The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-11

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 How true, how olcyatIng Catch that sausc of direction, down-up down, Ones heart nutlcrs for mos ment and then one mrmws Going d0wn,''
 Even cartier than this Wclcker had received the Enighthood of print, If is recalled that in the earliest sos the press gallery at Sacramento engi- noerod a bin through the California legislature printing tho poetry of Adar Welcker ae public document priceless volume if jt were now ob- tainable
 Not every editor proved so cruel as the magazine lot Hear now the poets gratitude to journalism;
 "ln the interval between the pro- duction of more serious works, seeing that tho publications of America that place before the world literary work not SO generally because of other req sons, as was the custom with maga- zines, hut very frequently because of merit in them, were weekly and daily papers, wrote for such comic sketches.
 Two books or these sketches were printed, In the same vein was the volume For People Who Laugh, :" privately printed. lt did not sell enough to make it a commercial sue cess, hut the author stll brides him self in tho knowledge that it went to the uttermost parts of the earth and way stations.
 People in different lands wrote in regard to its publication in different languages he ohscrvcs, and 1t seems to havc pleased people who wished to laugh from one end of tho world to the other for applications for copies came from places as far apart as South America Australia, Switzer- land and Austria, and from a seaman aboard ship at point close to the middle of the Pacific,
 But never again will he he bothered with hunting mp a publisher No more print for him. His end is at tained when his work is written Let the world suffer the loss and bear it as t may
 But, he writes in this chatty little letter, knowledge about that time (namoly, when Louis XVI" had been rejected by tho last magazine and the last theatrical manager) be- came conveyed to the author that ends for the benefit of mankind were to be accomplished through the work by q method apart from stage production, | if to the perception placed within { him the author would remain unfail- lngly obedent, beyond all that stage l production in all lands could accom- plish.
 For the maker of men. by that | method out of which he creates the language that he has ever used in con versing with his selected ones who have shown themselves to have the might within them, to be ready to he obedient to his desire that they should depart out of old paths wherein men each seeking the support and conn l panjonship of and placing their strength each in the strength of oth. | CTS all together walk to go instead | out into way fin which others have not walked that he would show them conveyed his desire to the writer of the work, and by that word of aesur- ance. of his that when it has been gfv- en 10 those who SO acting are in a condition to receive it has been ever | shown by the outcome of the matter to be a promise that may not fail, made known to him how vast wore the ends that were to tc accomplished through the work
 And SO the writer working in that campaign in which no campaign funds by those who have gone through it have never been asked for. steadily for years thereafter made manuscript | copies Gin all several thousand Den written pages), tho number of coplc. amounting to b4 which wero pro. sented to libraries in America, Eng. land, Germany and elsewhere
 The same sort of plan Is proposed in the publishers announcement pro. ! llNed to "Flavia. "'rho author vii make ana sell autograph manuscript copies for S1,oOo copy People mol caring 10 pay that sum can either make manuscript copies themselves ol hire other people to make them. anf have their copies bound to suit theh tastes at any bookblnder's.
 No longer can the destination slit stii'e genius. Make manuscript copies. Fifty such copies at coo thousand each would pay better thcr a best seller, The Shakespeare o the Contra Costa has sympathy for any person that anybody rejects. IT, has learned enough, Inc says, 10 know that the rejected are in number mncl greater than the accepted by thosl authorities, and that in this countr, of majorities ought to be enough f, satisfy anybody
 
 NO CHILDREN IN t5O YEARS.
 Pointing out that In the last 50 wear there has been decrease of 15o to thousand, or about 30 year. in fb ,pYtI IF,, s,T .t.g