the same kind of
adventures, but other fads are prompt
ly on hand. Two of these are we'll I'M
der way at present. 1t was only neces-
Sary for Mr.. Westcott's David Harum''
| to prove a success to set other writer's
at work making Yankee character
sketches. Irving Bachelor gives us
''Eben Holden" Charles Sherlock
Your Uncle Lew" and Edwin A Dix
"Old Bowen's Legacy" These are only
the forerunners, but they are all sue
cessful from the commercial stand
point. The portraits of the authors
stare at us in posters and magazine
covers contain startling arrays Of fig
ures running into the thousands for
each first edition. Men who were never
suspected of literary turn of mind are
launched by the publishers as success,
full novelists. Another fad just begin
ming to rage is the love letter. That
adroit literary fake, 1.-THE Love Letters
of an Englishwoman," set the pace
Victor Hugo's love letters have just
been published, also 1.-The Love Letters
of LIAR" "Bismarck's Love Letters
and Another Englishwoman's Love
Letters" are in press. LIE Caffeine has
published 1.-The Love Letters of the
King Though the title is misleading)
and 'Napoleon's Love Letters and
"Canova's Love Letters to Nine Reca.
mier' are announced. To keep up with
these fads is exhausting, if not impos
sible. In such an emergency there is
comfort in the words of the last arti
Gle written by Charles Dudley Warner
without special anxiety, then, to keeI
pace with all the ephemeral in litera
ture, lest we should miss for the mo-
ment something that is permanent, we
can rest content in the vast accumula
ton of the tried and genuine that the
ages have given us. Anything that
really belongs to literature to-day we
shall certainly find awaiting us to-mor
| rOUo
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The nenefit OF the Doubt.

Don't you think some of our Con-
gressmen waste great deal of their
timer
WELL" answered Senator Sorghum,
with great deliberation, you ought not
to be too hasty in judging. Unless you
look through a mans private ledger,
how are you going to know whether he
has been wasting his time or notY'-
Washington Star.
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The Family Silver.

Fer the lands sake" said the wom-
an in the blue Mother Hubbard as she
fastened the clothesline to the division
fence, what do you think of them
Joneses telling around that the burglars
got in their house an stole the family
silver? Family silveri Huhr'
Its so, though" said the woman in
the next lot. ''They had dollar an a
quarter piled on the mantelpiece fer the
grocery bill, an it was all in silver
indianapolis Press.
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An Innovation.

81 notice." said Bronco Bob, that
you make a rule at political gatherin'
to have all the speakers close friends
an partners lined up on the platform
with him.
Eyes; he is usually accompanied by
some of the distinguished men Of his
own party"
''Well, it's a mighty good idea In
Crimson Gulch, when a man has any
thing to say, he jes' gets up on the keg
an takes his chances. But I'll have
the boys adopt your way. 1t keeps the
opposition from maxim a man redick-
locus by comm up behind an gettin'
the drop on him while he is bowin'
and scrapin' to the folks in 'front.'
Washington Star
Holbrook argus., 1901-07-20

The Governor of North Carolina is Of
the opinion that lynching can be stop
ped only by public opinion. Nonsense?
A sheriff who knows his duty and is
not afraid of it, and who is backed up
by few determined deputies, has it in
bis power to overawe the average mob.
AS for public opinion, there's plenty of
1t already.
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II Cured Her.

NO" said the man in the mackin-
tosh, my wife doesn't give away any
of my old clothes or sell them to the
ragman any more. 1 cured that habit
effectually once"
"How was thatf" they asked him.
"When fould she had disposed of a
coat 1 hadn't worn for several weeks 1
told her there was letter in it she had
given me to mail the last time had it
on. And that was no lie, either" he
added, with deep satisfaction.
Holbrook argus., 1901-07-20

A statistician puts it that Alaska has
only eleven-hundredths of an inhabitant
to the square mile. OF the many pic
lures of arctic desolation this one of a
lonely fraction loking vainly across the
bleak snow drifts for its other eighty
nine one hundredths is perhaps the
most affecting.
Holbrook argus., 1901-07-20

1t is asserted in England that King
Edward intends to a great extent to
abolish the giving Of peerages and
other honors for purely political and
party services. Pulls on peerages may
sometime depend solely on merit, and
there will probably not be so many hol-
low titles
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Bathing in Wine.

Malmsey is again used in France for
bathing purposes. 1t takes a hundred
quarts of wine for a bath, the French
character of which Is shown by the
fact that the wine is poured back into
the barrel after use, and is employed
over again for the next bath.
Holbrook argus., 1901-07-20

In Switzerland a telephone in a pri-
vate house costs $3.50 a year. The
telephone people will retort, of course,
that the expense of wires in Switzer-
land isn't so great as it is over here.
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The young bride who reads with
proud thrill "she swept up the aisle on
her fathers ARM never thinks of the
after days when she will sweep up the
kitchen and dining-room floors and not
get even a mention in the society col
umnS
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The snonge and Its uses.

Two little girls with snub roses and
public-school voices stood in front of
the window Of a Third avenue drug
store yesterday afternoon.
"Myw said one. Look at the
sponges! Most a thousand of 'em.
What dyer s'Dese they use 'em all for?
didn't think they was SO many states
in the world" The other little girl
looked at her companion with whitening
scorn.
Don't yer know" she shifted con-
temptuously, that windows has to be
washed?-New York Commercial Ad-
vertiser.
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No FIatterer.

''This," said the man who had just
moved into the neighborhood, sis one
of my own drawings"
"Ah," said the visitor, who hadn't
taken any particular fancy to him,
''did you draw it in a raffle?
Holbrook argus., 1901-07-20

Several Americans at Manila went
down to Borneo to look at the equator,
but it was found that the British had
wound their section Of it up on a big
spool and refused to part with it at any
nrice.
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A Pennsylvania woman who says she
has lived very happily with four hus-
bands has taken a fifth. Marriage
seems to be a great success with her,
but the vote of the husbands has not
been polled.
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Husband wonder why it is that all
the misers we read of are old bache-
lors?
Wife-Oh. married misers are so COM
mon they are not worth mentioning.
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An Earnest worshinner

Dashaway-Miss Galloway took me
aside yesterday and wanted to know
my honest opinion of you.
Cleverton-I hope, old man, that Won
gave me clever send-offi
Certainly. 1 told her that you never
made love to a girl In your life that
you didn't mean It"
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Joakley-Well, well, the greed of
these policemen!
Coakley-What's the matter now?
Joakley-Why, haven't you heard
about this new Copper t?-Phila-
delphia Press.
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When a man complains because his
meals are not ready on time, his wife
blames the woman caller who stayed
so long, and whom she followed clear
to the front gate begging her not to go
SO soon
Holbrook argus., 1901-07-20

Country school teachers in Illinois
are to be charged with the rather big
task of convincing their pupils that it
Isn't worth while to run away from the
Holbrook argus., 1901-07-20

Some men devote too much time to
talking it over" You can't get along
If you do nothing but talk it over"
Holbrook argus., 1901-07-20

1t is a little surprising to learn that
Japan is after such small game as rats,
when everybody thought she was load
ed for bear.
Holbrook argus., 1901-07-20

Every time a new worm appears to
poster mankind, it is more luck for the
birds, which are already the luckiest
things in creation.
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Some women, when they talk gossip,
have the intense look in their eyes that
distinguishes a miser when he counts
his money.
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Reuben-I suppose Sal Whlfnetree is
all tn world tew yew, Josh?
Josh-Wal, no; but she's all 1 want
Nv it-forty dern good acres and
peach orchard Puck.
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Profitable Poetry.

Bobbs-There goes a fellow who got
ST. 900 for a spring poem.
Dobbs-Lucky fellowI
Bobbs-Yes, it was a poem to adver-
tise q car spring.-Baltimore American.
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Depends on the Doctors Bill

Brown-That was lovely basket of
fruit you were carrying home last
night, Jones. How much did 1t cost
you?
Jones-I don't know. The doctor is
still at the house.
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If there's a strike against the new
billion-dollar trust, it's a pretty big
contract to polish off all that steel.
Holbrook argus., 1901-07-20

Some men think their wives are jeal
GUS when they are only Disguised.
Holbrook argus., 1901-07-20

Compressed air for house cleaning is
spoken of as the latest. Well, that may
be new-the compressed part of it.
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HUMOR OF THE WEEK
STORIES TOLD BY FUNNY MEN
OF THE PRESS.

Odd, Curious and LauShaDle Pnases
of Human Nature Graphically Por-
trayed by Eminent Word Artists of
Our Own Day-A Budget of Fun
Farmer-See here, you! You remem-
Der putting two lightning rods on my
barn last spring, didn't you? Well, that
barn was struck six weeks after and
burned down.
Peddler-Struck by lightning?
at was"
Gin the daytimeY'
mo; at night"
"Must'a' been dark night, wasn't
it,"
eyes; dark as pitch"
Lanterns burnin'Y'
"What lanternsP'
Didn't you run lanterns up 'em dark
nights?"
"Never heard O. anything like that"
"Well, if you didn't know enough to
keep your lightning rods showin' you
needn't blame me. G-langw
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Left.

Wylkins-Did you ever run for Officer
Watkyns-Yes.
Wylkins-What luck?
Watkyns-The Office ran about twice
as fast as did.-Somerville Journal
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A NOTED CHURcHMAN.
Ri. Rev. William b. Bond, Archbishop
and Metropolitan of Canada.

and MetropoIItan OF Nahauu'
Bishop Bond of Montreal was select
ed by the house of bishops of the
Church of Eng nd in Canada to sue
coed Archbishop Lewis as metropoli-
tan. He will hereafter be known as
lord archbishop of Montreal and metro
politan of Canada, having jurisdiction
over the territory from the western
limits of Ontario to the Atlantic
Ocean. Archbishop Lewis, who has
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Onr Railroad Kings.

ga railroad president and a United
States Senator were talking about gov
eminent ownership of railroads.
81 believe said the Senator, that
1t would be a good idea for this govern
ment to buy and operate all the rail-
roads in the United States
"'Well,' replied the railroad presi-
dent, smiling significantly, 'ff the gov
eminent has the money to pay for two
hundred thousand miles of railroad,
with an aggregate capitalization OF
nearly S5,OOO,OOO,OOO, 1 can point out
the shop where most Of the goods can
be bought
"'The shop?' echoed the Senator, in.
quiringly.
That is what it amounts to, Sena
tor. There are seven or eight men that
control all the railroads of the United
States, and most of them can be found
in New York City on any business
day.
"'Who are they?' the Senator asked
eagerly.
"Propounded in Wall street, or IL
any assemblage of well-informed rail
road men, this question will invariably
elicit mention Of these names: J. Pier
pom Morgan, E. II. Hartman, William
Rockefeller, James ]. Hill, William X
Vanderbilt, George J. Gould, Jacob H
Schiff, A. J. Cassatt." -Ainslee's Maya
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Inneexitx of Ouakers.

The remarkable longevity of the
members of the Society Of Chosen
Friends in Great Britain has been fully
sustained during the last year, the aver
age age at death in the United King
dom, from to 100 years, being 81 years
Z months and days. Two women
members died over 100 years old.
Holbrook argus., 1901-07-20

Whenever a New York man gets in
sane he wants to flirt with Helen Gould,
but this may be mere coincidence.
Holbrook argus., 1901-07-20

We often wonder if anyone ever real
~ liked lettuce
The Wichita daily eagle., 1901-05-31

Little Mildred lives in KenwoOd ana IS
IN the habit of playing with Ethel. whose
father breaches TO one OF the most fash
ionabIe congregations on the South Side.
This gentleman has the proud right TO at
tach y. j.. TO his name, so everybody
but his daughter calls him doctor"
One day last week Mildred ran over to
the ministers 5 house, and. finding Ethel,
asked if her father was at home.
''Wen, want to see him right away" +"
the little girl said, when she learned that
the reverend gentleman was busy.
What's the trouble?' asked Ethels
mother. who overheard the two children
talking.
L must see the DOCTOR" Mildred said,
and it's a hurry case. Nobody else
will do"
After further appeals and additional
declarations Of the presence Of an ener-
gencv the child was taken into the min
ister's study. where, without waiting to
be asked for an explanation, she cried:
"Oh doctor, my Kittens awful sick.
and won't you please come right away
and do something for IT.
Il have frequently been called to ad-
minister comfort TO dying sinners" the
doctor added, after telling the story, but
that was the only time anybody ever
picked me out 10 attend 70 the case of
sick cat"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1901-05-31

the old swimming hole play threeod-cat when they
ought to have been splitting kindling.
We Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan one debt Of gratitude
amid the other uncouned debts owe him-for having
been rich nobody draw from his career
the weasome moral about the superior advantages of the
poor boy. That moral is very popular among who
keep most Of the boys and their fathers too
poor that greedy few may be rich.
But success-what wins IU2
Health. Of course is held to be prime essential but
Andrew Jackson wretchedly broken health during
all his political career. Parkman literary triumphs
despite the protests of physique and falling eye
sight while Milton wholly blind he wrote his
greatest poem.
Education? Useful of course; but Lincoln the rail
splitter further any college bred men his
day Mr. schwab who has just ordered $4,000 private
car Of the little economies Of the Steel Trust went
to work when most boys are going to school
Piety? We are apt to laugh the suggestion nova
days but in the times Of our fathers it was only the good
church boys who became rich judges congress
menhe most priced of earthly honors in the books
time But today find Jim" Keene laying down
the rule that all bad and reveIlng in millions
meanwhile
Probably if by success we mean-as most Of the world
means-the accumulation OF money, the requirement
Of power both any Of effort and Of moral deteora
ton these the qualities essential to its attainment:
Complete seIfshness.
Mental concentration on the one end sought
shrewdness. sefconfdence and unaagging industry.
man possessing all these traits of character would
bring the world to his feet Nothing could check
him. unless his despotism Russia were tenn
pered by assassination Happily SUCH if
he exists it is in subordinate and inconspicuous
place the business community where his genius is for
the time concealed was Napoeons in his obscure days
in Corsica great financial fugres possess many
of these qualities but all subject to human
weakness that thep temper them some more amabe
quality. Benevolence, for example is common among
them-even Russell Sage has been giving advice quite
lavishly Of late.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1901-05-31
on the &C 90 sought.
SCHOOL EDUCATION IN ENGLAND.

While It is not likely that the Salisbury government
to do anything serious popular education recent
discussions in parliament have brought strkngy the
baekwardness in this regard Of England as compared
with the rest Of the civilized world says the New York
Evening Post England releases the school child earlier
and at best edcte him fewer years. than any other
ton of the first class An English child may leave school
at the age of twelve and longer entitled
cation after the age Of fifteen In Germany average
for the different provinces children must attend school
till sixteen; in the United States till fifteen That is the
American and German child has advantage over the
English Of from two to three years Of school life At the
other end the disparity is striking In Germany
all children may claim the privilege Of free education
years longer than in Engano in the United States
longer In France everybody knows. education
is absolutely free from the primary school to the
sy In 1868 Matthew Arnold ventured the prophecy that
within quarter Of century there would be minister Of
education in England, and free secondary education He
was hopeful The problem remains about what
his time England rested content with partial meas
for primary education while other nations and Scot
land even have steadily advanced towards weordered
educational system. There triumph store for the
ministry which wiz much England But that min
istry is not Lord Salisburys.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1901-05-31
TIE lest.

(From the Youth s COmpanion-)
The recent combination OF the Publish
ers association to prevent, II possible,
the cutting in the prices OF books, has re-
vived an old story told at the expense OF
Mark Twain. One Gay, while Mark was
connected with a publishing house. be
went into a book store. and picking up q
volume. asked the price. He then sug-
gested that as a publisher be was enti-
tied 20 50 per cent discount To this the
clerk asseuted.
As I am also an author said Mark,
it would appear that am again en1-
tied 20 So per cent discount
Again the clerk bowed
And as a personal friend q the pro-
prietor. he modestlT continued i pre-
sumo that you VIII allow me the usual
o. per cent discount
Another bow from the salesman
''Well,' drawle5 the unpiushing huulor-
ist. under these CONDITIONS tnlfA
may as wen take the book WHAT'S the
The clerk took out his pencil and ag-
ured industTiouslv. Then ne SAID With
the greatest obsequiousness
las near as 1 can calculate, we owe
you the book and about th.rts'-s-Fe1 and
oue-half cents Can asai1-
"D.d you trump ny ace dear7'' asked
Nr. Msekton. who was rs vife.s partner
GO whist
Il ala. she re5olaed. stsrniy- What
%
= merely inquired O. relieve ~ Hilr1-
De answered. wlta a ge1t-- sIn-le g Is
q rreat cor7f1rr 20 know yoD tr-uped g.
II auv one else Rad grllmIei q, yo1
know. We should have lest the trick
II haven't mu-h use for Bilths-siy.'
SAID SHE rr1ud rara
-Eghr asked fhs proud mann
- listened to him fo- - nolr zocaT
while he told ne atouz What h-s osrF
said. cr tired - say. ans F1st e. was
ebollt ~ gel him ahout ours ne iett ~
sarl-- rr.t a. has IL c1sch 6 train
eTsh1r asked che tsscaer. cansti-
tgtcs tr1s greatness
know. IttIs RoesTt Ezrrieslly an
sEerei lts getting i-e-ir1 - f-Eae4-
dert Harper 81 uzss s1eeEh = tl=
sr1aezts q tEs Cnlvsrslty & CnsrzSe
The Wichita daily eagle., 1901-05-31
49, ElRE RorH o. rHEM.

Tt is always dangerous in America to resign IN pique
Roscoe Conkling demonstrated that McLaurin and Till
man may prove again W F. Curtis says in letter that
both may be retired Senator McLaurin Wash
ngon and seems to be confident of success the senator
al contest in South Carolina says Curtis but the
time he says that he would regret his own re-
trement he could finally dispose Of Tman. which indi-
Gates the bitter personal feeling between the men.
Tnan realizes that McLaurn represents growing sen
ment which he wants to crush possible and to
those who know his disposition it is not necessary to say
that the coming campaign viii be unprecedented in sensa-
tonal features Some of the cooeheaded politicians in
South Carolina already predicting that the people will
consider the fight altogether personal and decide to
retire both Of the contestants and elect
their places Five six candidates have already ap-
peared and dispatch from Columbia says that Governor
0IcSweeney viii announce himself as candidate as soon
he returns from Chattanooga where he has gone oa an
Official eIrand."
The Wichita daily eagle., 1901-05-31
ALONG THE KANSAS NILE.

The city assessor at Topeka reports
that he found 3so69 people in the town
The district court at ottawa has de-
cided that justices of the peace cannot
| act as collection agents.
It is claimed that after the wheat har-
vest begins in Texas It travels north al
| the rate OF twenty miles q day.
The State Board of Railroad Commits
sioners have ordered 1900 new maps OF
! Kansas, which are badly needed.
H. W. Young. editor of the Populist at
/ Independence, advises Populists TO dis
I band and enter the Democratic party.
! Swan. Of the State Board OF Health.
! says that in twenty days al the small
/ pox viii have disappeared from Kansas.
! Ora Lowther. an Emporia girl, recently
i drowned herself May Johns broOded
/ over the tragic end of her acquaintance
and hanged herself in the barn.
The picture Of home which is TO be
used at the head of the Populist ticket
as a party emblem, is from a photograph
/ Of a suburban home IN Wichita, taken
| By Judge Babb.
Mark Twain says that the St Louis
exposition is likely TO raise Missouri 3
pride IN itself, and he adds incidentally
that there is room for It between here
and the zenith.
William Barrieklovs OF Coneyville Is
dead. He came TO Kansas IN 1855; was
in Quantrelrs raid; was connected with
the Herald Of Freedom and formerly
lived at Baldwin.
Helen Gould recently gave 5oo volumes
TO the Cawker City library. Helen Gould
has warm spot in her heart for Kansas
There are six men in the county JAN at
Leavenworth waiting trial for murder.
In some sort OF a local campaign in
Topeka. Phil Eastman and Tom Ander-
son are candidates, and they have char
tered a street Ger and viii run about the
town delivering speeches from the rear
platform
Mort Albsugh. in his address 10 the
Kansas bankers, told them TO keep their
eyes peeled for the coming of hard times
kansas got an awful whack a few years
ago, and she reminds herself OF the smart
about once a year for policyrs sake
Mexico Is trying 20 sell rev issue of
bonds in Kansas. They are payable IN
gold and bear 8 per cent interest. The
Kansas bankers regard them as good
Heavens. Think Of Kansas being a cred
itor state 20 a foreign nation. Think of
Us being the Money Power ourseIvesi
Mont Williams. OF the central commit
tee o. the ProhlbltioEists. il making
bid for the Populists 10 come into the
Prohibition party. But they VIII 60 no
such thing. Think o. the vote PETER.
the good cid soul. received when he ran
as the Proh-bltionlsts' candidate Tor gov
ernor.
I'd Howe says when mother
breaks a dish or ursets sonnet hing. all
The chldren scream Wen y had
done that, what would YOU ssy Bu1 70
"a realty worse than that. When fhe
children break thing. it is aEswsrc-
ness. Ehen mother breaks somethi1E tf
is unfortunate