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The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-01-20
Helpful Hints for Her LadyShip

We often wonder why people buy popular novels
What makes the novel "pOpoular" is one of those
strange for which it is difficult to &C.
count
1t is curious fact that no theatrical manager
can tell whether play will fail or succeed nor can
the shrewdest publisher predict the fate of book
The public simply takes the bit in it's teeth and
now and then runs away with the play or book
why nobody knows.
Some time ago. when the public had taken to
Gilbert Parker's The Right of Way the Messrs
Harper in order possible to ascertain why printed
several advertisements in the daily press of the
country asking readers to kindly say why they read
this book. From all over America and Canada came
letters, 486 in ALL
These were carefully tabulated with this result:
Seven hundred and eleven said they had heard it
favoraby spoken of by friends who had either read
1T seriny or in book form; 468 had seen it adver-
tised or both advertised and reviewed.; ia had read
reviews of it; SO had read something the author
had written previously and liked his style; "a had
read the serial themselves, and wanted the book in
consequences % replies gave frivolous reasOns-"be
cause they had the price,, because "a fool and his
money are soon parted, because "they dull and
wanted something exciting because "they wanted
something to talk about" because "they read all the
new books" "they wanted to be up to date" etc.
All this leaves the publisher pretty much where
he started. But one thing is clear While readers,
in the long run, the best advertisers, it is the
review and in some cases, in this one, the serial
publication at the outset that sets them talking
In other words, the first vogue of the popular novel
is due, apparently to the manor woman-who
reviews it.
The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-01-20

half of the poorer class of planters, to take
necessary to enable these to replant o..
greater damage, of course, was done in the ,
lands. AS the variety of tobacco grown in
province is the choicest known, tobacco smoker,
the near future may find, as Mocha coffee dru;.r
have long done, that the name does not carry the
true flavor with it.
In connection with the establishment and con
tnuance of rural letter routes the Government in
tends to follow in the line of the old adage "tbe
Lord helps those who help themselves" and make
those who get mail do certain work in the way of
keeping the roads in good condition, providing zap
proved" rural mail boxes, removing dead trees tina
may have fallen the road, filling up mud holes
etc. Otherwise, the department will conclude that
the service is mot appreciated;" it also says LIS
policy will be to discontinue if such is the case orr
where the patronage does not warrant the expendi
ture. All of which goes to show that "R. f. D." isl
in danger of curtailment of service.
Secretary Wilson of the National Nut (pecan)
Growers Association advises us that the proceedings
OF the third annual convention will shortly be pub
lished in pamphlet form, $50 pages, and copy sent
to each member of the association; but that COPY
will be sent to any interested in pecan culture
on receipt of % CENTS plus cents for postage. "The
third annual session fully up to the high stand
ard of efficient work and enthusiasm which has
characterized former gatherings. The attendance
wa large and representative, ten States being repre-
sented. With few exceptions, the published program
was carried through, though several papers were
read by title in order to give time to discussions
and the transaction of important business" Flor.
ida is represented by DR.. j. b. Curtis of Orange
Heights, who is first vce-president Mr.. j. f. viii,
son of Poulan, Ga, is secretary.
Continued on Fourteenth Page)
The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-01-20
PRELUDE.

We expect everything and are prepared for moth
ing.-Madame Swetchine.
The craving for q delicate fruit il pleasantcr
than the fruit itself.-Harder
Expectation whrls me round;
The imaginary relish is 80 sweet
That it enhances my senses
-Shapekspeare
There are many things that are thorns to our
hopes until we have attained Them and envenomed
arrors to our hearts when we have them.-Mirabeau
1t is when tomorrow's burden is added to the
burden OF to-day that the weight is more than man
can bear.-George Macdonald.
late issue of the Scientific American gives an
account OF two freaks, one in the animate the other
in the inanimate world. The first is turtle with
TWO heads, the other pepper with another pepper
inside OF it. Nature plays many fantastic tricks
but generally be relied upon as being true to type
Another item reaches us from Manatee County Of
lettuce acre yielding 1000 net profit These
stories should be substantated by actual figures as
to labor, fertilizer, crop shippers expenses and COM
mission mems per cent A general statement does
not cover the ground.
The editor of one of the Lake City papers declares
that its citizens determined to hold the State
Agricultural College, the Buchanan bill and the re-
cent decision of the Supreme Court to the contrary
notwithstanding AS the Titusville Star pontedy
Says eff the citizens of that place are back of this
movement, and are in earnest, the paper states,
they will find that they will receive the righteous
The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-01-20

Japanese colony, it is reported, will settle in
Texas, having secured large tract of land in what
is known the "San Antoine" section, about the
ancient town of San Antonio These colonists will
plant mulberry trees and tea bushes, and their
knowledge and experience will go far toward max
ing tea culture of than it seems to be
at present in the South. Then, who knows, says a
Northern paper, the time may come when "real tea
may be as common on our tables is the stuff that
is now sold for tea but which consists largely of
willow leaves, chips, old grounds and nobody knows
what else" Which is a consummation most devoutly
to be wished, down here in Florida
The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-01-20

It is gratifying to note how, more and more, sys
tenn in the household has grown from manifestation
into a reality. Happy the woman who has this
reality and is thus fortified against worry care and
trouble; happy the woman who has commenced to
manifest system in her household, the manifestation
The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-01-20

Reports. from Havana indicate that the tobacco
crop in the Vuelta AbajO province is practically
ruined the torrential rains of the last week in De-
cember having proved fatal to the growing plants
The Cuban Government has been appealed to in be-
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05
PROGRESS OF ESPERANTO

The London chamber of commerce
has put Esperanto among the subjects
for examination in its educational de-
partment. This International language,
successor of the unlamented Volapuk,
was introduced to the world by DR..
zamenhof, a doctor in Warsaw, Pol
and in 1887. His pamphlet, "An Inter-
national Language by DR.. Esperanto"
published in that year, lay dormant for
sCme ten years. 1t is said that $4,000
persons can now read or write Esper.
anto, and there are some for ~ journals
and magazines and some 200 societies
or "centers" for propagating it, About
half of the roots in Esperanto are Of
Latin origin, 25 per cent of English,
and 25 per cent of German. There is
no English 90" "w," or "y" in the
language. There are no silent letters.
The accent is &lw VS. on the syllable
next to the last. AT present Esperanto
consists of about 1000 roots and from
1000 to 5000 words DR.. Zamenhof holds
that by the use of some thirty prefixes
and suffixes, 900 root words are enough.
Its grammar ought to be learned in an
hour by anybody who knows one of the
Latin languages There are no irregu-
lar verbs (blessed be Esperanto). The
plural ends in ~" nouns in co." ad-
jectitves in "a" Ino is the feminine
ending. For example, "patro," father;
"patrino," mother. VIII Es. .eranto go
the way of Volapuk or will It prosper?
with the Procession" Everybody's
Magazine.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05

in scholarship or in the the professions
to become captains or members of ball
or rowing teams-some indeed abandon
useful pursuits to become prize fighters.
Greed for gain prompts to this. 1t is
not as bad as the Roman gladiatorial
contests, nor the Spanish bull fight, but
it is far below the spirit of the Grecian
games.
Professional gaming leads to excesses,
and not only prevents consideration of
the seriousness and high objects of life,
but it produces the results described by
Plato. The joyousness that springs
from rational recrea ton and amuse-
ment is displaced by the growth of a
sordid and groveling propensity Lives
of the professional athletes are short;
they rarely accumulate sufficient to
supply their needs in the decline of life,
and, what is more unfortunate, they be-
come untitled for any useful pursuit
When gaming of any character becomes
a passion it shrivelS the imagination
and obstructs aesthetical and ethical
growth.
Prize Fighting Not Game
Technically, prize fighting may not be
classed as game 1t stands on a foot
ing with ar-baiting, cock and dog
participants and onlookers will hardly
be controverted. The fighters are all
marked specimens of the imal man,
and physically rank with the draught
horse and OK, md generally are not
much above in other qualities.
The prize fight is attractive to those
only who admire muscle, skill and en-
durance more than cultured mind and
moral sensibility The audience that
enjoys seeing men pommel each other,
blacken eyes, smash noses, knock out
teeth, and is filled with glee when a
combatant comes Up "groggy," is not
such as has admiration for the Godlike
element in man. Their idea is that the
animal is the Better part of the human
species.
1t is true that life would be dull in
the absence Of that which gives anima-
ton and effervescence to the spirits,
but whatever t. adopted il. avoidance
of dullness should not be of a degrad-
ing character Life is for useful work,
and there are kinds of time and
pleasure worse than abso lutte idleness.
One of the symptoms of growing
deterioration of the public ste is the
eagerness for reports of ball games,
rowing matches ard prize fights. A
ai60A lass 90eh IiS Hc"S ioSaiull 3
them than of war, political and relig-
ious events or the movements of the
kaiser, King Edward or President
Roosevelt
In the past American life has been
serious. The present tendency is in
such contrast to what has been that the
impression is growing that our people
are retrograding, furnishing Ground for
unplea SAINT APPREHENSION of what the
future may bring forth.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05

/ absolute accuracy the percentage Of ef-
! fclency of the line or piece Of appara-
tus he is examining.
This laboratory and another one near
by, which is devoted to mechanical
tests, are important adjuncts of the en-
cheering department of the Bell tele-
phone system. The profession Of the
telephone engineer has existed but thir-
ty years and has seen more progressive
changes than have taken place in any
other profession In the same length OF
time. The number of men whom eX-
perience has qualified as experts In the
highest sense Is probably smaller to-.
day In this than In any other profess
sion. So at its headqua rters the Bell
system maintains for the benefit of
all its thirty-eight orga nizations, big
and little, an engineering force Of $50
men, to whom are referred the puzzling
difficulties which require for their solu-
tion a greater expenditure of time and
money and wider resources than any
lessor organization could afford. These
are the men who have made the tele-
phone the wonderfully efficient thing
1t Is today and are making the telephone
Of the future still more wonderful.
Forces on the Spot
Each subsidiary comapny has its own
engineering force which handles all Or
binary matters "on the spot" But
things come up in the days work every
where which can best be dealt with by
the trained investigator, who has spe-
calized for years, and these matters
are referred to the skyscraper labora-
tory. 1t may be some difficulty I'M
transmission for which no cause can
be found. 1t may be a demand for a
new kind of telephone service, requlr-
ing a modification of the ordinary in
strument 1t may be the laying out of
an intricate underground system or
planning a group of central offices in
some distant city to provide for the
growth of years to come, for in maxi
ing their plans today the Bell engineers
look twenty years ahead. Perhaps it is
new scheme of operation which PROM
ises to lop off a second or two from the
time it takes to get subscribers into
communication.
One specialist studies methods of tim
ber preservation, a matter of great i'm
portance since the demands for poles
by the various industries using electri-
cal current is devouring trees of the
proper size at least five times as fast
as nature can replace them. Another
devotes himself to underground coll
duits, weighing by laborat tory tests and
by actual use the merits of different
sorts of materials for different sur
roundings. considering such questions
as where cresoted wood is best, where
tiles are preferable, whether manhole
in a given kind of soil should be con-
creted or bricked what kind of con-
struction is best for city and what for
country, what difference should be made
where the frost comes early and sinks
deep and where frost is unknown.
third is making his life work the study
of insulation-most important of all to
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05
Games Are Increasing in Popularity

than formerly. We hear more of ball
and rowing teams in our colleges and
universities than of olarSEip-more
| of muscular than of Intellectual stu
dents-more of those whose sinews are
inordinately lusty than of those of large
and we'll filled brainJ That in this
country games are vigorously engaged
in comports with the strenuousness of
the American character.
Vigorous exercise and plenty of it is
beneficial to students, but is it not be-
ing overdone? Is it not true that ath-
letics is often carried to an extreme
that defeats the very ends sought to be
attained, even that of rational amuse-
ment? Too much severe exercise is
more harmful than too little, and the
former frequently results from the bar
barism with which games re played.
In any field of effort Americans are
liable to be immoderate. Plato, who
was familiar W it'll. Grecian games, said:
Excessive gymnastic deadens the in
telligence and rutalizes the spirit"
The pioneers of the country developed
their muscles, expanded their chests.
made their bodies hardy. kept their
blood in circulation and digestion good
by useful work, and it also produced
comprehensiveness and altertness of
llilIu III I6SpGCl " llldl Wu4CIl NdS illOSl
valuable in human affairs Their labor
may not have made them as light of
foot and acrobatic as the professional
athletes, but they were stronger and
more enduring. Why may not institu-
tions of learning devise something that
will promote physical health and
strength and which will be serviceable
in future occupations? This is done in
schools of technique and applied science,
but it is not impracticable for other in
stitutions to enlarge the curriculum.
Happy Medium
The fea ture of amusement should not
be altogether left out in student or
youthful life, for there is truth in the
old saying that "all work and no play
makes Jack a dull boy" The converse
is also true, that all play and no work
makes him ignorant and trifling.
Gaming of some kind has become a
fad with no inconsiderable number of
Americans. The participants watch
and read about hem. There is already
large class of professional gamesters,
and for the reason that the business is
so conducted as to be profitable, like
the fnenagerie and circus. Betting or
gambling on results has become as
common as on the race track, or on the
ups and dow!l Of stocks in Wall street,
or of prices of grain in the bucket
shops. Young men leave useful and
lucrative employment, abandon careers
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05
Newest Books for the General Reader


of etiauette in burlesque, A bright
satire on the over-serious books on the
same subject.
While written only to amuse, much
good, common horse-sense is included
in this fun making at the expense OF
social customs and conyentionalities
The author has a singularly delightful
faculty of making everyone laugh with
him, not so much at as over their own
foolshnesses; and having extracted
humor from the dictionary, he now
finds a fruitful field for his good-na-
tured raillery in the follies of society
Eediotlc Etiquette, by Gideon Wurdz,
New York, Frederick A. Stokes COM
pany, Los Angeles. Stoll & Thayer.
Little. Brown & Co. will issue this
fall new edition of THE North Star,
by Mrs M, E. Henry Ruffin Its APP
pearance will be very timely, as one OF
the best scenes in the book is the
crownlng of the first king of Norway
at Nidaros, or Trondhejm. as II is now
called, where King Haakon was recent
ly made king.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05
.s''s'tss.s'tz' ,zs't''t''s'ss' si'ts'' 's.f.E''

In The Awakening of Helena
Richie" Mrs. Margaret Deland ghas
wrought a tale of intense emotional
heights and depths that dwarfs by COM
parison her former stories. The same
delightful Old Chester people are here,
entering into a profound drama Of
which Helena Richie, a beautiful young
woman and newcomer to Old Chester,
is the center. 1t is the story of the
awakening of her noble self, her renun.
citation and turning from the past,
through the unconscious influence Of
a little boy whom DR.. Lavender and
Willy King interest her in adopting.
The Awakening Of Helena Richie, by
Mrs. Deland. New York: Harper &
Bros.
THE Sphnx's Lawyer by Frank
Dandy, tells of a man who Is a brilliant
bohemian and whose life has early been
turned from the ways of conventional
reotitude by his hero worship for an
Intellectual genius and moral degener-
ate, He finally marries woman whose
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05

strength, goodness and love raise him
to fulfillment of his highest possibili-
ties. The book was conceived in con-
troVersy and will always be a probable
center of discussion. Although pri-
marily a strong story we'll told it
starts such questions as this: Is il
right that our prisons should Gas is the
rule) make men worse instead of bet
ter? BY the clever woman who wrote
pigs in Glover" 1t is sure to add much
TO her literary fame.
The Sphinx's Lawyer. BY Frank
Dandy. New York: Frederick A.
Stokes company. Los Angeles: Stoll
q Thayer.
"Eediotic Etiquette" by Gideon
Wurdz (Chares Wayland Towne), au-
thor of THE Foolish Dictionary" is
conceived In the same gleeful spirit as
the authors previous successful work.
II gives complete rules of department.
for afternoon teas. proposals, bargain
counters, motoring. home shows, kiss
ing, and all the familiar contingencies
of modern social life. A complete book
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05

~ UTE recently, while on a trip to
the continent, King Edward dis
covered a mechanical contriV
ance which he recognized at once as
the thing that he had been wanting for
many a long day. This was nothing
more or less than what might be de-
scribed as trying on-machine"-i
vented to save people who could afford
one the customary bother of having
clothes fitted on their own figures, and
to King Edward, who has more clothes
made in the course of year than any
other man on earth, it came as the
biggest kind of a boon, and represented
the saving of literally innumerable
hours of his time.
By the aid of a key this "multiform,"
as it is called, can be made to repro
duce the exact shape of any given
human trunk. If it be required to rep
resent a hunch- -ba cked man, a hump
can be developed on it at once. If the
''original' be round -shouldered or
round -shoudered or pigeon-cheSted,
too. at the invitation of the key. In
fact, all the little peculiarities which
differentiate one body from another can
be reproduced on the 'multiform." 1t
is hard even for a monarch to maintain
his dignity in the hands of tailor
who is giving him a trial fitting-espe
tally one who is as sensitive about
his figure as King Edward, and so it
is easy to see why his majesty hailed
his discovery of this contrivance with
rather uncommon satisfaction.
The blessed ''multiform" now saves
his dignity, time and patience. He
has no longer to subject himself to the
ordeal of having garments tried on be-
fore they are finished. In his tailor's
fitting room is an exact counterpart of
the most important pprtion-from a
sartorial standpoint-of his majesty S
anatomy and on this the royal clothes
are tried before being sent to the
palace. A number of these machines
have also been ordered for the royal
wardrobe, so that the coats in greatest
demand may be stretched upon them
and kept free from the greatest blem-
ish in his majesty's eyes-wrinkles.
Edward Sti Sets the Style
Apropos, a question might be raised
as to whether King Edward still sets
the styles for men of fashion the world
over as he did for so many years as
| Prince of Wales, and it is rather inter-
esting to be able to answer this query
with decided affirmative. Whenever
his majesty goes on the continent" !"
said one Of the leading sartorial au-
thorities of London to the writer, yes
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05

box is a series of contrivances each
with the electrical resistance and ca
pacity of so much cable or wire, as the
case may be. and by manipulating the
switches any desired number of the sec
tions of artificial line" as they are
called, can be put into the circuit under
test. The artificial lines are made by
taking the resistance of the size of wire
they are to represent, allowing for the
inevitable leakage of current under
some conditions and for the influence
of induction under others, and then
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05

at +he open end of the line. rocking the
switch back and forth, while the other
listens in the sound proof booth, not
ing the differences in transmission
caused by each change of connections
differences which to the unframed
ear would be hardly perceptible. Some
tmies an actual operating plant is COM
pared with standard equipment. like
that used in the laboratory. by means
of one of these engineers layouts," p"
and so skillful does the expert become
that he can determine with practically
Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05
HOW TO PREVENT COUGHING

Coughing is the worst thing for a
cough, and in most instances of cough
there is more coughing than is neces-
sary to subserve the purpose of the
cough-i. e., to remove offending ma
teral..
The following directions will help
one to minimize coughing in all in
stances, while in the milder cases it
may stop the cough altogether after d
little perseverance: When tempted to
cough take a deep breath. filling, if
possible, every air cell, holding it until
the warming, soothing effect comes or
so long as is reasonable, and mark the
notifying result on the cough, which.
even when the latter seems unavoida-
bic, will often be found under control.
Repeat if necessary. The explanation
of this is that there is a liberation of
nitrogen in the air cells which has a
quieting, sedatve effect on the irritated
mucous mbrPne.-National Maga-
zine.