The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1905-05-04
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knoAhG LtoEory E@to lnooo8u0o
voiunss In New Drees Yearly.
A large room ON the first floor Of tn
|. Chicago Public Library building re
|, minds one OF a laundry with sole,
clothes at one end and washed an,
ironed ones at the other. Two or tire,
long. wide tables are covered witt
books. torn. frayed and dirty. Othe
tables and rows OF shelves are fille<
with volumes Just from the bindery. II
spick. span. new clothes. with black
blue. green purple, maroon. or rec
backs; not as gaudy or as gity as II
their original array. but far more
solid and substantial.
Last year 5000 volumes were 70
claimed and reclad. and this year 60Ot
will be- Most OF them are novels. an
occasional history or work on practical
arts feeling as lost In the tattered rank
Of Action as a pedigreed dog among
ours Of the pound. The original bind.
ing seldom lasts more than six months.
But stout boards" In place OF cloth II
substituted. and the leather backs In
stead OF cloth ones. The thread II
much stronger, and each token" or
cluster Of pages Is sewed separately.
20 that the renovated book OF this
grade and sort lasts four or ave times
as long a. II did In its original COW
ers- Each new book costs an average
OF IS cents. and its new suit 50 cents,
or. taxing into account its longer en-
dura ncs ahouf q eents
The chief damage done Is the tear
ing Of the leaves. the tearing of the
covers from the leaves. the soil. and
the writing In them. The writing
mainly consists of comment upon the
book. either in praise or blame. Love
ly book" Fine story" BE sure and
read It," isn't she just lovelyr II
think Reginald Is a splendid fellow"
Just too fne for anything" Adverse
judgments are briefer and iess ex-
piicit Bum" and mo good" sums
1t up.
ed. which Ia sometimes made impossi-
BILE by their being written In indeli-
BILE Ink. Occasionally the character Of
the book provokes controversial In
scriptons. Books in favor OF secession
excite emphatic protests from Union
readers The history Of Belle Boyd"
tho SPY. has been fearfully marked up
with frank opinions OF her secession |
procliyities- Protestants and Catholics |
also give vent to their sentiments In /
regard to each Others creed and con-
duct So do those of socialistic or
beliefs, when TIE rare
chance Of their presence In fiction
oners- Frequently these voluntary
are satisfied to draw q
Inc under the obnoxious text and set
! question or interrogation mark In
he margin These expeditions arc gen.
rally In poor writing. bad spelling.
Ind bad English- Occasionally they
ire bitter, and even profane.
Two or three damaged books are
lept ~ -curiosities- One Is q history,
y Senator Lodge of Massachusetts,
I was run over by the wheel OF q
treet car and hundred odd pages cut
heer across diagonally. Another 10 |
copy of the United States Oficial ,
Register. from which some one while I
n the library was able undetected to 4
ut over 400 pages containing tho list
( postoffices and postmasters In the I
United stntes. probably for \ mailing !
st Many Of the books are badly +.
tanned with the compound Of mud
nd SCOT that overiays Chicago streets-
When 4 book hns been defaced OF
amaged, but II not Jet far gone
nough for reminding. the one who Y
raws IT from the library after the de-
ects have been seen. IL protected BY .
stamped line reading: Pages i4o to
- Of this book were cut out previous
, June Is. 1904" or whatever the date a
ay have been g
OF Dickens' works David Copper. u
cid" Is most frequently reboushf and v
bound; 'Tvanhos" Of Scott's- OF tho u
ore modern books Mark Twain's In
,cents Abroad" "Roughing It," and u
Tom Sawyer; Churchill's Richard Z
srvel" and The Crisis" though Ben fs
ur" beats them all In the length OF .
ne during which II has been replaced "a
the shelves. Sometimes the public al
OILS the library officials as It does the as
bIishers. or the seventy FIVE copies ID
Klpling's kim" thirty-nve are on
Q shelves as good a. new. and there 20
Q forty such Of Weir Mitchell's Sc
lugh wynne." The supply Of James re
ne Aliens Reign Of Law" likewise Cd
ceeds the demand. The last supply M
David Harum" Ia not yet exhaust, he
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