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The newspaper that publishes the
news and publishes it ahead of its
contemporaries, Is the paper which
will find most favor with the public.
Camden Post-Telegram.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-12-10
None for Him,

Towne-You see, he married her be-
L he was given to understand she
had S100, 1000.
Ryowne-Ah, yes, and She DIDN'T
have it, after all.
Towne-Oh, yes. she did. And she's
got it yet. That's the trouble
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-12-10

Ethel-What dowry did Prince de
Rataplan receive from Gwcndolyn's
father?
Jean-Not more than a million dol
lars. You see, it was almost a love
match.-New Orleans Times-Democrat
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-12-10
Happy Bird Was Fast Asleep.

GATWICK, England, Dec. 10.-Hap-
py Bird, a horse belonging TO Mr..
Pritchard, was found to be fast asleep
during q hurdle race here.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-12-10
True Sport.

so you failed to enjoy your hunt
ing expedition. Shot nothing, I sup
pose?"
"On the contrary, l shot several OF
the party!'-Brooklyn Life.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-12-10

Hospital Physician-Jamesl

Hospital Physician-James!
Assistant-Yes, doctor.
Hospital Physician-TaEe this care
! found in this mans Pocket and look the
name up ir Bradstreet's. | want to
Lnow whether it's an ordinary case Of
Inflammation, or appendicitis.-Balti
more American.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-12-10

Dec. 1O-Private Reception, Braga
Hall.
Dec 10. Masquerade Ball, Harmonic
Singing Society, Wilder
Hall.
Dec. 10, Haunt Polly Basset's Sing
in Skewl, Simpson M. f..
church.
Dec. 11-Minstrels, Blks, Wilder
Hall.
Dec. 15-Ball, Central Pleasure Club,
Dewey Park.
Dec. 1S-Concert, Miss B. Campbell,
Wilder Hall.
Dec. 31-Ball, Woodchoppers, Cabin
Amboy, 40, Wilder Hall.
Dec. 3O--Alumni dance, Wilder Hall.
Dec. 31-Steamfitters Union, Braga
Hall.
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ChfcagO's "Littlc Room"

Roswell Field, in New Orleans Democrat.
And beauty of literary life with US Is
that it is concentrated in a club which
we call the Little Room" and which is
unlike anything else in this country. Eight
years ago about a dozen of us met I'm
Bessie Potter's studio-that clever little
sculptor girl. who married Vonnah, the
artist, and formed the Little Room" call
ing it after Madeline Wynn's story of the
vanishing chamber, because we never met
in the same place. though for two years
now we have chosen Mr.. Clarkson's studio
in the fine arts building. There are about
eighty members now, largely literary folk
with prominent artists, leading architects
and a few famous musical people. The
Little Room has social foundation, be-
cause a man may be all kinds of brilliant
fellow, and yet there may be important
social reasons for his exclusion. We meet
every Friday afternoon. delightful part
of 1t all is that any distinguished man or
woman coming to Chicago who wants to
meet the literary crowd can meet them all
in half an hour in 1.-THE Little Room"
Sometimes we get the delusion that we can
act, for instance, when you all'' were
having your Mardi Gras we gave a bur-
lesque of 1t, all of us arrayed as knock
ers," artists, piano thumpers. etc. We also
enacted a burlesque of 1.-The Crimson
Wing" and / believe we were the most
rotten actors in the world. Well, you may
know how bad we were when / tell you
that represented the whole French army.
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the countries they inhabit, for thousands
are devoured by storks, alligators and fish
es. Even old turtles have many enemies,
not the least curious being Jaguars, which
watch for them, turn them on their backs
with a flip of the paw, and eat them at
leisure.
Leathern turtles-which live in the sea-
have been reported weighing over a ton
This species is very rare. and curious
circumstance is that only very large adults
or very small baby individuals have been
seen, the turtles Of all intermediate growths
keeping out of view in the great ocean.
Swapping turtles are among the fiercest
creatures in the world. Their first instinct
on leaving the egg is to open their mouths
and bite at something. They feed on al
most anything, but when In captivity they
sometimes refuse to eat. and have been
known to go year without food, showing
no apparent Ill effects. One method which
ing. A swapping turtle will lie quietly at
the bottom of pond or lake, looking like
an old water-soaked log with branch
its head and neck-sticking up at one end.
From the tip Of the tongue, the creature
extrudes two small filaments of pinkish
color, which wriggle about and bear a
perfect resemblance to the small round
worms of which fishes are so fond. Fishes
are attracted by these, swim up to grasp
the squirming objects and are engulfed in
the cruel mouth of the angler: Certain
marine turtles have long-fringed appen-
dages on the head and neck, which they
wave about and thus make to serve a SIM
liar purpose.
The edible terrapin has become very
scarce In places, so that thousands of them
are kept and bred in inciosed areas or
'crawls" as they are called. This species
has great deal of curiosity, and is often
captured by being attracted by some un-
usual sound.
The tortoise-shell of commerce is OBJ
tanned from the shell of the hawksbill tur-
tie, the plates of which being very thin, are
heated and welded together until of the
required thickness. The age to which tur-
ties attain has often been exaggerated, but
they are certainly the longest lived of all
living creatures. Individuals from the Gal
apagos islands are estimated to be over
four hundred years old.
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THE "WfLD WEST
Found Only Between the Covers OF
SO-Called Western Novels.
Denver Republican.

Denver Republican.
What has become of the wild west?' "
asks the Chicago Tribune. Wyoming is
wearing store clothes and Colorado is a
State of farmers"
The Tribune's question has been asked
In so many ways and by so many people
that the West has become somewhat tired
of answering 1t. In the course of time 1t
curious Fasteners that there is no wild
West" and that, in fact, the woolly place
of fiction is nine-tenths imagination.
Some day the East will wake up to the
is possessed of a higher and more assimi-
lative type of civilization than many of the
narrow, rock-bottomed and hidebound COM
munities Of New England. But the process
will be slow. Probably the novelist and the
artist will be the last ones to succumb.
The novelist insists that there is a wild
West" He takes a couple of weeks off and
travels from Omaha to San Francisco. and
the fact that he doesn't see anything wild
does not discourage him. He goes home
and calls his Imagination into play, and in
PRODUCES boisterous cowboys and all the
other conventional characters of the So
called Western school of fiction. These
characters, as they are painted in novels,
do not exist In the West Old-timers say
they never did. But the novelist knows
they ought to be there, and his editors
pay him good rates for his stuff and write
glowing advertisements about its fidelity to
nature. And then the artist never allows
reality to influence his ideals 1t he draws
p cowboy he never shows the rather meek
looking hired man who officfates or the
average Western ranch. He puts on all
the picturesque accessories, from chaps to
sombrero. and the editors are pleased again.
So If the Chicago Tribune really wants
to know what has become of the wild
West it should not look any further than
The wild West" is there, and 1t has been
nowhere else for years
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Wards being the latest to suffer. says the
Boston Literary World. We quote from a
note: Her husband. Thomas Humphrey
Ward, is a man of unusual mental attain
ments and culture. He Is an Oxford man.
best known. perhaps. for his edition or
the English Poets He has for years writ
ten the brilliant art criticism in the London
Times. Furthermore, the son or Mr.. ana
Mrs. Ward has been successful as STU
dent both at Elton and Oxford, and is de-
scribed as a young man of promise. me
last clause, particularly, takes US. We
wonder how it takes Master Ward"
An English writer thus describes the
novelist, George Moore:
"A tall, slender man, with sloping Shout
ders and narrow-chested and with long
neck well covered by a high collar; the
arms long, the feet listless and slow. On
his head he wore his hat-even as you and
|. 1t was a London make. His clothes,
of unobtrusive cut and anxious recitude.
also looked English. Despite his Celtic
sympathies. this writer still believes In
British tailors The coloring of hair and
complexion is kind of lemon yellow, while
about the temples are modulatlons into
gray. At first glance he gives the impress
sion of youth, so blonde is he; at second
you see a man of forty-four, slightly dis
illusioned. very gentle and very injurious:
That is, until one says 'Boer or Irish. and
then his languor vanishes and he becomes
a dealer in affirmations.
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American Medicine.

An eminently sound and conscientious
practitioner tried I'm vain for twenty years
or more 10 arouse the profession TO a sense
or the value OF massage and mechanical
therapeutics in the treatment of certain
diseases. At last he gave up in despair
~ was not just then fashionable. Editors
would not accept his articles and the law
minded. the exploiters OF the popular opin-
ION. begulled themselves with the old-fash-
Toned sheer at the hobbies OF hobby rid
ers sand the world went on In its blind
way. Then came the osteopaths and the
blceps worshipers OF the cheap magazines
ana what the profession would not listen TO
from its own members was willy nillv
forced upon the attention by the auack. III
Is true that other regulars and Scientists
prior TO the qrack knew all and far more
than he OF the value OF massage, but like so
much other knowledge. IL was not realized
IN daily practice by the leaders and by the
masses OF the profession. IL required the
compuision or ignorant popular enthusiasm
70 make US actually treat our patients bv
these methods and TO put into use the mar
tial veritable truth turned into an untruth
by the extremtsm and indiscrfmfna alton OF
the charlatan. But why need we carry ont
generation after generation this stupid be-
lifting and ignoring OF the new TRUTH
There are many such illustrations as the
one we have cited OF our strange indiffer-
cnce 10 methods OF treatment ten twenty
or thirty years after demonstration has
been made OF their efficacy and value. LET
us keep our minds open and flexible.
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The Spring Books.

New York Times Literary Review.
In our lists of spring books fiction, as
usual, predominates. About two hundred
novels and volumes of short stories are
named, exclusive of Juveniles" and con-
sidering that the lists include only the
principal books published since Feb. 1 and
those to be published before July /. the
proportion of fiction seems very large. But
last spring the number of works of fiction
in our lists was considerably larger, and
those persons of a serious turn of mind
who deplore the predominance Of works
OF fiction among the books of the hour may
derive some consolation from the fact that
even the titles of most of last years nov
els are already forgotten. 1t is significant
that more than half the number of this
springs new novels are of American au-
thorship. While the historical romance
still thrives, IL no longer crowds fiction
of a less flambouyant sort from the field.
and a very large number of the newest
novels treat of the everyday life of simple
folks in our own era. The booksellers
agree that nature books" so-called, now
fairly rival the novel in the public demand
while librarians report a gratifying in
crease in the circulation of historical and
biographical works. But fiction still leads
In the publishers announcements.
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ton 1 saw my book in every booksellers
window and my name blazoned every
where.
At last 1 found a man who grasped my
hand and talked to me like father. He
assured me the market for such work as
mine was good; that what was wanted
was new blood. He made me tell him
how came to write and all about myself.
/ told him too much, for he saw my anxiety
and found me an easy prey. In burst or
confidence told him how badly other pub
fishers had treated me. That made MS
heart warm toward me, and 1t being just
l o'clock he invited me out to luncheon.
He took my book, and said he would not
and read il that night, and would send
me an answer in a day or two.
The next evening i received letter ask
ing me TO call at my earliest convenience.
i was on hand early next morning. The
senior partner met me. and told me how
much pleased he was with my manuscript,
so much so that he had already placed II
in the printers hands, for he felt sure we
could come to satisfactory terms. The holt
days were near, and my book was just
what was needed for the trade. All this
was most gratifying, but was soon to be
made uncomfortable. Presently the Ques-
ton was put to me as to whether l had
come prepared to pay the first instalment
of the amount the publishers had fixed as
my guarantee to them. You know" said
he, THAT a book such as this puts to
great expense. / should advise you to pub
lish by subscription You say you have
why these should not pay in advance, and
thus relieve you of raising 800 of the 500
ask. We shall bring out 500 copies. The
edition ought to be 1,000 the cost would
be only 800 more than for the smaller edi-
tion." Seeing that was getting very nerv-
Gus, the publisher added that / need not
pay that day, but must let him have the
amount, $500. within a day or two, as they
had put back other work in order to hasten
the publication of mine.
1t will be remembered that the book was
to be brought out for the holiday trade.
The holidays passed and it did not appear
The swallows came and still 1t did not ma
terialize. Summer was upon US and the
publishers gave no sign. Early in Septem-
Der 1 received a parcel containing twelve
copies of my book, and polite note ask
ing me to call or send and pay the remain
ing 500. The publishers, so the note stated,
had decided to bring out the thousand edi-
ton. They had delayed publication. be-
cause the market was overstocked but
now at the outset of another season the
demand was likely to be so great that they
had printed double the number.
1 have bought ten copies to present to
my friends, and thus far no accounting has
been made. The debt, whichever side the
law may say it is, has long since been out
lawed. The enterprising, friendly publish
ers are out of business, but their methods
are in vogue to-day. My advice to the
young author is, better take snubbing
from a responsible firm than accept the
iattery of the obscure. B.
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Literary Notes,

John Kendrick Bangs, humorist, author
and editor Of the new Metropolitan Maya
zine, is greatly bereaved by the sudden
death of his wife. which occurred last Sun
day. She leaves four sons, the Oldest of
whom is only fifteen. A.4-
After long silence Miss Braddon, who is
now an old lady, is about to bring out
new novel, She calls it "The Conflict" It
will be interesting, says the Tribune. to
watch the effect of the book upon the gen.
GRAFTON which has arisen since she reached
her prime.
The. Publishers Society of Stuttgart has
advised its members not to exhibit their
publications at the st. Louis Exposition
They say the United States copyright law
so discriminates against German publica-
tons that to exhibit their books and prints
here would do them no good, but would
advertise their publications to Americans
as available for reprint. The copyright
treaty is very unpopular in Germany, and
Stuttgart publishers are trying to induce
their government to demand its improve
ment or repeal.
Up to now, II. G.. Wells has occupied
himself mainly with speculations regarding
the conditions likely to obtain in an age
whose coming he foresees, and has ex-
pressed comparatively few ideas as to the
meeting of the Fabian Society d the Other
night, however, the author of 1.-The First
Men in the Moon got down to actualities
He read a paper with the portentous title,
1.-The Question of Scientific Administra-
tive Areas In Relation to Municipal I'm
dertakings."
Admirers Of the novels of the italian
writer, Madame Matilde Serao, which Hen
ry James, for one, has so highly praised,
have read with regret of the charge
brought against her of accepting money
from man in payment for a public office
which she was to procure for him through
she and her husband were associated. The
newspaper was discontinued, and, accord
ing to the allegations, she failed to de
has now recanted, but his denial is re-
garded with doubt. and the trial is to go
on. Madam Serao is planning tour of
this country for next year.
The bolstering of the unknown relatives
of well-known people goes merrily on, Mrs.
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missioners will fool the barnacles every
time II they can do it.
There are several crews in the book
making stands at Bennings TINS spring that
are wonders TO me. The successful book
maker is the one who always has a crew
that is competent in the matter of steadi-
ness-a crew composed of men who go TO
bed at night instead OF staying up with the
boys 10 play poker while INDUCING in liquid
accompaniment. and fellows that may be
relied upon 10 turn up at the track with
bright eyes and clear heads. Perhaps in no
legitimate business is absolute clear-head-
edness more essential on the part of all
hands than in the business of handling the
public's money in the betting ring of big
race track such as the one at Bennings. The
bookmaker's crew consists of sheet writ
er, cashier and one or two wardmen. or
outside men,, whose business it is to find
out what rival boOkmakers are doing. The
men are all well paid for their work. Sheet
writers earn from SIS TO s25 a day. cashiers
from Sic to SIS. and the outside men about
the same as the cashiers. The most i'm
portant member OF the bookmaker's crew is
the sheet writer. To be a top notcher in
this line OF work he has to keep a cool
brain from the beginning of the racing sea-
son until the last event has been run.
He is the man who registers the bets.
ADEPTNESS OF SHEET WRITER'S.
I've often marveled at the adeptness of
Washington track. Thew have the quick
ness of eye of a weaver and the eye of an
Indian. and are wonderfully dexterous in
excitement and amid the frenzy Of shouting
and jostling they are as cool as the pro-
verbal cucumber and seldom make mis-
takes OF any kind, although their penciled
entries of amounts and numbers may count
up into the thousands in the course of
single afternoon. In an event in which
there are from fifteen to twenty starters
1t is astonishing to me that these fellows
do not go to pieces under the strain. While
1T is true that in races of this kind only
a few OF the starters are played heavily.
still there always a few bets to be
registered under the name of every horse,
and 1t Is the task Of searching for the
names OF all these animals on his sheet
that makes the sheet writer's work so
heavy. After the days races are over the
sheet writer and cashier get together and
strike their balances. Once in a while in
doing this they run into tangles that keep
them busy most Of the night. but this sort
OF thing seldom occurs with thoroughly
trained crews proficient in what is known
as team work The cashiers job. while
less ex9cting than that of the sheet writ
er. Is one that requires patience. quickness
OF vision and a perfect mastery of the art
Of handling and changing money.
Judging from the great interest being
taken by all classes of people in the Wash
ington track this is going to be the great
est racing season ever known in the East
And there will be more gambling than ever
before-mark that We Americans live a
life that naturally leads to gambling. AS a
people we love speculation and as a peo-
pie We love horses; put the two together
and that makes US a gambling people,
doesn't it?''
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UNWELCOME SYMPATHY.

New Orleans Times-Democrat.

New Orleans Times-Democrat.
"Out West a few years ago. while jour-
neying around with friend of mine.
overheard a conversation which goes to
show that sympathy Is often misplaced"
said the rowing man. land the moral is
not by any means a bad one. The quick
way in which the man turned on his
friend, who had offered him an abundance
of sympathy so far as sympathy can be
extended by mere words, was very amusing
and showed that the fellow was quick
witted and unusually bright, despite the
fact that he had fallen into rather tough
road. The young man had been out West
for some time. He had gone out there
with the idea that he could win a fortune
but instead of finding the way to success
a smooth one, IL was rather rough and
rocky, marred by thorns to prick the feet.
pitfalls. and all that kind OF thing. Put In
plain, unpoetic language. he was run down
at the heel, and baggfng at the knees In
order TO make living he had been forced
to become pie merchant on a small scale.
He was in this business when we found
him. and had a small movable stand on
the corner of two streets in a well known
mining town. My friend recognised him
at glance. and rushed up TO greet him
The fellow seemed to be just little embar-
raised. and my friend thought IL would be
the proper thing to do to offer a little
sympathy. Sorry 10 see you situated as
you are, old fellow, and i'm this business
said my friend feelingly. D your sym
pathy. Buy pie was the quick rejoinder
had left him shrieking out his wares TO
men who passed that way. AT least he
convinced my friend that there are mo-
ments In a mans life when the mere SYM
pathy OF the mouth, no matter how earnest
or how fervent the words. cannot meet
real and only way 10 offer help in such
instances Is TO buy pie