The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-23
VIEWS AND GOSSIP Of NEW YORK
Work Horse Parade Viii Be Week S
Leading Attraction.

New York, May 23.-''Let Us
Alone" that magic phrase which
came out of the west, like Young
Lochinvar, has taken New York by
storm. New York is fond of slogans
and catch phrases, and this one fits
admirably. Down in Wall street it
was received with exceeding great
JOY and, emblazoned in golden let
tiers, shines from the wall of many
a great financial institution. The pro-
prietors of saloons, whose side
doors lead to the alienation of Sun
day thirst, have taken up the cry.
The gamblers, whose receipts suf-
fer serious depletion from the ra-
pacity of police itching palms, share
in the sentiment. Bookmakers, with
their occupation threatened by the
reformers, reiterate the demand.
Even the socialists, driven from
street corners and bewailing the de-
NAL of their ''inalienable right of
free speech" shout at the top of
their voices, Let Us Alone"
"One newspaper the 100000
editor of the Evening Journal inele-
gantly remarks, carries this slogan
at the head of its editorial page in
New York and the aforesaid editor
assures us that 1T will play a part
/ in the coming national campaign un-
doubtedly." This is true, undoubt-
edly even if it does fail to prove
| that knowledge of the English Ian
guage in New York is necessary to
drawing large salary as the editor
of the Hearst newspaper.
Editors as Easy Marks.
| There is no reason why a man
possessed of a typewriter and the
ability to operate it should be out of
work in this city. Old magazines
may be purchased in any second
| hand book shop, stories may be copi-
ed with no mental exertion, except
| to change names and titles. and the
''easy marks" who preside over the
! editorial departments Of some of the
New York magazines will do the
rest. Those who read the current
periodicals are aware that this me-
thod of earning livelihood is extern
sively practiced, else the editors
! themselves are arrant fakirs.
| Numerous examples of literary
piracy are contained in the recent
numbers of popular magazines. One
of the Shorty McCabel' stories, by
! oCN Oil olu- 10 IVpi lhiSu HCl Doeihi
in a popular periodical, with the
| authorship attributed to one SWEET.
| Another magazine has an article
purporting to be written by a noted
war correspondent, which is in large
part an uncredited translation of a
book by Spanish-American writer.
A magazine which makes speciality
of humorous short stories alleged to
be original, has in the last few
months published many yarns that
'were probably familiar to Adam. En-
glish magazines with little or no
circulation in the United States af-
ford a fruitful field for the literary
buccaneer. Scores of TRANSACTIONS
from French, German and other
European magazines, slightly chang
ed to suit the American taste, are
annually served up in the American
magazines. To the man or woman
possessed of little ingenuity and a
minimum of honesty, the occupation
of literary pirate should be both
pleasant and profitable.
Cured, But Ungrateful.
Miss Frances Wynne, of this city
is a shop girl, healthy and .withal
beautiful. One morning about a year
ago she went to the department store
where she was employed and was
greeted with sneers, grins and gig
giles on the part of her companions.
The reason for these manifestations
of levity was supplied by sympa-
thetic friend, in newspaper adver-
tisement, Illustrated with a picture
of the beauteous Miss, Wynne. Read
ing the advertisement the fair shop
girl discovered, to her horror, that
she had been suffering with divers
pains. caches and maladies and that
she had been jerked from the jaws
OF jeopardy and an untimely grave
by the medicine manufactured by a
feminine philanthropists of Lynn,
Mass
I So it came about that Miss Wynne
appeared in the United States cir
| uit court, asking for $4,000 as 4