The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-05
ONE DoL1,AR A WORD.

little sense into us.
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ONE DOLLAR A WORD.
Mr.. Roosevelt isn't much OF a.writer.
Shameless villains have limited that he
isn't much OF naturalist. Yet hot
headed publishers are trampllns each
other to death at..oyet Bay In the
rush to buy his African blg-game ar
ticles at a word. II this seems
inconsistent with the reported slump
in Mr.. Roosevelt,s autographs. we
can't help 1T. Nothing Is kconsistent
about Mr.. Roosevelt, not even the re-
ports.
At 81 a word, the temptation to
pad should be enormous. To Mr..
Roosevelt, a. natural padder, con-
genitally liberal with his adjectives. It
should prove well-nigh irresistible. But
we are confident that he will not only
resist it. but will go further and count
compound words as one.
The magnitude OF the prefer cannot
fail to dazzle him. Mr.. Roosevelt's
main ambitions and energies have not
been given to literature. as Mr.. Taft
is aware, yet he can sniH at most Of
those who have given their lives to
becoming masters OF that art.
The spitiable cases OF Milton and
Goldsmith are too well known to bear
citation. butthey are typical. A1cclue's
IA ,ln 4
$1,000 for sixteen-llne poem once
upon a time, but after that comes a
long gap. Disraeli's heirs got dollar
a word for a posthumous fragment,
asset to the author.
OF the high-priced moderns of the
best-seller class, Conan Doyle has got
ten 60 cents word, apd Kipling So.
cure upon the ascent mark. But
speaking by and large, the best work
of very we'll known writers indeed
can ordinarily be bought for 10 cents
a wore, !. and down.
AT 81 word. nearly any OF those
messages last winter would have
netted its author $4,000. Yet Con-
gress got them all for nothing, and
seemed to think that was high.
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THE PIE ISSUE IN MINNESOTA.
The Republicans Of Minnesota have
put up for Governor a man who eats
pie with his knife, and predictions are
that he will sweep the state clean as
a platter. A pie-eating man is a
strong card In any case, .butga man who
eats it with his knife Is igvincible.
Few States appreciate these subtle
bonds of the plain people so well as
Minnesota. There,tadversaries hooted
at John A. Johnson as "the washer
woman's son. and the slogan made
him Governor. Whether 1t would be
strong enough to bear down the tre-
mendous password OF jacobson will
never be known, for johnson is not
running. Jacobson. with an army Of
Northwestern pie-lovers at his back,
will eat his way into the statehouse,
and Minnesota. made Democratic BY
"the poorhouse candidate" will swing
Republican again under the hacks Of
a strong mans pastry knife.
The Wanted solidity of the South is
as nothing to the solidity OF the pie
lovers. Where the issue OF their favor
tie dish Is in any way raised, as be-
tween rival candidates. they vote as
one man. Splits among them are un-
thinkable except the splitting Of we'll
Drowned kivvers. No bolts are ever
known except the steady boiling OF
| pie. Cohesive. healthy and happy,
splendidly organized and resolute In al
weathers, they hold tho balance OF
power. throughout America; and sway
1 the destinies and the glories. How
they would fare In a face-to-face con-
J test with the baseball fans OF America
could be estimated only by those who
/ know what happens when an irresist'
lille force meets an tmmovable body
Happily. the issue will never be raised
for the two colossal classes are one
! Every pie-lover may not be a fan. ou
every fan is lover OF pie----that. In
deed. with bottled pop and peanuts
being his only known source OF nu nut"
ment.
]. The only hope we can see for the dis
mayed Democrats Of Minnesota Is t
put up man who dr1nks pot-licke'
out of the pot
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now MUCH HIGHER WILL THEY
GOT
/ Greed, silly rivalry and the cues
for notortety are combining to throy
4 the sltyscrapsr lavel In New iorl
ridiculously and dangerously high. Tn
newest architectural freak in hand
the Equitable Building. which Is :
\ stand slxty-two stories and over 100
d feet from Foundation to flagpole. Int
4 1t will be packed some 5000 huma