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Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-23
IrvinG'r Case An Example.

Long after Washington %Irving's copy
rights ran out his works were still the
most profitable books on the list of his
publishers. In fact. Irving's earlier works
underwent death and resurrection while
he himself yet lived.
When in 1876 Irving returned from a long
residence In Europe his Philadelphia pub
fishers told him that his books were out
of print and that they did not care TO un-
derte',e new editions. The plates were
bought by a New York house. Irving went
on writing, and between his new books and
his old his royalties i'm the next dozen
years until his death amounted to about
$4,000. The sale OF his books for the fifty
years since his death at Irvington in
November. 1859. has never greatly tagged
for long. and the sale Of the most popular
among 'r-~' hos boon RIP
Van WIN. Wa. enc .. the best sellers
Of the last century, and it promises to be
Que Of the best of this,
There are a few great novels of the last
century that would enrich In ten years any
publisher who could have n monopoly OF
their publication. "Ivanhoe" is one OF
these. The Scarlet Letter" is another.
Anybody can publish Hawthorne now, but
his original publishers go right on selling
Hlb NoIhS SllklA ana IN sets almost as II
he were alive and still writing.
The Pickwick Papers" sells better than
any recent humorous work and David
Copperfield' has been selling steadily for
sixty years. There are those who prophesy
that "Pickwick' will be popular when
most other prose fiction Of the last cen
tury has gathered dust upon the library
shelves. Hardly any other book by a
youth of IS has had such a success for so
long = period. now more than seventy
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-23

Of popularity and 1t sells better today than
most serious verse.
About the most popular of all translated
verse in English is Fftzgerald's "Rubaiyat
Of Omar Khsyyam." 1t is bought in all
sorts of editions by and for folk who think
the possession of the volume a mark OF
culture. The sale OF the Fitzgerald's mas
terpiece since the copyright expired about
twenty years ago has been one of the
marvels of the publishing business.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-23
FIRE BURNING FIFTY YEARS
In LehiEh Coal Mine at sum-
NIT Hill Spreading Despite
Fight,

TAMAQUA, Pa, May 2.-Despite the
fact that hundreds Of thousands Of dollars
have been spent in an endeavor TO eX-
tinguish the fire burning for fifty years
in the Lehigh Coal and Navigation COM
pany's mine at Summit Hill, the fire is now
spreading toward the Spring tunnel work
ings and thirty of the Reading company's
carpenters and masOns were sent from the
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-23

Ashland district 10 aid in erecting concrete
walls to check the spread of the flames.
Great quantities of sulphur abound in the
sunken shafts and the work is dangerous.
II may be necessary to fiji the shafts with
water in order to continue the battle
against the spread of the fire.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-23
with a%gilding and fine leather in

honored with agilding and fine leather in
rich private libraries.
They say in Boston that Bob Dana after
his two years of hard toll and rough com
panionship developed into something of an
exquisite in dress and department. 1t is
even told of this man, who as a youth ac-
cepted all the hard conditions of the fore
castle and afterward took Immense pains
to trace out the fate of his old messmates,
that he made the odd mistake of saying to
an acquaintance Of something less than
Brahmin caste: III I shouldn't recognize
you on the street you'll understand that it
is for no reason except my shortness of
sight,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-23
Poets OutseII NoveIists.

Even a few Of the poets outsell in the
long run any but the best of the popular
novelists. Longfellow outsells in the
United States all his fellow poets, native
or other, except Shakespeare. Whittier
comes next to Longfellow in the American
demand and the other American poets trail
a long way behind,
Strangely enough, there is a large and
steady sale for Bryant's "Iliad," but a
very moderate demand for his original
verse. Whitman's verse, which never for
any length of time afforded him royalties
enough for his modest wants, now sells in
costly editions. Holmes verse has always
had a pretty steady sale, but small in
comparison with the "Autocrat of the
Breakfast Table" His approaching cen
tennial is expected TO stimulate interest In
his books, though anniversary occasions
are Of uncertain value 10 the publishers.
There was no greatly increased sale OF
MiIton's poetry last year, although the
tercentenary Of the poet attracted much
interest.
Tennyson outselIs in this country most
native poets, and Browning, thanks in part
to societies formed for the study OF his
verse, comes close after Tennyson. A few
single volumes of verse outsell the col
lected works of most poets. The 'Child's
Garden Of Verses Is one such, and THE
Bah Ballads is another. L@sr's Book Of
Nonsense has had more than sixty years
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-23
Thackeray. Cooper and Others.

AN'NS ~ q 9bNAN ~ Nv SNAN
works at his centennial in 1912.
Thackeray, Cooper and Others.
Thackeray. whose centennial comes a
year earlier, wrote nothing that has had
the steady sale OF "Pickwick," though
"VG nifty Fair" is stil a best seller when
decades instead of single years are consid-
cred. Cooper's Misunderstanding Tales have
never ceased TO sell both at home and
abroad. and many thousands of them are
called for every year. You nay buy them
To-Day In cheap, gaudily covered French
paper bound in editions, just as you may
have some of Hawthorne's New England
stories in an Italian popular edition bear
ing the title, "Racconti del Harvest" The
French "Pickwick," by the way, in two
small paper bound volumes, is a thing to
meke the admirers of Dickens sit up and
rub their eyes,
No current new books for children long
cutsell a few old favoTites of the last and
OF earlier generations. Not to go beyond
the middle Of the last century, Alice in
Wonderland a few of Louisa Alcott's
books and the best Of Uncle Remus never
yield long 10 the popularity OF a new
juvenile. Hans Brinker' also outsells
the new books. Treasure Island won a
place on the permanent juvenile list long
before Stevenson's death. Uncle Toms
Cabin used to be a prime favorite with
young folks north or Mason and Dixon's
line, but within a very few years its popu-
laTity has much fallen off, SO that II no
longer ranks as a best seller.
College Course Causes IL.
The somewhat capricious college entrance
requirements have kept alive for years an
artificial demand for some books that
young people do not really love, No girl
or boy of l6 ever voluntarily read either
Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel' or
Burke's Speech on Cancellation with
America" yet thousands of both have been
sold yearly because boys and girls had TO
read them in order to get into college.
"Absalom and Achitophel' has been
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-23

rival, George Bernard Shaw, not only every
ten years. but every year, and probably
every month in the year. In fact, Shakes
peare, II all the English speaking countries
he considered. is about the best seller go
ing except the English Bible. Editions of
Shakespeare are like hotels in New York,
it seems impossible to get too many of
them.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-23
Stomach Trouble.
Your tongue is coated.
Your breath is foul.
IaaIacha.

Headaches come and go.
These symptoms show that
your stomach is the trouble. To
remove the causeis thefirst thing,
and Chamberlain Stomach and
Liver Tablets viii do that. Easy
b. take and m0St effaEtiya
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-23

years. Publishers are even now making
ready for a squirt in the sale of Dickens
works at his centennial in 1912.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-23

dropped from the requirements by a recent
revision, but Burke's speech still colds its
place.
The college entrance requirements alone
nave created a demand for a few genuine
favorltes and for a good many excellent
things that only girls and boys of unusual
taste voluntarily read. AS the prepara-
tory course in English is now laid out the
indicated reading provides about as much
good literature as most boys and girls
find time to read, so that the little group
of professors and schoolmasters that deter
mine this matter fix the reading of youth
the whole country over and incidentally
make best sellers of a good many things
that would naturally cut no great figure
in competition with current fiction.
There ere a few old American favorites
not fiction that in any considerable span
OF years outsell the new novels. one Of
these is Thoreau's walden" In the
last forty years it has outsold most of the
new nature books, and its popularity is in
creasing year by year. walden" indeed
suffices to keep alive the interest of sew
eral of Thoreau's less popular books
Dana's Great story.
One of the most astonishings things in
American letters is the steady sale for
nearly seventy years of a simple matter
OF fact narrative, Dana's Two Years Be
fore the Mast" Its popularity has waned
a 'trifle within the last few years though
a new edition has Just been announced, and
IL is selling right along in three or four
earlier editions. When Dana revisited San
Francisco in the COS, to find the hamlet of
twenty-five years before grown into a city
of 100 600 inhabitants. he learned that every
body had read his book, and today Two
Years Before the Mast is a prime favorite
in California.
No other simple undecorated story Of a
common sailors voyage has had any such
popularity. When the gold fever was on
in 1919 everybody wanted the one book that
told OF California, and ever since whatever
has directed attention TO the Pacific has
stimulated the sale OF Two Years Before
the Mast" It Is still thumbed to greasy
ruin in low sailors boarding houses and
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-26

Governor cllehrlst has been invited
b ere Governor Of tie state ol Wash
ingtou, and the President of the Good
Roada Association o. Washington, %
send two delegates % represent The
Stale Of Florida &c tie First Amerlean
Congress Of Read Bultdess. 70 b held
az 8eattlo, Washington, July & % 8
1909. n che Good hoads Building Of tie
UnIVersiiy Of Washington
Governor CiIchRIss would b pleased
30 consider the nnfnes Of any tlorldlang
who are N position 60 atleae such Con-
gross &c delegates from f'prida.
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-26

tethfr, Ia our garden grew
IwC white hlhos, fair - view
Iin Ibg Gardener canae one dly.
And one blossom bore away.
Fair Hi6 g arden was % see
Growing green with shrub and Tree ;
Bot he found an eupiy BED
ID % 1owcF tenabted
Digging deep. Sc blasted thafe
Or enc tidy, growing feif
Never can a-tIng spTOut
PROM The chilly cod look out.
Master, IN that Garden bed
Oar sweet a0Wer lieth--dead
Smiled the Master NAY, not 20
GroenlY doth thy flower grow.
BeeutIfui Il was 20 zee,
And the Gardener gave L Ne I"
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-26

There Wili Be ~ Easter Entertain
msnt at Trialty Metboalqt Church San
day night, April iith. $50. ~ tho BOYS
and girls Ok ehe Junior League. VIII
have "a entertaining proEIamne 81
special music, roeltAtiong and songs
The church win b. prettlly Decorated.
a cordial invitation extended % ~ TIE
people ln the city.
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-26

IhcGsisy aftegnbea, Lnde H1eeaft.
& norfa WOMAN lglnF at ~ W ho6I.
soa street., DIED f1oln hg1Ior ot|4 NoE
waa bitten io1t Tires UNeEf 40 - enc
Sane 8nQ nhIfh n[Iaetf enc a 8I
CoNn oneF MtItn Her dalh &
- N a. have been ofa u f&e n1a.t tr.
AIS ever Hllae1.et Ia .tIa ely.
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-26

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TIE Garden ~ God, and Il weieacd 1na
rendered ard loved. by tie AI-Rathsf,
WhOee love = even greater than that 81
lbie babg's earthly father and mother
9sy that lh0uEht bring % taem a.
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The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-26

The regular monthly meeting Of the
Wcmnn'G Home Missionary Society of
Trinity Methodist Church VIII Be held
n the church Tuesday afternoon, March
S0th, &c $50 o'clock.
Devotional services win be conducted
81 Mrs. i. w. Moor. The topic,
''CouDting che Co5t'' OF tlthing. viii -
discussed. The second Yicu-pfesident,
Mra. Buyers, will rad B selection On
Delight n Giving" Annual reports
VIII ~ read ~ The corresponding secre-
tary and Treasures. L.et each member
respond % roll cell With tie hame0 % or
deacOnass o. workers. end lall ere work
they are doing. Thia y ne FIRST mast
Inc in the new year, Oh nembers are
earnestly requested % attend It 9lli
50 an open meeting Visitors ere cor
daily Invited % cons.
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-26

Miss Cline, tho Director Of TIE Tallt-
haasee Musical Club, e absent from
the elly this week, but tha club msm-
bef1 continue their pfaetleings with NM
abeted Enthusiasm. Meedames Myers
end Perkins kindly consented % con
duet Ire reheaFsaln Of the men last
Tuesday night, and Wednesday after
neon the ladies' met togekher. There
we also 8 special meeting Of the first
end second contraltos &c The reaidenee
~ Sc. j "A. EdmOndeon Last night,
WhIIe tomorrow afternoon the FIRST and
second sopranos win NEST with Mrs.
Myers at her home.
fhe club Il doploring the fast that
Miss Eleancr Bendricks0n q compelled
% return home before the meeting 81
the State Music Teachers' COngentIon
o. the I4th 81 April. Miss Hendrickson
vas TIE leading eontralto end he'd seye-
raj ieadIng parts IN the Holy City, "
the ofstoRlo b b rendered b. the club
during The convention, and the club b
exceeding 10Th % give her up.
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-26

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Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-12-10
new CHINESE
MINISTER Will
ARRIVE TODAY
BY Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 9-Yung
Qui, the first secretary of the Chi
nese legation at Washington, ar
rived today to extend an official
welcome to Chan Yin Tang, the new
Chinese minister to the United
States, who will arrive from the
Orient on the steamer Mongolia to-
morrow The new minister's party
includes over 60 persons, among
whom are score of students who
will enter the universities of this
country. Tang will depart for the
legation at Washington Monday.
Among matters which the local
Chinese will discuss with the rep
resentative of their country will be
the factional fight between the Yee
family and the On Yick Tong, which
has thus far resulted in the murder
of eight Chinese on this coast.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-12-10
ASH TAFT TO
IMPROVE INLAND
WATERWAYS
BY Associated Press

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-Assur-
ances that steps of an important
character toward the development
of the system of waterways i'm
provement in the heart of the coun-
try will be taken by the present
congress were given by President
Taft to a delegation which was re-
ceived in the east room of the White
House today. A delegation of 300
members was present from the Ohio
valley, the object of the visit being
to enlist the presidents support
for a nine-foot channel from Pitts
burg to Cairo all the year around.
Four governors and two ex-gov-
ernors headed a committee of 500
which had been charged by the New
Orleans convention to present to the
president formal resolutions asking
for a 14-foot channel for the Mis-
sissippi.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-12-10
MURPHY BEGINS CAMPAIGN
TO BOOST WARD
BY Associated Press

CHICAGO, Dec. 9.-President
Charles w. Murphy of the Chicago
Nationals left today for New York
to launch his campaign to elect John
NJ. Ward president of the National
league.
Before leaving Murphy issued a
signed statement that he would sup
port Ward for the presidency, and
gave his reasons. One point in
Murphy's platform was that Ward
must give up his law practice en-
tirely if he accepted the presidency.
Murphy refused to discuss the re-
port that Charles G. Williams, sec
retary of the local National league
club, would be the secretary of the
National league if John A. Heyd-
ler, the incumbent, were not re,
elected.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-12-10
RACE FOR SUPREMACY IN
The WORLDS GREAT NAVIES
United States and Germany are in the Race
for Second Place---Great Britain
Leads the Powers.

largely to her torpedo boat destroy
ers, of which she has 81 against
our 80. Germany also outnumbers
us in the matter of large guns, hav-
ing 20S against $50. OF fighting
vessels the American tonnage is 49,
900 in excess of Germany.
Great Britain has 104 fighting
ships, with a total tonnage of l..
4S0,6S0. France has 46 fighting
vessels, the tonnage of which is
more than 100000 tons less than
that of either the United States or
Germany. The difference is due to
the fact that larger proportion of
her ships are cruisers.
The book shows a total appropri-
alton of $1,416,13S,44S for con-
struction of our navy since it was
begun, in 1888.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-12-10
SIXTY SACKS OF ORE
YIELD 100000 IN GOLD
BY Associated Press

NEVADA CITY, CAL, Dec. .
Sixty sacks of what is called jewelry
ore were taken from the Sixteen to
One mine, near this city, and has
just produced 100000 in gold.
The ore was run through the
Oustamah mill for two days. The
rock was so rich that the mill was
forced to stop hourly to allow the
batteries to be cleaned, immense
quantities of amalgam clogging
them. The stuff also clung to the
stamps, and it was found necessary
to raise them with block and tackle.
This was the richest crushing of
ore ever put through any mill in
California in the same length of
time. The mine is owned by half
dozen men and none of the stock
is for sale.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-12-10
Ry Associated Press

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-The
navy year book, compiled by Pitt
man Pulsifer, clerk of the senate
committee on naval affairs, shows
that the race for second place in
the navies of the world is close be-
tween the United States and Ger
many. This country has 45 fight
ing ships (battleships and armored
cruisers) built, building or provided
for; Germany has 46. But the ag-
gregate tonnage for the United
States is 659,241 against 54,334
for Germany. Germany has a larg-
er number of smaller vessels than
the United States, her total tonnage
being S20,692 against 7S5,6S7 for
this country. Germany's superior
ity in respect to, all vessels is due
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-12-10
HEAR DEMANDS THAT
RATES BE REDUCED
BY Associated Press

WASHINGTON, Dec. "a ques-
ton involving hundreds of thous-
ands of dollars was argued today
before the interstate commerce COM
mission.
Originally the matter was pre-
sented by the Copper Queen Consol-
idated Mining company and the An
aconda Copper Mining company,
against all of the railroads doing
business between West Virginia and
Pennsylvania points, and points in
Colorado and Montana.
The petition charges that the
freight rates on coal from West
Virginia and Pennsylvania points t.
the copper smelters in Colorado apt
Montana are excessive and unlaw
full
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-12-10
Will OPERATE
TIN MILLS With
NON-UNIONISTS

BRIDGEPORT, O., Dec. 9.-One
thousand cots were placed inside
the tin mills stockade tonight by the
guards employed by the American
Sheet and Tinplate company, where
strike has been in progress for
several weeks, with rioting break
ing out during the last ten days. 1t
is predicted that, instead of dis
mantling the plant, as has been
threatened, it is the purpose of the
company to make final attempt to
operate the mills with imported
non-union labor
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-12-10
MOVING PICTURE
SHOWS ASSASSINATION
OF PRINCE ITO
(Associated Press)

. VICTORIA, B. c., Dec. 8
= A moving picture of the assas-
. sination of Prince Ito, at Har-
= bin, is to be used in the trial
= of the Korean assassin, ac-
. cording to advices received by
y the steamer Kaga Maru, which
. arrived today from the Orient.
= A Russian photographer had
. prepared to make moving pic
= lures of the meeting of Ito and
. Russian Minister Kokovostoff,
= and caught the assassination
. scene upon his film. The Jap
. anese officials obtained the
. film, which is 500 feet long.
. showing every detail of the
. tragedy, which will be exhib-
. tied in court at the trial of the
. assassin.
. = . . . . = . . = %%% 80
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-12-10
DOMESTIC TROUBLES
CAUSE TWO TRAGEDIES
Oakland is the Scene Of Murder, Attempted
Murder, Suicide and Attempted Suicide

street in front of the machine, and
shot the physician through the
heart. Jacobs then ran around the
corner and sent a bullet through
his own head. His condition is crit
ical
Upon returning to his rooming
house tonight Fred Schenck opened
fire with two revolvers upon Mr..
and Mrs. j. A. Jones. Mrs. Jones
is probably fatally wounded, but her
husband escaped unhurt. Schenck
then shot the top of his head off.
He seemed to be laboring under the
impression that Mrs. Jones was re-
sponsible for his wife leaving him.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-12-10
NO CASES OF
H IMAM PLAGUE IN
San FRANCISCO
Bv Associated Press

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-The at
tention given to plague conditions
on the Pacific coast by the surgeon
general, the public health and ma
rine hospital service, was made pub
lie in the annual report today. No
cases of human plague occurred In
San Francisco in 1909, but four
cases of rat plague were discovered.
The service has been engaged in a
war of determination of rats, ground
squirrels, and all small animals.
While many squirrels were killed on
the coast, only in Contra Costa
county, California, was a serious
condition of infection found among
them.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-12-10
COULDN'T GET DEPUTIES TO
PROTECT STRIKE BREAKERS
BY Associated Press

BEDFORD, Ind, Dec. 9.-"Tell
Sheriff Box to do his duty or re-
sign" was Governor Marshalfs mes
sage today to State Labor Commits
sioners Slough and Woerner, who
are here with Adjutant General Nc
Coy of the state militia, investigat-
ing the situation in the strike of
the cutters in the stone quarries.
Sheriff Box answered that he could
not persuade business men to serve
as deputies to protect imported
strike breakers.