The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-12-04

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Il Speckled Bird the new novel
by Augusta Evans Wilson, of which
10000 copies have been sold in adj
vance of publication Is On the press
for another edition of 10000.
small. Maynard x Go. announce that
the first edition of Holman Days new
poems. Pine Tree Ballads was ex=
7 hansted within a week after publlea.
/ tom They also report that nearly
! l0eoD copies of Mr.. Days first book,
Up in Maine" haye been sold.
F In gathering material for his novel
/ Harpers. VIII a. Harden met with
many rare experiences. lie was he
nighted once at mountain cabin
where family OF five daughters aud
/ a mountalneer and his wife ate and
slept in the only room the house con.
tanned. With Characteristic hospitality
the farmer said the stranger was wei
come II he would put up with things
MS they were II was late, and there
WAS no other cabin In sight, so Mr..
Harden accepted the kind offer with
what grace he could summon. There
were four beds in the room and 10
curtains, and the visitor wondered
What they would do with him. They
all sat cheerfully around the fire after
supper. and about o'clock the noun.
. . - saN a
better go down to the spring and git
us a drink" At the spring the host
obviously detained his guest for few
minutes and on returning to the cabin
they found 1t wrapped in darkness.
The two men went IN and slept In a
bed together. The next morning be-
fore dawn the author was awakened
from the fuost delightful sleep he had
ever experienced. 1t was the noun.
talneer bending over him. Il reckon"
the man said. that me n you'd better
crawl out an give the women folks
chance to git up and cook break
fast" :
The best friends of Rudyard Klpllng
are evidently those who read his
stories and poems and do not come in
contact with the man himself. writes
the editor of the Augusta, Me-, Jour
nal. He doubtless has his good points,
lots of them, and is probably a jolly
good fellow at times, but he seems TO
have the faculty Of keeping In con
slant stew with his neighbors. 1t was
50 in India; 1t was SO In Vermont, and
now 1t Is 50 IN England. Ii seems i'm.
probable that II Is always the fault of
the nelghbors When he was tired OF
India he came to America. the home
Of his wife. and built fantastic bung
alo on an Old farm just out of Brattle-
boro, Vt lie expected TO have digni.
fed and Independent literary seelusion.
After he had been there a while the
Brattleboro people voted unanimously
that his coaehman seemed pretty
good fellow. On his part he found
that the inhabitants Of the pie belt, "
as he called the section, were too curl
Gus and Intrusive TO suit him More
over, he had an unhappy row with his
brother in law. So he moved To En-.
gland and established home in the
village OF Nottingham near Brighton.
All was well for time aud the village
seemed to appreciate the proximity of
genius. But II had an awakening. or
several OF them. There was trouble
over drill hall. and then more trouble
because he defended his aunt for hang
ing out pro-Boer flag. He had row
with this neghbor and that, and now
he has folded his tent aud departed FOR
another section of England. on the
quiet border land between Kent aud
Sussex. We hope there are no neigh.
bors within a league that no relatives
viii establish themselves In that VI.
cinity, and that he will be able to give
the world some such literary produc.
lions as came from his pen In earlier
years before yexatious neighbors put
him in mood to write only trash.