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AUTHORS EARNINGS.
Writers of Books Look Carefully After
Their Financial Interests.

Jeanette Glider in Chicago Tribune.
The spirit OF the age-which il unaues-
tionably the making of money-has taken
hold of the author completely a it has
of the business man. In old times an au-
thor had his publisher-a firm that pub
thought Of changing his publisher than he
did OF changing was going 10 say his
wife-but. to make it more emphatic, will
say his skin. In England il has always
been common for an author TO have sew
eral publishers, but here IL was unheard OF
till booming and record-breaking estab-
lished themselves as important factors in
the book businessman money. OF course,
the ultimate end of all things.
Nowadays author flies from one pub
Usher TO another with as little concern as a
bird that flies from tree TO tree. He goes
for the best terms, the lOudest advertising.
and-serial rights. Serial rights in a novel
bring an author anything from $3.50 TO
$4,000. Rudyard kiDling got $4,000 for
serial rights i'm kim" Mrs. Humphrey
Ward $4,000 for serial rights i'm Sir George
TrcsSady. As far as Mrs Wards pub
fishers were concerned this was more
money TO pay than Mt. Kipling's $4,000, for
they shared the expense with no one Mr..
Mcclure sold English rights and syndicate
rights, and If he did not get his money
back he got "A serial for his magazine at a
comparatively low price. OF course, Mrs.
Ward and Mr.. kipling are record-breakers
on serial prices. Tire best price paid TO
other popular authors is $3.50, sometimes
not more than $3.50 but even those sums
are not 10 be despised. Every author wants
TO be paid for serial rights, and some pub
lishers-when they are anxious To get an
author-pay the price without being able
to dispose Of the serial. Mr.. Stockton went
to the Appletons because they offered him
a price for serial rights. They had no
magazine Of their own, so they arranged
with Golfers Weekly. where Kate Bon
net appeared Now I see that Mr.. Cables
new novel. "Bylow HILL" will run through
the Atlantic. which means. I suppose, that
Houghton, Miffiin * Co. will publish the
book TX may be that Messrs. Scribner
have arranged with the Atlantic. but II II
doubtful as publishers are getting more
and more avarse TO publishing stories in
their magazines that they cannot publish
in book form. Serial rights. from what I
hear the publishers say, viii probably
prove the rock on which authors viii be
wrecked. IL is absolutely impossible 10
serealize all the stories even OF the popu-
lar authors. and publishers are getting just
a little tired Of paying for rights that they
cannot dispose OF.
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Among the Publishers

Messrs. Harper & Brothers will publish
this spring a work of fiction by William
Dean Howells entitled "A Family Affair"
D. Appleton & Co. announce that the de-
mand for David Harum" continues A
recent edition issued TO meet the English
demand brings the total up TO 6J0,5O0 copies.
The advance orders for Audrey" the
new novel by Mary Johnston. author OF ITO
Have and to Hold" have been so large that
the first edition has been made 125 900
copies. The book has just been published
by Houghton, Miiflin q Co.
Fords. Howard & Hubert. New York. will
bring out Immediately for Easter purposes
another volume in their Nuggets series. en-
titled Good Cheer Nuggets The ex-
Conte. Victor Hugo and Horatio W. Ores
ser.
Dodd. Mead & Co. are publishing The
Lays Of a Lawyer" by William Bard Nc
Nickar, which contains about loo pages of
verse written in the lighter vein. Also
THE League of the IroquOis." by Lewis
Henry Morgan, revised and in two edf-
tiOns.
THE Madness Of Philip. and other Stories
Of Childhood" by Josephine Dodge Das-
kan. will presently appear through Nc
Clure Phillips & Co The same house gill
Ground" by Martha McCulloch- Williams.
containing sketches OF farm life and the
origin of farm lore and farmers saws.
Four new volumes are soon TO be pub
Izhed in the American Men OF Letters
Series" of which the late Charles Dudley
Warner was editor and the Hougton- Milf
fin Company publishers Arrangements
were made long since for volumes on Haw-
thorne Whittier Motley and Longfellow.
but the books have been delayed by the
absorbing occupations OF the writers en-
gagged on them Professor George +. Wood
BURY will edit the Hawthorne volume.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson that on
Longfellow. Professor Edward q. Bovine,
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Kate Bonnet,

Kate Bonnet" is the title of the latest
novel by Frank r. Stockton. The narra-
tive begins in 1917 The central figure is
Major Bonnet once an officer in the Eng
lsh army now, in middle age, a confirmed
country gentleman. living on his own estate
in the island of Barbados. His first wife
had died one year after the birth of Kate,
the only child. The following may perhaps
give the clew to the situation: His herds
and his crops were to him the principal
things on earth, with the exception OF his
daughter. for, although he had married the
second time there were a good many
things which he valued more than his
wife. He becomes tired of his farm,
buys and f1tS out a ship and hires a crew
Nor does he forget the guns necessary for
defense, as in those times pirates were
abroad, intercepting merchant ships and
smaller craft, and often numbering or
NARROWING those OH board He arOuseS the
suspicion of his neighbors by the number
or his crew, but he manages TO slip away
to sea during the night unmolested Early
in the morning Major Bonnet is on deck
with the crew before him, and he thus adj
dresses them: My men, look upon me and
you Will not see what you expect to see !!
Here is no planter. no dealer in horses and
tat cattle, no grower of sugar-cane. In
stead OF that he yelled. drawing his sword
and fourishing it above his head, Il am
Pirate Bonnet, the new terror of the sea.
. You are the pirate crew of the pirate
ship Revenge. . Now look alOft every
man of you and YOU will see a skull and
bones, under which you sail. under which
you fight, under which you gain riches, in
coins, in golden bars and in fine goods fit
for kings and queens" As ii hap
pens the new pirate is not without mentor
to admOnish him of his evil deeds. and 10
speak plain truth on all available occasions.
rms is Ben Greenway, his rfght-hand man
on the farm, Scotch Presbyterian, who
announces his intention to stand by Master
Bonnet through good luck and bad luck
and in his sin and his repentance. The
new pirate proves to be pirate in very
truth and more and more rejoicing in his
proWess and his cruelty. His daughter
Kate visits her uncle in Jamaica and sue
ceeds in persuading him 10 hire a small
schooner and go in search of her father, on
whose head price has been set, and for
whom she is in constant fear. An elderly
lady from Barbados is with her, and the
three start on their wild quest. The adj
ventures they encounter are told in Mr..
StocktOns peculiar style. humorous and
hopeful. even while pOrtraying tragic and
dangerous situations from which no way
of escape is visible. He always finds a
way and a surprise for the reader. And
in spite of the disappointment caused by
the continuance of Major Bonnet in his
evil ways. Mr. Stockton cOntrives TO tighten
the scene by recouDting the faithful love
of Dickory for Kate Bonnet, his unselfish
devotion to her interests and his final and
well-deserVed reward. y. Appleton and
COMPANY. New York
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room for his own Palazzo Braschi-was
rented by Cardinal Caraffa. Towards the
end of the fifteenth century the mutilated
statue was set upon pedestal with the
inscription, II owe my existence TO Oliver
Caraffa, A. l.. 150i.'
one version of the story says a tailor
named PasquinO kept shop opposite the
Orsini palace This tailor was noted Tor
his sharp tongue and witness, and his
satires against the Pope. the cardinals and
the court were widely circulated and vastly
appreciated in Rome In course OF time the
keeping of the statue was Entrusted TO the
care of Donate Poll a lecturer in the uni
versity. Continuing, the author says
Donate took advantage of the festival OF
st. Mark to promote emulauon among MS
pupils, causing them to compose Latin or
Italian elegies. epigramS and notices,
which were pasted on Pasquino pedestal.
The custom met with such favor, hrst WIN
the students later with the many poets
of the court of Leo y. that the number
of verses rose from few scores in 1901 TO
1900 in 1909
some of these literary contributions were
copied and preserved. Concerning these
the author says: "A perusal of these pas
ouinades show them to be mostly the work
of inexperienced or silly boys; they never
deal with politics or religion. Inc
institution collapsed altogether with the
Sacco di Roma. AS long as Pasquln was
left free to speak no harm was done. but
when the reaction against reform broke
ont under Adrian VI and Paul ~ Pasquino
became i'm some measure the anonymous
organ of public opinion and part of the
social system of Rome. 1t is related that
Adrian VI attempted 10 stop his career py
ordering the statue to be burnt and thrown
into the Tiber, but one of the courtiers,
Judovico Suessano, saved him by suggest
ing that his ashes would turn INTO frogs
and croak more audaciously than ever.
Another interesting chapter of the book
is cautioned 1.-THE Truth About the Grave
of ST Paul" It throws new light on one OF
tbe great characters of the Bible. Other
chanters are devoted 10 1.-The Sacred Grove
of the Arvales" Strange Superstitions III
Rome and Jewish. English and Scottish
memorials. The book is handsomely printed
bv Houghton, Miffiin & Co, Boston and
New York
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Starring Authors.


do not know whether il is because book
plays have brought publishers into closer
relations With the stage or what the reason
may be. but I observe the growing tendency
for introducing theatrical methods into the
book business For instance. / said 20 an
author the other day. How II II your regu-
lar publishers are not bringing out your
new bOOk2'
Well" he replied. "Nessrs. So-and-so
made me a particularly good offer and said
that II / would give them my next book
they would make me their star for the
present year.
Their star
'Yes-they would set ali the energy OF
their vast machinery TO work TO boom me-
Every year they star some one author and
they have found that the plan works adj
mira bly,"
ITO the neglect OF their other authors 80
Not al all The others get the usual adj
vertising. but the star Is starred that's
the difference.
/ could not help expressing my sympathy
with the rest OF the Castillo rank and ile.
who do not Ill In with. but whose rise 10
through good luck rather than good man
agement.
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A bill introduced by Representative Coop
er, of Wisconsin. and now before the com
mittee insular affairs, embodies the
policy of the administration with regard
Philippines. 1t provides that the govern
ment of the islands may acquire, by the
exercise of the right of eminent domain,
any lands owned or held by religious or
ders, associations or private individuals
in such large tracts or parcels as in the
opinion of the commission injuriously af-
feet the welfare of the people of the Phil
ippine islands For the purpose of prOvid-
ing funds to acquire these lands the Phil
ippine government is empowered to borrow
money and to issue and sell registered or
/ coupon bonds of the government of the
sary. bearing interest at the rate of per
cent. payable at the pleasure of the Philip
pine government in not less than five or
more than thirty years. The bill provides
that the money realized from the sale of
these bonds shall be applied TO the ac-
QUESTION of the property referred to- and
for no other purpose. After the lands are
acquired by the government they will be
sold TO the natives, who will thus become
owners of the property instead of tenants
of the friars.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-05

For months a portion of the New York
press has been denouncing the methods of
the customhouse officials in examining the
baggage of passengers coming to this coun-
try, mostly people who have been abroad
for few months. These papers have been
treating the examinations as outrages
which should end. Appeals have been made
TO the secretary of>1he treasury, and Mr..
Gage brought denuncfa ton upon himself
by sustaining the officials. a few days ago
an organization of ladies made bitter COM
plant to Secretary Shaw. To these ladies
he sent a series of questions requesting
them TO point out instances where the own
ers of baggage had been outraged as the
committee asserted. The committee was in
dignant when il received the secretary's
questions, and replied that they would not
give special instances of injury and insult
to those whose baggage had been inspected.
This refusal should put an end to this howl
about insulting ladies and gentlemen by
examining their baggage. If incoming pas
sengers would make an invoice of their
baggage as did Mrs. Huntington few days
probability is that most of the people who
are causing the disturbance desire to go
back to the old system. under which large
quantities of goods could be struggled into
the country without paying duty. Few
people can indulge in the luxury of going
abroad and purchasing high-priced foreign
goods; let those who are able to do so pay
the duties if they must have such goods.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-05

The people of Indiana may be pleased to
hear that the delegation in Congress from
this State is solidly against the PROPOSE
ton To put rural free delivery under the
contract system. The establishment and
success of the present system are largely
due TO the efforts OF an Indiana man. the
Hon. Perry S. Heath. as first assistant post
master general and its advantages and
popularity were first demonstrated in this
State \ member of Congress from this
State who should favor a proposition to
change the whole character OF the serv-
ice and put it on a basis that would in
evitably destroy its usefulness and pop
ularity would show singular indifference TO
local sentiment well as TO public in
tereStS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-05

10 is not surprising 20 learn that the
Turkish government repudiates response
bility for the capture of Miss Stone. II
the demand made by the United States
minister for the punishment of the guilty
parties was accompanied by a claim for
and still harder 70 collect. This govern
ment has never admitted its legal respon-
sibility for the acts Of local mobs or lynch
ers. ard Turkey might take the same po-
sition in regard 10 her brigands More
over. there is so much doubt regarding the
nationality OF Miss Stones captors and
the jurisdiction OF the Turkish govern
men; in the case that it seems a weak one
10 press.
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BACK TO POLICE COURT.
Application of Bank wrecker An
drews for Reduction of Bail

LANSING. Mich. March 1.-The hearing
on the application 10 the Supreme Court
for reduction OF the $4,000 bail required
of Frank c. Andrews. the alleged wrecker
of the City Savings Bank of Detroit. came
10 a sudden end to-day. The court sUs-
tanned the contention OF Prosecutor Hunt
OF WAYNE county. that the defense had not
exhausted its remedy in the Police Court
never having applied there for reduction
or made any showing that the bail was
excessive or that Andrews was unable to
furnish IT, The result was the withdrawal
of the application.
The police Justice in Detroit will be asked
TO reduce the bail and II he refuses the
case will again come TO the Supreme Court
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Love Letters.

Young persons who wish TO know how
to fall in love properly and how to conduct
an amatory correspondence will find the
important information duly set forth in
this volume. which treats of introductiOns
courtshps and engagements. and gives
forms for writing love letters. Among
other advice rega riding marriage one is
told sit is best that there should be no
great disparagement in the matters of po-
sition. age and religion" Disparity would
fit better than disparagement, but one can
guess at the meaning. The model love
letters are calculated to interest young
people and amuse elders. Philadelphia ::
The Penn Publishing Company.
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comes Of age at eighteen. IL was great
gala occasion. but Prince Henry didn't cut
much OF a figure Nobody seemed TO pay
the slightest attention 10 him. | have seen
him often in the streets OF Berlin, and ne
arouses no more enthusiasm than you or L
would, nor does he attract any more atten-
ton. We are making so much fuss over
him that the first thing know he viii
be making his home here. | suppose ne
feels that prince, as well as prophet. Is
not without honor, save in his own country.
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The recent announcement Of the Colon
bian government that the Panama Canal
Company could not transfer its concession
OF Colombia and practically a new treaty
has given unexpected turn 10 isthnian
canal affairs. In view Of the legal compli-
cations -reateo oy this announcement the
sub coTM.ttee OF the Senate committee
which has the matter in charge has decid-
81 that the United States should not ac-
eept the recent o1er OF the Panama com
pany. II Is possible the Panama company
may he able TO make some arrangement
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-05

Fortune telling is very ancient art, and
no doubt is best learned by practicing on
the credulous, but this book essays to teach
1t by rule 1t tells how to tell fortunes by
cards, by palmistry, by phrenOlOgy and
other methods, and has chapters on astrol-
ogy birthstones. birthdays and love
charms 1t is a book to interest the cur
ious Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing
Company.
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The Kansas Indians in Oklahoma are
willing 10 abandon tribal organization for
a consideration. They want a per capita
division of the land reserve and the tribal
fund. which would give each man. woman
and child about AS acres Of land and $3.50
IL money In addition TO this they ask
for exemption from taxation for twenty
five years and special provisions for
public school fund. They demand a pretty
good price for adopting civilized habits.
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Philadelphia Record.
II can't help contrasting all this fuss we
are making over Prince Henry OF Prussia
with the attitude of the Germans toward
him at home" said man who has trav-
eled abroad extensively. II was In Berlin
when the crown prince came of age. a
crown prince. you know. has three years
the advantage over an ordinary mortal He
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-05

1t is rather amusing that a member of
the German Reichstag should feel moved
10 give friendly assurance that the Ger
man element in the United States was
power which would not. and should not,
build up a state within a state"
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4 NenaI ORense.

Little Chronicle.
A little girl. finding a threaded needle on
Sunday, commenced sewing with it. Her mother
coming in said: why Jane are you working
on Sunday? Don't you know it's wrong to do
that?'
Il suppose" said the little girl. God knows
I'm only using basting thread
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The abolition of sugar bounties by Euro
pean nations is held up as a reason why
no concession should be made to Cuba, yet
Mr.. Oxnard must know that the PROPOSE
ton To abolish the bounties has not been
approved by the respective governments
and, II approved, will not so into effect
until SeDteu1bor 1qO2
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with Colombia for removing this cloud
from its title. but there is little probability
now Of any definite action on the sub
jet at this session of Congress. As there
is TO be further delay, Congress might
employ the interval to investigate two or
three other routes for which strong claims
arn rnadn
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1t would have been refreshing if some
Republican in the House caucus had de-
clared that duty of 20 per cent. ad valorem
is sufficient when it comes out of the con-
sumers' pockets. and that the time is COM
ing when an industry which cannot flourish
without a duty of 100 per cent. should go
TO the wall.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-05

Southern member of the House OPP
posed the Loud contract bill for rural mail
carrying the ground that if the system
IL put under contract negroes will carry
the mails south of Mason and Dixon's
line-an admission that the negroes are
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-05
That Proved Ii.

Catholic Standard.
Yes, he's given up writing poetry
You don't mean it? Why?"
why he wanted to if his verses
really bad OF his friends said, So he
sent some stun to the Hicult Magazine and
they accepted it
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His Lean to Eame.

San Francisco Chronicle.
Senator Jiggs says he is bound to achieve
fame this session.
why! he is blockhead and a nonentity.
Everybody knows it,"
"Of course, but Jggs is going to espouse the
cause of the Filipino guerrilas."
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Senator Tillman is weeping because the
United States is denying freedom to the
Filipinos. They never had it. but now they
have vastly more than the majority of the
voters OF South Carolina. whom TfIIman
boasts of having driven away from the
polls by shooting and whom he has dis
franchised i'm the name of law
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-05

Hogan is the name OF a Republican in
southern Illinois who will not accept the
Office of collector of internal revenue on
the condition that he must keep out of the
senatorial fight, which makes him some
thing of a curiosity.
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The man in the House who is entitled to a
leather medal is the Minnesota member
who proposes to increase the duty on sugar
20 per cent. so that Cuba may be favored.
He seems not To know that on the article
Of sugar the duty is added To the import
price because we do not produce enough
TO affect the worlds price.
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IL Prince Henry remained in this country
much longer he would become an adroit
public speaker. His allusion at Chicago TO
"a certain connection between this city
and certain useful animal which is con-
verted in the most artful manner and i'm
less than no time into all sorts of shapes
and forms to please and serve humanity
was very neatly done
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ManifestIy WRONG.

Philadelphia Press.
Yes" said the head Of the firm. Miss Addie
is good bookkeeper. but she makes some queer
mistakes"
What for instance?'' asked the silent partner
We'll. she enters our messenger boys wages
under the head Of running expenses
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THE HUMORISTS.
Realism.

Washington star
do you believe in realism in the drama %
asked the friend.
Il do answered Mr. Stormington Barnes.
Many is the time l would have given a great
deal to play Macbeth with a real banquet"