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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30
in THE LITERARY FIELD
THE ALWAYS INTERESTING CUES
TION OF WHAT AUTHORS EARN.
tain AuthOrs--Art of Letter
Writing.

Now since most of the publishers in these
days depend so largely upon novels, and
since most of them must find new writers,
all the living streams of publishing seem
to run towards one deep sea of fiction,
says writer in the Boston Transcript The
serious side of the situation is that, so far
as the publishers influence goes in pro-
noting literature, the novel gets the full
impetus of his work, and other forms of
literature are relatively neglected.
Discussing this matter with three New
York publishers, / discovered that they
freely confess the conditional least as a
strong tendency; and they are as eager as
the public to change it. But they cannot
change it at will. So long as successful
novels bring more money than other kinds
of books (omitting textbooks, of course),
men and women VIII continue to try fiction.
Exaggerated as rumors of literary incomes
often are, the financial rewards of success
full fiction are large. 1t is easy to calcu-
late it. An authors royalty of 10 per cent.
on book, the retail price of which is $50.
comes TO 22ls cents copy. An edition of
10000 will bring the author So, 500. An adj
ditional payment is often received for
earnings in some cases are even better than
this; for very successful writer's receive a
royalty of 20 per cent-or 80 cents per copy.
The sale of 100000 copies yields $4,000. The
number of writer's whose books have
reached nearly or quite 100000 copies, or
more, within a few years is considerable.
Mr.. Churchilfs most popular book reached
sale of about 100000. IL he receives 20
per cent. his income from this book alone
was $4,000 Others, whose recent books
have gone either to 10000 near it, are
Miss Johnston, of course (and hers went
far beyond, Mr. Allen, Mr.. Page, Mr..
Thomas Dixon Mr.. Bachelor. Mr.. Gable,
Miss Hogan the Cabbage Patch'), Mr..
Hopkinson Smith, Mr.. Harrington, Mr.. Con-
nor; and there are more. The number
whose books have reached $4,000 are still
more numerous.
Now a novel pays for its publication If
its sale reaches from 5000 to 5000. Every
manuscript that comes along, then, and
every writer with a promising plan of a
story naturally gets announcement If the
publisher thinks he sees a chance even of
the sale of 5000 copies; for who knows but
the writer of a first book that will sell
1900 copies may write a later book that will
sell 100000? Here is the vast blind cave of
an innocent reader of a novel now and then
are called on to read a first book by an
unknown author. The publisher is trying
the public. If the writer scores a success,
you'll hear of it pretty soon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30
Rider HaGgard at Home.

London Letter.
Like the wives of many other famous
men, Mrs. Rider Haggard is seldom heard
of outside the circle of her own personal
acquaintance, yet her help to her husband
is by means confined TO the field of in
spiratiop and encouragement, but is most
practical. She is his first critic in every
thing he writes and not a line of his pen
has been published since his marriage that
has not first passed the keen eye of Mrs.
Haggard and received her approval
1t is not alone in his literary work that
Mrs. Haggard is of assistance TO her noted
husband. Had it not been for her he would
not now be one of the most popular justices
of the peace in England, for she has proved
herself a thorough mistress of diplomacy
on more than one occasion. when she has
helped her husband in some official func-
ton. She and her two daughters have
lately been presented at court and have
attained considerable social prestige in Nor
folk.
Before her marriage Mrs. Haggard was
Mariana Margetson, a wealthy heiress of
Norfolk. She brought her husband the
chief of his three estates, Ditchingh Cha m
Manor, which was built over 300 years ago
and which lies in the valley of the Wav-
eny river, not far from Bath. Here they
lived most of the year and here the novel
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30
Men Who "were Literature,

George Moore, in Lippincott's Magazine.
Balzac and Hugo were the last of the
great men whose inspiration was unceasing,
and who did not make literature but who
were literature. Balzac wrote a great story
al sitting; sitting that lasted for eigh-
teen hours. All that while he wrote, for
no secretary could keep pace with him, and
all that while he lived on black coffee. Then
he slept for thirty hours. Hugo wrote
Hermann in a month, and we can think
of Balzac and Hugo as think of the
great Venetian living in the glory and ex-
ultatiOn of constant creation. VerOneSe
must have improvised 1.-THE Marriage Feast
AT Cana with extraordinary ease, and
like TO think he painted the immortal fid-
der i'm a morning and went out in his gon-
fair days work. That was how men
wrote and painted i'm the great times before
science beckoned them away from the beau
tiful
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30

Bradford Torrey, in September Atlantic.
And Wordsworths secret? Any poets
secret? Well, for aught see, it re-
mains a secret; something as far beyond
human subtlety to explain as it is beyond
human ingenuity to produce. THE wind
bloweth where 1t lsteth." Genius, Gin
spiration,"-it is hard to get without
the old words, vague though they be. Nay,
it is precisely because they are vague that
they serve so useful a purpose. Even Pro-
fessor Raleigh, after speaking almost con-
temptuously Of impatient critics" who seek
to account for Wordsworth's amazing inc
quality" by assuming that sometimes he
was inspired, at other times not, is heard
a little afterward lamenting that i'm Words
worths case, i'll Coleridge's. the high
tide of inspira ton was followed by long
and wandering ebb."
One feels like quoting Lowell. whose ar
row in such competitions is apt to hit the
white. Wordsworth, he says, was not an
artist in the strictest sense of the word :
neither was Isaiah; but he had a rarer
gift, the capability of being greatly in
spired."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

How far does the buzzard scent ?-Rocket.
No knows, but investigators credit
the bird with more remarkable vision than
acuteness Of the sense Of smell.
Where are the Corinth and Kaiser Will
helm canals?-V. r.
The former is I'm Greece connecting the
CULTS of Corinth and Aegipa; the latter is
in Germany, between the Baltic and North
seas. Both are ship canals.
Taken at an average, does Germany or
America have the tallest men?-A. X.
According to Topinard. the average height
of German male adults Is 66.2 inches. DR..
Gould, a statistician, gives the average
height of native Americans as CTS inches
:. :.
Will you give the names and adj
dresses of the officers of Michigan who
oversee the railroads of the Stateo-E.
B. w.
Chase S. Osborn is Michigan's railroad
commissioner: Charles III. Chapman is
deputy commissioner. Either may be ad-
dressed at Lansing.
Did Paddy Ryan knock John L. Sullivan
down at any time In their hight at Missis-
sippi City?-B. G.
He did not, though he threw Sullivan in
the second and fourth rounds, and the two
sluggers fell I'm a clinch in the eighth
round, the rules under which they fought
permitting wrestling.
VIII you print the formula for some metal
that will melt by the heat of boiling water !?
w. III. A
What is called D'Arcets metal. consists of
s parts lead. parts bismuth and parts
tin. 1t melts at 174.2 degrees of Fahrenheit
Woods metal, parts tin. 3 cadmium and Is
OF bismuth, melts at 40 degrees.
Is human hair so unlike that OF any
other creature that it could be readily dis
tinguished?-G. T.
1t is said that the hair of the chimpanzee
and gorilla are so like it in structure and
microscopic appearance that they might
be COMPOUNDED 1t is unlike the hair OF
other animals.
Is the caste system of India so severe in
its workings as il was before the English
dominated that country?-B. NJ. $.
No. not nearly so severe. Take the old
obligation upon a son TO adopt the calling
of his father. for example. 1T no longer
binds as il once did, even Brahmans ignor-
ing it at times. Loss OF caste can be re-
covered. too. without tremendous effort.
How long does II take cultivated ginseng
10 reach marketable size? 2 And how long
has ginseng been cultivated successfully IN
this country?-P. Ill. +.
About five years, though with the atteaa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30

list does almost all his literary work. Dur
ing the season they come up to town and
open their house in Radcliffe Square or
sometimes go TO Mr.. Haggard's old family
home, Brandenham.
Among their friends there are naturally
many anecdotes of the domestic life of the
Haggards, but the one that is now being
widely circulated is the following: 1t
seems that Mrs. Haggard not long ago
wanted to engage a lady help''-a title
given to gentlewomen, who through ne
cessity take positions as upper servants
and generally oversee the affairs OF the
household. To this step Mr.. Haggard was
decidedly opposed. The attitude of gentle
woman forced to do such work is not al
ways the pleasantest. When Mrs. Hag-
gard persisted he said one evening at din
Now, L warn you. If you get any lady
help in this house I'll give her my seat and
wait on her myself
The HaggarGS have no lady help.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30
September Bookman.

September Bookman.
There is great excitement in Iceland at
this moment. Hall Game is his way
there equipped with large novel-produc-
ing plant, including cameras, sheep shears.
filing cabinets, blank forms of affidavit, a
photograph, ten stenographers, and a bar
rel of ink. He will learn the language on
shipboard so that no time may be lost. The
matter is urgent, for punctualy on the
morning of Aug. 1, 1904, there is due from
him novel Of great primitive passions,
strong, deep. fresh and true, of which the
scene must be laid in Iceland. 1t will be
written with terrific force throughout, and
with abundant evidence of first-class i'm
pressions. Types studied on the spot. ac-
tual events in the life of the people, their
very words, a background of ice, snow,
arctic twilight. penguins and walruses, a
foreground of fierce joy, all to be first seen,
then snap-shotted, then dictated. then care
fully revised, read back, punctuated, and
filed-it will be busy and fruitful fortnight.
But he will not fail. The elements will be
there as per invoice on the morning of Aug.
i. What will your novel be? Religious
asked a friend a year or two ago. I've
done religion" said Mr.. Caine, calmly.
finished the social problems he replied
with touch of asperity. Civilized man."
he went on, ''is complete in my books.
Primitive man now awaits me. He will
be ready on August /; dramatized on Octo-
Der Is. j then turn to ideal love a
background of simplicity i shall study it
in the Vale Of Cashmere. June 10 to June 20,
both inclusive, 1867 Splendid executive
ability, promptitude and push, head like
a "dry-goods emporium. heart like mod
ern hotel, no costly whims or private preju-
dices. man for the many and publishers
delight, an inexpensive democratic Zeit-
geist-we would rather own a hundred
shares of stock in him than any other in
dustrial afioat Ere this goes to print Mr.
Cainp hprSarkQr
hum of the primitive passions confessing
will be heard on all sides.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30

and other summer resorts. and that IL has
also the recognition of King Edward VII.
Munching is one OF the numerous preven-
tives of extreme weight that appeal 10 per-
sons who want to lose flesh. but unwill-
ing to deprive themselves OF life's pleasures.
1t means merely very slow eating Its the
Dry is that every particle of food must be
chewed slowly and carefully until no solid
material remains TO be swallowed. Slow
eating is merely carried to an extreme by
the new treatment. All London society
threatened with too much flesh Is said to be
chewing very long and very thoroughly.
and American converts to the system are
already numerous. Its effect is said 10 be
noticeable at dinners, which have come to
eating and drinking went on rapidly. Per-
sons who eat slowly also eat much less than
those who eat rapidly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30
Literary Notes.

Mr.. Henry James has completed his book
on William Wetmore Story, and it will
soon be published.
The novel by Mr.. Henry James, "The
Ambassador which has been running as
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30

Who is the United States consul at the
Island of Gaum2-S b.
The island is United States territory, so
there is no consular representative there
from this country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30
The Munching Fad.

New York Sun.
The report comes that "munching Is a
very popular practice just now in Newport
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ton now being given TO its cultivation ii
would seem likely that q variety of quicker
growth might be developed before long.
2. All trials failed up to 1885, when ANEW
York grower succeeded in raising the plant
i'm the woods. The same grower later raised
il I'm artificial shade had from shelter OF
r.ff
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30

How many voters in the city of In
dianapolis? 2 How many votes each did
the Democratic and Republican candidates
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30

The total vote cast at the city election
two years ago was 1854. Mr.. Bookwalter
(Rep) received 20.slO; Mr.. Mcguire Dem)
10 IL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30

If deserter from the United States army
is apprehended. how is he punished? ..
If after the expiration of his enlistment he
is not caught. can the government appre-
bend him then?-R. l..
In time of peace the maximum penalty is
dishonorable discharge and confinement at
hard labor for five years, and in time of
war the penalty may be death. 2. Yes; if
caught he would be turned over to the mill
tary authorities for court-martial.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1903-09-16
OREGON NOTES.

Oregon's blue ribbon state fair
opened in Salem last Monday and con.
tinued throughout the week.
The Portland directory, just issued,
gives the population of the city of
Portland as 123,662, an increase of 49,.
900 in the past three years.
The doors Of the La Grande beet
sugar factory will be opened to re-
ceive beets September Fl. The pillow.
ing of beets will begin Saturday, Sep
TENDER 10.
After cashing a check for SIS, made
out in favor of the Fraternal Home
Buyers, Harry G. Wells, an agent OF
the concern, has disappeared from
Portland.
Two earthquake shocks were felt in
Portland at 3:45 o'clock p. m. recent
ly. There was no damage so far as
known, although the largest brick
buildings were shaken quite severely.
The store of the Echo Land & Lum
Der company was burglarized recent
ly. Three gold and two silver watches
a new revolver and $50 in cash were
stolen. The robbers smashed a rear
window to gain entrance.
Robert Louden, lumber man OF
Portland, was placed under arrest by
a deputy United States marshal on q
certified indictment by the United
States district attorney Of Minnesota
charing him with entering into a con.
spiracy with several other people to
defraud the government out of public
lands.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1903-09-16
Spokane Market Report.

Vegetables-New potatoes, 600S0e
80 Id sack; head lettuce, &c head; to-
matoes, home grown, &c Id; 60075c
box; radishes, 8 punches &c; dried
onions, 1@2c lb; green onions, 2
lunches &c; parsley. &c bunch; Gu
cumbers, 10000 dozen; beets,
lunches &c; carrots, 2 and punches
SC; caulilower, 10000 head; cab
bage. 2@3c lb; turnips, 2 punches &c;
string beans, SC lb; green corn, 3 doz
en- Csc; home grown, 10c dozen; wax
beans, SC Id; summer squash, 5010c;
celery, 10c bunch; okra, lbs Csc;
crook neck squash, 5@15c; pumpkins
10000 each; squash, 10@15c each
ripe cucumbers, 5@1ec each.
Fruits-Lemons, 20035c dozen
oranges. z5@40c dozen; cocoanuts, IL
@15c each: pineapples, 10000 each ;
bananas, 25@30c dozen; apricots, so
10c lb, 10000 basket; muskmelons, G
and 10 for 25c; peaches, 15@25c bas
ket. 65@$1.25 box; blackberries,
boxes for Csc; watermelons, 10000
each; nectarines, zoe basket; prunes
5@10c Id and Csc basket; pears, &c h.
20025c basket; cooking pears, 2@5c
lb; huckleberries, 10c basket; crab.
apples, 2@3c lb, 25c box; Whitney
crabs. 15c basket; peach plums, 15c
basket; grapes, 10@15c ID, 40c bas-
ket; green cages. 15@25c basket; wild
plums, 25c basket.
Poultry-Spring chickens, 40@50c
each; chickens, dressed, 17@1Sc lb.
Dairy products-Creamery butter,
zoe Id; country butter, 15@25c lb;
cheese, 10000 lb.
Eggs-25@30c dozen: case, $3.50
wholesale.
Grain and feed-Timothy hay, 900
81 cwt; $12@14 ton; grain hay, soc
cwt. $11.50@12 ton; alfalfa, $12 ton;
chicken feed, $1.30 cwt, 1922 ton; oats,
slips cwt. ;2O@22 ton; bran. s5c cwt;
bran and shorts. $1.1O sack 30 lbs;
shorts, $1.10 cwt; barley, 1922 ton, $1.20
cwt; corn, $3.50 cwt.
Seeds-Blue grass, 15c Id; English
blue grass, 15c lb; white clover, 1Sc
Id; red top, 14c lb; timothy, Sc cwt;
alfalfa. SIG cwt; bronze grass, 50 cwt;
rye grass, 50 cwt.
Sugar-$6.50 100 lb sack; IA lbs 81.
Flour-Wholesale, eastern hard
wheat. $5.25@5.75 Dbl; retail, fancy
patents, $1.20 sack; standard brands,
$1.15 sack; common grades, 81 10
sack; lowest, 81 sack; Washington
wheat, $4.25@4.75 Dbl.
Prices paid at Spokane:
Vegetables-New potatoes, 50Q60c
cwt; onions, 50@75c cwt.
Poultry and eggs-Chickens, roos-
tiers. 9@10c; hens, 12c lb, live weight;
young chickens, 1904 dozen; eggs,
fresh. Sc case, 22c dozen, strictly
fresh.
Live stock-Steers, $32503.50 per
cwt; cows. $2.7503; mutton, ewes,
$3@3.5O cwt; wethers, $3.50 cwt; hogs,
live, SCOOPS cwt.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1903-09-16
Upton Takes a Trip.

New York.-Sir Thomas Upton, &C.
companied by the earl and countess
Of Shaftesbury and party Of friends
have left here on special car for
Timothy L. Woodruff's camp in the
Adirondacks. At Camp Kilkara the
party will stay for about four days
when they will proceed westward
After visiting Buffalo the next stop
will be made at Chicago, where Sir
Thomas will remain several days
After Chicago they will visit St Louis
for day only, and it is expected Sir
Thomas will be guest Of Ex-Governor
Francis while there. Sir Thomas ex.
poets to return to New York about the
last week in the month.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1903-09-16

A whole lot Of people work overtime
trying to frame up some excuse for
not doing their duty. Don't do that.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1903-09-16

Some parents lay aside their COM
pany manners Just as soon as they are
alone with their children. Don't do
that.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1903-09-16
IDAHO NEWS NOTES.

The county commissioners have
fixed the tax levy for Shoshone county
for 1903 at 3 1-3 cents.
J. T.. Carroll Of Butte, Mont, has
secured an option, and, it is said, about
closed a deal with the Largie estate
for the mills and timber holdings Of
the Occur d'Alene Lumber company.
The deal also includes the holdings Of
the Largie estate in Montana, involv.
ing total Of nearly 100000.
DR.. s. Magee has returned to Wal
lace from a ten days automobile trip.
He went from Wallace to Spokane and
thence on a tour through the Palouse
country. On the return trip the ma
chine was left at Lane, Idaho. The
doctor did not care to travel in the
severe rain storm.
The work on the construction and
equipment of Weiser's municipal water
and electric light system is practically
completed. The machinery for the
power plant has all arrived and will
be in position in the power house in
about a week. 1t is thought the sys.
tenn will be in operation about Octo-
Der 1.
United States District Attorney R.
V. Cozier has brought suit in the
federal court against 20 prominent
stockmen Of Southeastern Idaho, who
are alleged to have herded large flocks
of sheep and bands of cattle upon land
which has been withdrawn from entry
pending proposal to include them in
the Pocatello forest reserve to protect
the water supply of that city.
Alarm was felt throughout the Clear.
water country over the recent weather
conditions.
Congressman Burton L. French left
last Sunday for Ogden, Utah, where
he will attend the irrigation congress
as delegate. Mr.. French, sirce his
election to congress, has beer rlaking
a close study of the irrigation ques
ton. Following the irrigation con-
gress he expects to attend the mining
congress.
A man named Sullivan had family
barricaded in house about six miles
east of Viola recently and was shoot
ing at them. He shot through the
house two or three times, and was
shooting at the inmates whe never they
showed up. The supposition is that
the man is crazy.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1903-09-16
CR|US[R0LYMP|AE EXPLOSION
TWO MEN KILLED SEVERAL
OTHERS BADLY INJURED.
Cruiser Was on Dry Dock at Norfolk
navy Yard Her Sailors Had
Stolen a Barrel Of Grain Alcohol
Were Detected-One Sailor Struck
a Match at the Barrel.

Norfolk, Va, Sept. 1.-THE explo'
sion of q barrel OF alcohol on the su-
perstructure deck Of the cruiser Olym-
pia, in dry dock at the Norfolk navy
yard, killed two men, severely injured
several others and set fire to the ship.
The master-at-arms of the vessel Is
missing. The dead:
Corporal Yerkes, U. s. M. G.
White man, name unknown.
The damage was confined to the
dock of the vessel and embraced only
the canvas awnings and their fixtures
The decks, however, were slightly in.
jured.
Immediately after the explosion fire
alarms were sounded and the crew OF
the navy yard department and de-
tachment Of marines under Captain
Booth soon put the flames out.
The explosion, according to reports
from eye witnesses, followed the theft
of barrel of grain alcohol, containing
oS gallons, by a party of sailors. This
barrel, it is stated, was taken from
one of the storehouses of the navy
yard and removed to the dock near
the Olympia. There it was opened
Shipkeeper DAILY. on board the Olym.
pia. detected the odor of the spirits
and summoned the ships master-at
arms. A search led to the discovery
of the barrel. which was taken aboard
the OLYMPIA and placel on the hurri.
cane deck. With the execution of a
small ouantitv which ,ad been sni,,
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1903-09-16
An Easy Prize.

Manager H. G. Stimmel of the Spo
kane Interstate Fair, which meets this
year from October to 10, says that
there will be a big display of cattle
and hogs and draft horses, but that
so far there has been no entries made
for the general purpose" horse. There
are some good prizes offered for these
and there is an opportunity for farm.
ers around the country who have good
young horses to take them to Spo' zane
and capture these pr miums. The
premium list can be hau at any time
by addressing Mr.. Stimmel.