The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-12-07

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Mrs. Flora Annie Steel's new novel
Is to be called "The Sovereign Rem
edy." Its action takes place In Wales
The author herself lives in the region
Of which she writes.
Mark Twain was once asked by
charming girl to write something In her
autograph album. The humorist looked
through the book and found the usual
sentimental stuff such as BE good,
sweet maid, and let who will be clever"
Then he took pen, wrote Never tell
lie" and signed his name This he
carefully dried with the blotter, after
which he added: up. S.-Except to
keep in practice"
General A. w. Greeley, Arctic ex-
tplorer, for many years chief signal off,
Ger of the United States army, and at
present In charge of the Pacific divis-
lon, with headquarters at San Fran
cisco, has prepared Handbook Of
Polar Discoveries" which Little, Brown
& Co., Boston, will issue. This book
will contain resume of Polar explor-
ations from the earliest voyages to the
present time, and Is based upon his
earlier Handbook of Arctic Discov-
cries." The material has been brought
up to date and summary has been
added to the noteworthy achievements
Of Adventures In the frozen North
within the ten years that have elapsed
since 1t was published.
Booth Harrington, the author of ''The
Conquest Of Canaan" and other popu-
lar novels, is known among his friends
as somewhat of a practical joker. A
good story of his Princeton days is re-
lated In the Bookman. The managing
editor of the Nassau Literary Magazine
at that time was a person who took
himself and his literary responsibilities
with portentlous seriousness. He was
wont to deplore the lack Of suitable
, material ut his disposal, and to speal
!, in accents of emphatic scorn of the
quality of the submitted contributions
!, from which he was supposed to make /
periodical worthy Of the senior class
\ One day he found In his letter box I
poem which moved him to more THAI
; usual disgust "See here" he snorted
contemptuously, to group Of which
Harrington was one; "thls is wha
some fool freshman sends in and call
, poetry. How am l going to make ,
magazine out of stun like this How
! am I, I ask?" "Oh, thatl" spoke vi
" m ri 4 In
SELF" $50 you wrote it, did you?
> growled the managing editor. mo.
said Harrington, sweetly, II didn'
. write it, only copied it 1t was writ
=. ten by Tennyson."
Not long ago a writer of moder
l. fame" called on a journalistic al
Quaintance and proposed that he writ
a. some bright, bitter, epigrammatic- pa
agraphs attacking the authors late
novel "Why in the world should yc
n want me to do that?" inquired the a
tonished journalist. "For business re
sons" was the calm reply. my +
views have been very favorable, but Il
a. book doesn't seem to be going as We
as my last, and / think some hot sh
%. would do it good" 1t is no exagger
b.. tlon to say, that the high road to lite
airy fame Is well-night deserted. b
the short cuts are SO crowded that Il
adventures bump one another at eve
ry step. Rumor has 1t that one aspira
for Immortality personally visits eve
20. book stall in the large cities and pI
cents an autograph copy to the chi
salesman before bis volume is markt
n ed another makes it his business
p procure testimonials from public chs
-, acters on every book he offers; and
ha few years ago fancy dress ball W
a. given In Washington by an auth
m. whose guests were actually request
In to impersonate the characters portra
g cd In their hostess latest tome! +
mt port does not say whether the mas
on saved the wearers' faces, but the laug
III. ter that this supreme effort provok
lat was happily undisguised.