The National tribune., 1909-06-17

suffering Job, and, in fact, one could
hardly ask for more satisfactory method
of revenge than this. To the uninitiated,
the making of book would seem to re-
quire but one thing-brains, and. those
supplied, all the rest is plain sailing. This
is true, OF course, as far as the mere
writing OF the book IS concerned, but
that over, the authors real troubles be-
gin in the shape o. annoying delays, III
sins of commission ard omission on the
part of printers ap!i proofreaders, and in
a thousand other iTritatlons which drive
the poor aU1hor nearly to suicide. And
then, wheii RMS beloved child of his brain
does appear, which il he has been thru
the mill before lie can only hope will be
all right. he IS lGcly man, indeed, il he
does not find in It's pages errors more
or less glaring. OF course, there is the
other side OF this QGestion-there always
is, but fcr tie purposes of this narrative
it is not necessary to touch upon it.. Our
genial friend Mark Twain, Americas ia
vorite hEmorisr, has just been tasting the
soul-rending trials attendant upon the
getting out of a new book. Mr.. Clemens
and it is, apparently, tho the title. would
not particularly suggest it, a contribution
to the goodiy number of books already
published which fairly bristie with proofs
that the so-cailed Shakespeare plays
p could not possibly ever have been writ.
len py Tile SO-CdltoU 1lDluOrldi Ddtu VI
Avon"-all OF which seems to many true
lovers of the plays a good deal like time
elaborately thrown away" as our friend
Edward Young remarks. In Mr.. Glenn
en;s's book he Incorporated some y pages
of work on the subject by the English
member of Parliament, George g. Green
wood, with the consent OF the author and
his publisher, of course, giving full credit
to both in a foot note. Mr.. Oemensis
book appeared recently, but without this
foot note, and trouble began at once
= The Member Of Parliament and his pub
Usher lost no time in bringing this little
oversight to the notice of Mr.. Clemens.
who has explained the matter by saying
that tine foot note was probably lost i'll
the composing room, as he can account
for its failing 20 appear at the proper
time and place in no ether way. One
does not need to be writer to fully ap-
preciate Mr.. Clemens state Of mind on
account of this annoying little contre-
tempts.
Among the wealthy leisure class in this
country are many women doing splendid,
Anna Morgan, daughter of j. z. Morgan.
the great inancier, are specially con
spicuous in this group of philanthro--
pists, and their various enterprises are OF
real interest to the public. Miss Morgan
has warmly espoused the cause of the
working man and woman, and has been
devoting herself Of late to the establish
ment Of luncheon in the Navy Yard at
Brooklyn, that the 2,000 workTnsn EN-
ployed In it might be provided with u
good, hot, nourishing noon meai at rea-
sonable cost. The consent of the Gov
eminent to the use of one Of the Yard
buildings for this purpose was obtained
By Miss Morgan, who then went ahead
with her plans, and the other evening saw
the formal announcement that her project
was an accomplished fact, and her res
taurant ready to open. This announce
ment took place at a meeting held in the
Government building which has been
was made gay with flags for the occasion
Miss Morgan made her maiden speech,
and when she came modesdy to the front
TO begin this, some OF the workingnien
in the audience with anarchistie. tenden-
cies began whistling and cat-caliing, try
ing to drown her voice. Miss Morgan
brayely persisted, however, and her sim
pie and sincere manner combined with
the earnestness OF her words completely
disarmed her audience, so that when she
finished she took her seat amid perfect
roar of applause.
Apropos Of the growing anarchistic
spirit in this country, which manifests 1t
self In the frequency of kidnapping cases.
Black Hand prosecutions OF various kinds.
etc. one can easily see how the boasted
freedom of the press in America affords
constant fuel for this dangerous FIRE. 1t
is not difficult to understand, for in-
stance, that starving men, in an an
archistic atmosphere, might be goaded to
some desperate act after reading The story
of Mrs. Howard Gould's extrayagance
and the almost Arabian Nights splendor
of the Howard Gould manner of living,
which has filed the papers lately. To
say nothing of Mrs. Goulds jewels and
clothes, of that one little bill of S1,52S for
shoes alone, and $5,S07 for five tailor.
made suits, which everyone knows are
necessarily quite plain. Think of one es-
tablishment for two persons including, be-
sides eight or ten carriages of all descrip-
tions with horses to match, and half q
mobiles. At town and country house the
Howard Goulds employed from is to is
servants in the house, 10 to u in the
stables, is or 20 on the grounds, and
from 40 to go laborers. On his
$1,000,000 yacht Mr.. Gould had accom-
modations for some 60 guests, and crew
of 80 men. 1t is absolutely immoral to
publish such accounts, and it should be
made an offense against the law TO do So
1t makes interesting reading, of course,
and every word is eagerly devoured by a
large class, very few being unable to re-
sist the fascinating headlines, but no pos
sible good and immense possible harm
follows the publication of every such &C.
count as that lately furnished us of the
reckless spending of money By Howard
Gould and his spectacular spouse.
There was a lively scene in the Custom
House of New York the other day when
some $4,000 worth of the smuggled fnery
We read about a short time ago which
Collector Loeb's enterprise had brought
to light was sold to the highest bidders.
There were about 1900 women present
besides lot of men representing large
department stores all over the country,
and the wild scramble for front seats
when the doors OF the room on the fifth
floor where the sale took place were
opened deies description. The men and
women fairly tumbled over each other to
heaven they were after they could not
ity. Gowns, equal In value to many that
torn, and the latest peach basket hats
were knocked ruthlessly to one side in
the endeavor to secure the advantage
There was quite a sprinkling of well.
known society leaders among the throng
who had simply brought their check books
with them, and who were thrown into q
fit almost when the auctioneer announced
that only cash and full amount would BIZ
accepted for each article sold. This hi
another lot of women who bad only pro
sided themselves with money enough Il
make a deposit on each purchase, ant
they, too, nearly collapsed ct the auction
GERS ruling. Whenever some gorgeous
Partisan creation went to a man, all the
women hissed, commenting audibly on hi.