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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-28
MITCHELL AND MACVEIGH.
They Meet to Endeavor to Adjust
Strike Differences.
ESPECIAL TO TIE FREE PREss.l

TSPEOIAL TO IBE REE hhSs'I
Washington Nov. 25.-The confer
ence between President Mitchell and
Wayne Macveigh..on proposition to
adjust the differences between miners
and operators was concluded at one
O'Clock. Little was dome this morn,
ing. Another conference was to be
held at two O'Clock and 1t is expected
an agreement will be reached.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-28
Correspondents Wanted.

The Free Press wants correspond.
emit in every town in Blue Earth
county where we have none. Write
for particulars. Address.
THE FREE PRESS PIG. CO.,
Mankato, Mimi.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-28
G. G. W. SOLD AGAIN.

According to New York dispatch
the Chicago Great Western has been
sold again-this time to the Chicago
g. North Western.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-28
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

Warranty deeds filed
Susie A. Preston to Fred Seefeld.
seL, nwA. sec. 20, Medo, for ~, $50.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-28
ON A PEACE MISSION.
[srEo1AI no zee FREE PnHss.l

London Nov. 25.-Colonial Secretary
Chamberlain started for Cape Town
today on conciliatory mission to the
burghers.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-28

The suit Of o. Odjard vs.. VIM. Irv-
ing and others will go to trial Friday
at 9 a. m. There are but six more
jury cases for trial besides this. and
one of these will probably be settled
The petit jury was excused until Q
m Fridav
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-28

The jurv at 4 80 p. m, was still
out Wednesday.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-11-28

The suit of William Paxton, respt.,
VS.. George Land, respt.. was called for
trial, but Mr.. Paxton did not put In
an appearance and the case was dis
missed for want of prosecution on mo-
tion of the defendant.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-21
Howard Pyle's Work.
Town and Country.

Town and Country.
Howard Pyle, whose art contributions to
literature have brought a lasting fame to
himself and delight to thousands of
readers. is generally acknowledged to be
the founder of new school of illustration,
and one critic of note has found in his
latest work, an allegory called 1.-The
Travels of the Soul,' to be printed in color
in the Christmas number of a leading
magazine, a quality similar to that of
Watts, the English painter. Mr.. Pyle was
born forty-nine years ago in Wilmington,
Del, where he still makes his home and
working place. Many of his pupils have
spread the doctrines of the masters art
broadcast. and the instruction of promis-
ing workers continues to be source of
keen enjoyment TO him. His industry may
be judged from a list of his books, which
includes The Rose of Paradise" 1.-The
Garden Behind the Moon" THE Merry
Adventures of Robin Hood" Pepper and
Salt" Within the Capes.' THE Wonder
Clock" Otto of the Silver Hand" "A
Modern Aladdin" Men of Iron" Jack
Ballister's Fortunes" Twilight Land to
say nothing of a large amount of magazine
sketches and miscellaneous Illustrations
His scope and variety are shown in his
peculiar style of black-and-white and in
color work and in his vital pen-and-ink
drawings.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-21

weeks gross receipts up TO 5000; 10 per
cent for the next 5000. Is per cent. for the
next 5000, 20 per cent. for the $2.Voo after
that and g per cent. for all over 900.
These figures vary somewhat, but they
may be taken a fair estimate OF the pay
of frst-class dramatists.
There is this difference between book
and play: A book may be hailed as a big
success. and for a year have enormous
sales. In two years IL is likely to- be forgot
ten and it's sales be nothing. A successful
play will run for two or three seasons, then
be taken up by the stock companies, where
IL will be handled for three or four years,
and finally fall into the hands of the innu-
merable repertoire companies. In this way
its life is stretched out for eight or nine
years, throughout which time ii is furnish
ing a good-sized income for the man who
wrote IL. / have never heard of a modern
author being paid a lump sum down for
book before he began ii. This is what we
do with the playwrights. however. few
years ago l wanted a play from Bronson
Howard and Brander Matthews. Before
they started work IL / paid them $500
Upon the completion of the manuscript
paid them an additional s.. 800. They were
in 5000. and at the end of five weeks after
! had produced the work was out in all
So, go.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-21
Novel Condensers.
Chicago Inter Ocean.

Chicago Inter Ocean.
There goes one of those condensers,"
said the publisher, pointing to a tall, slen-
der young fellow wearing glasses and with
a number of books under his arm. Ills
business is condensing novels, and when
a man becomes an expert at it he doesn't
have to look for work. This has been
very busy world for some time. There
are thousands OF people who want to
keep up with the novels of the day. but
haven't the time to read them as they arc
originally written. So there are hundreds
of readers and elocutionists who go about
reading condensed novels to literary cir
cles. clubs. church societies and private
families. The demand for readers for
private families is growing astonishingly.
The readers go to this house or that one
night a week, or possibly twice week
The head of the house invites in few
friends, or maybe he and his family have
the reading all to themselves. They don't
want continuous performance; they must
have at least one story an evening. liz
the stories they want are too long for one
evening, they must be cut down to fit the
time. That fellow who just walked past
tackled The Crisis little while ago. The
order was to cut the book down to two
hours. He found it took eight hours to
read it as 1t was written. 1t took him
over month working regularly a part or
every DAY or evening TO cut IL GOWN. Inen
the people who hired him made up their
minds that it must be shorter, so he had to
go to work to hack 1t down to one hour
and quarter. What do you think OF that?
He did it, although Ii was fearful JOB.
1t took him longer to cut off that last
forty minutes than it did to get rid OF the
first six hours.
1T requires more brains sometimes to cut
book down than it does to write it in the
first place Nothing of Importance must
be left out. All the strong features, the
pretty scenes, the amusing dialogue, and so
however, how little that is important is
cut out. IL you had read the original
Crisis and then heard the condensed story
you would have to cudgel your brain a lit
tie to make out exactly what Is missing
There's a knack about Ii, there is to
read the story carefully to get its general
effect. Then he very often reads 1t to
study the mechanism AT first reading he
has seen passages that may be dropped and
no one be much the wiser. On second
reading he takes out even more, and pretty
soon he has the thing cut down perhaps
half. Very likely he will now take copy
of the book and cut all the pages loose.
The pages he has marked out he throws
away and the fragments of pages he pastes
together to make the requisite number or
lines for page He knows just how many
minutes IL takes to read two pages-that Is,
both sides of the sheet. Counting up the
sheets, he finds the number of minutes
there still are in the slaughtered book.
They tell me II is really most engrossing
work. while IL is very fatiguing at the same
time That fellow who went into the
ferryboat just now is an enthusiast. He
makes far more money than many Of the
Honestly, I don't know but what he de-
serves it,"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-21

PHILADELPHIA Press.


In a recent symposium in an English
magazine two different authors who have
experienced two different sorts of popu-
larity express two different opinions upon
the question of popularity in fiction. The
first, Mr.. William LIE Quex, whose sensa-
tional novels have a wide reading both here
and abroad. advises the literary aspirant
for popular favor to study the public, find
what they want and then give it to them.
The second, Mr.. A. z. w. Mason, whose
Miranda of the Balcony was enjoyed by
the few as book and by the many as G
play, protests, on the other hand, that, in
his opinion, "popularity-and by that L
mean a genuine and lasting popularity-is
not to be obtained by perpetually and de-
liberately aiming at 1t"
Here, then, are two antipathetic views
on the same question from two men who
should certainly be qualified to form cor
rect opinion, and the truth seems to lie on
either side, according to the definition
which one gives the word popularity"
Yet, to take that word even in its broadcast
sense we are inclined to side with Mr.. Ma
son. However one may debase 1T, litera-
ture, in the last analysis, remains an art,
and no art lends itself to distortion for
the sake of popularity. Quite apart from
any consideration of their literary merit,
mately big sellers of recent years have
been more less in the nature of new
departures on the part of their authors
who, when they attempted to win second
popularity by another book modelled upon
the first, have generally failed.
However, as has been said, all depends
upon what is meant by popularity. A GER
tain sort of sensational story is always
sure to find a certain sort of large audi
ence, and conscientiously artistic one is
also sure of hearing. The only difference
is in the question of financial returns
Using the adjectives in the sense of the
ethics of art. the good novel and the bad
novel have this in common. that each is
assured a sale. Unfortunately, il Is the
bad novel that has, for the most part. the
larger sale, and that is the easier written
by the average man. Otherwise il Is a
matter of choice, and very simple affair
for writer of certain temperament to
do bad work for the sake of selling a few
extra copies.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-21
WOMAN AS CONTORTIONIST.
Marvellous Feat of Buttoning n Dress
I'm the Back Outdoes Man.
Washington Post.

washington Post.
Il was reading somewhere the other
day." said the man with the concave
countenance, that the reason why a girl
can't spin a top like a boy Is that her arms
and shoulders are not built right for that
kind OF work. Maybe it's for this same
reason that a woman can't throw a rock
at a hen without breaking a window; that
she can't drive a nail straight, and so on
But want TO tell you of one little stunt
that woman can do with her arms that
NO nan could ever get away with. don't
cure ii he was eight different kinds of
contortionist. That's buttoning one of
these here waists that's got the buttons
eewed on the back.
I'D be willing to make a gamble and
give 5 TO l for any amount up to two
months pay, that the he-thng doesn't live
and breathe that could button a shirt up
the back. surprising shirts were built that
way, without going mad and running
amuck and slaughtering a few innocent
people. I've often watched my wife get
away with that job. and every time / see
her do 1t the feeling comes over me that.
after all, compared with women, men are
lot OF no-account, impatient, unenduring
skates. Why, say, can't even button the
thing standing behind her with both hands
free. i tried IL one evening not long ago,
when we were in hurry to make the the
alter, and made the dismallest- kind OF a
hash Of 1t. l won't say that there were
OF a black-headed pin, on the back of that
waist. but there sure were a whole lot of
them.
" Look a-here.' said /, chestily III just
do that little job for you. and maybe We'll
get TO the show in time to catch a view of
the second act, anyhow
Then i went at IL. After / had succeed
ed In buttoning all OF three buttons within
the space or I'VE minutes my wife drily re-
marked that she didn't fancy / was making
much progress and then she began TO eat
up those buttons with her fingers herself.
It's funny to watch 'em do that. They can
begin either at the top or bottom-it doesn't
make particle OF difference to them. /
don't know anything about the top-spin-
ming OF the female. but i do know that
woman's arms must be placed mighty free
and loose in their sockets 10 permit OF her
reaching back that way and feeling around
for those teenchy buttons and slipping
them into the buttonholes without ever get
ting red I'm the face or trying 10 kick the
cat or doing anything like that.
IT know that IL / had job like that to
do I'm hurry I'd be biting chunks out OF
the Lureau looking-glass. Women may not
be def in few little things that there's
no occasion for them TO be deft I'm, but
VIXEN IL comes 10 turning flip-haps into
THEM clothes. no matter how idiotically the
sans may be contrived and manufactured,
they're there or Whereabouts with both lit
tie tootsie-woOtses. and for patience and
szlf-control under the most horrible dress
ing difficulties they make their husbands
look like nickel's worth of borax in
busted bag
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-21
NOT WITHOUT HUMOR.
Fables of the Chinese Contain Many
High Moral Truths.

New York Evening Post.
There is pleasing humor in most Chinese
fables which renders them highly readable,
and in the application serves as a sugar
coating to the pill This humor crops out in
the very first fable of which the Chinese
have any record. 1t is to be found in the
Histories of the Contending States"
where certain prince uses it as an Illus
traton of the need of wholesome unity
among those who, though entertaining in
ternecne feuds, have cause to combine
against common foe. "A mussel was
basking on the bank of river so says
this fable, when a big bittern came by.
Seeing IL move, the fowl put its head on
one side and watched il. Then il drew near
and pecked at the mussel but that willy
shell fish clapped its jaws together like a
trap and held the birds beak fast. Then
said the bittern: If you don't open to-day
and If you don't turn me loose tomorrow
some one will find dead mussle lying
about here To which the mussle made
reply: If l don't open to-day and If / don't
release you tomorrow they will see dead
bittern holding up his toes on the beach.
At this point fisherman came by and
seized the pair of them"
Most Chinese fables point a wholesome
moral, nor is ii difficult to see the applica-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-21
FAMOUS, BUT DIED POOR.
sListen to the Mocking Bird" Paid It's
Composer Only So.

Philadelphia Record.
Septimus Winner, the author of Listen
to the Mocking Bird" was a poor man
when several weeks ago he died. Nor is it
strange that Mr.. Winner died poor. for
S. was all he made out of Listen to the
Mocking Bird the most popular song ever
written in America. The publishers TO
whom he sold the song, however cleared
from this charming melody tremendous
sum-a sum estimated all the way from
$780, 900 to $3,5O0.00O.
Mr. Winner was the author. too. of the
"Ten Little Injuns'' song, which is as we'll
known among children as the story of
"Bluebeard" or the Adventures of Robin
Hood" He sold the "Ten Little Injuns"
to the same publishers who purchased the
.,Mocking Bird" and he got $40, or dollar
an Injun.
Mr. Winner was all his life Philadel-
phia music teacher and music dealer. He
was seventy-sx years old when he died.
He was twenty-six years old when he
wrote Listen to the Mocking Bird" The
story of the writing of the song follows:
Fifty years ago the Winners had a music
store down town. One of their helpers was
Richard Milburn, young colored man.
who did odd jobs for them and who was
called "Whstling Dick because he whis-
tied so beautifully. Dick also had a fine
voice. He wished there was some song he
could both sing and whistle-now bar Of
singing, now a bar of washington he
thought such song would make him popu-
lar with the girls.
I'll tell you what I'll do, Dick. I'll write
you song" Mr.. Winner said.
1.-The kind l wants?' said Dick. 'The
kind 1 can sing some and whistle some?"
That's the kind"
And that evening Mr. Winner sat down
and in two hours composed both the words
and music of Listen to the Mocking Bird"
1t was fifty years ago he did this, yet the
song is as popular to-day as it was on it's
first appearance-the best selling song,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-21
BookIovers' Lane.

Old houses on a quiet street,
Renowned in story and in song,
Where quaint and queer booklovers meet;
Old houses on a quiet street.
In mossied close and dim retreat.
Where come no rumors Of the throng.
Old houses on quiet street,
Renowned in story and in song.
Here lives the Venerable Bede-
Caecmon and Wyclif yonder dwell.
At gray Threshold one may read:
Here lives the Venerable Bede;
And. II he please. or hath he need,
Strange elder names he still may spell.
Here lives the Venerable Bede-
Caedmon and Wyclif yonder dwell.
Geof Chaucer, Spenser, Rabelais-
All the good fellows Of old time
II one is passing down that way,
Geof Chaucer, Spenser, Rabelais
VIII cry hail fellow, bid him stay
And spend an hour in song and rhyme.
Geof. Chaucer, Spenser. Rabelais-
All the good fellows OF old time.
-R0sfon Evening Transcript
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-21
Science and Fiction.

Bliss Perry, in "A Study of Prose Fiction"
The scientific temper. untransmuted by
artistic feeling. has never been of value in
any of the fine arts; the application OF sci
entific methods 10 fiction has time and
again crowded the creative Imagination on
the field to make room for the documents
There is OF course. endless variety In
nature and in human nature. but an endless
succession OF realists, working merely by
scientifically accurate observation and rec
ord, can never produce a great novel any
more than an endless succession of pho
tographers can produce a great picture.
They can give us a marvellous array OF
facts, but fact Is not fiction. Science cares
for facts: art, in the high sense. for facts
writer OF fiction uses facts to explain
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-21
The Danger.

Washington Star.
There are good trusts and bad trusts"
said the hopeful man.
Yes" answered the cherries citizen.
but the bad ones are accommodating so
much profit and power that I'm afraid II
won't be long before the good trusts are
led into temptation"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-21
simple Enough.
Philadelphia Press.

Philadelphia Press.
Borem--I want TO interest you I'm f.
nanciel scheme this morn
Merchant-Not this morning. i haven't
time.
Borem-Why. II won't take you a minute.
AL you've got 10 do Is 10 lend me a dollar.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-21

truths. his work is like the dead iron be-
fore il Is carbonized into steel, like prose
uncrystalliZed into poetry.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-06-25
JOHN SIDDOWAY DEAD.
Ex-CouucIman and Well known Citi-
zen Died This Morning.

John slddoway. well known and
highly respected citizen of Salt Lake.
died at his home In this city at 1880
this morning at the ripe age OF 6S years.
Mr.. Siddoway has been alling for some
months past and last January under
went an operation for rupture, which
was thought to 6e-successful Later
however he caught cold and from that
day to the time he passed away this
morning he slowly sank.
Mr. Sl1doway was well known In Salt
Lake circles, having come to Utah from
England In the early days. For a num-
Der OF years he worked at his trade of
q carpenter In The employ OF the Utah
Central. Shortly after the city and
county building was finished he Sc
cured the position Of janitor, In which
capacity he became well known TO the
legal fraternity and others who had oc-
CASTOR 10 visit the building. During the
years Of 1898 and 1899 he represent re
First precinct IN the city council. hay.
ing been elected on the Democratic tic
ket. At the expiration of his term he
again ran on the Democratic ticket for
his precinct. but was defeated He then
returned TO his duties as chief janitor
Of the city and county building until
the change Of administration. Mr.. Sid
doway also ran for the council on the
Citizens ticket some ten years ago. He
leaves several children TO mourn his
death Funeral services viii be held
from the First ward meeting house on
Sunday at an hour to be announced la
ter.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-06-25
Depcw on Kings Illness.

New York, June Ex-senator Depew,
who is In London, compared the effect
OF the news Of the kings illness here
with the effect OF the news Of the as
sasslnaton OF President Mckinley upon
Buffalo last year, says the London cor
respondent OF the Herald.
1T Is an exact parallel in many re-
spects With the incidents al Buffalo. al
though the element OF tragedy Is want
ing" said he. 81 was In Buffalo at the
time, and the city was In Just such a
state Of exultation ana exaltation as
was London.
Looking out Of my window Just when
the news was being given out I Wit
messed dramatic sight There was
tremendous congestion OF persons and
vehicles In Pail Mall, which LASTED ful.
ly Is minutes.
Suddenly news vender was seen.
who held aloft huge poster OF one OF
the newspapers bearing the words.
Coronation postponed; king very ill
In a moment the whole crowd had
dissolved and soon the street was oc-
cupied only by ordinary traffic.
"One thing that strikes one most
forcibly at this time Is the immense
personal popularity OF the king. Not
a single dlscordant note and have
talked with many distinguished men. I
have heard the general chorus OF sor-
row for the kings illness, and / am
sure this is shared by every right
thinking person no matter OF what ma.
tionality"
This is very disastrous calamity
which will touch the hearts OF people
al over the world" said Cen. Joseph
Wheeler.
IAN people have deep sympathy for
those who. just about receiving great
honors, are suddenly Frustrated. tn,
entire world hopes for the kings speedy
recovery.
Whatever may be the coruse OF the
disease, the gaiety of London must
u seems to me, Immediately cease. The
English people are very liberal 10
Americans In entertainment. and all
the expressions we hear in London IN
regard 10 Americans are OF the most
pleasing character.
~ am sure Americans can Join in
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-06-25
REPUBLICAN
CONVENTION.
County Committee in Session To-
day at Kuutsford'
DISCUSSING THE ELECTION
or I5I Delegates TO state Convention
To be HeId In ogden ON
August ~.

The Republican county committee IL
IN session this afternoon at the Knuts-
ford hotel. discussing the matter OF the
election OF l5l delegates to the state
convention TO be held In ogden on Aug,
II. The places Of holding the primaries
Tor the election Of the delegates, wheth-
or in each precinct or In each voting
district, VIII be decided upon. II Will
also be decided which election figures
viii be used as basis OF the appor-
tionment Of delegates whether those OF
the Wells Moyle Sutherland. King, or
the Justices OF the supreme court re.
turns.
II is understood that no definite ac-
ton VIII be taken In regard TO tn coun-
w convention as II II too far away, but
the convention viii be discussed in a
general way The meeting OF today was
called TO order at 3 o'clock by Chairman
Eichncr.
The members Of the committee are
as follows First precinct A, II. ADJ
kinson, p, A. Dix; Second precinct, ].
H. Preece, w r. Jones, Jr.; Third pre-
cnct j. II, Hasam. II. NJ. Mathews;
Fourth precinct, 7. Il. Harper, 7. w.
Whitley; Fifth precinct, II. w. Smith.
+ H. McGurrin; Bingham, c. II. Rob-
efts; West Jordan. Il, l., Cutler; MUIR
ray ]. W Cahoon; Mil Creek, G. 81.
Boyce; Sugar, S. J.. Stookey, ]. u. Eli
drcdge, Jr., is secretary.