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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-23
Forecast of Coming Books
Points to German Romance
London Literary Letter

Special Correspondence
Y UNDON. Jan, 6.-During the last
year on two a favorite line with
English readers has been French
biography and now o. is ro-
ported that tho next craze" ln this
line is 90 be German personal char
acter sketches one Or two uromi-
nent English scholars are already en-
gaEcd bon doing into English some
OF the lighter phases of this class of
German literature. and the name of
Augusta Won kocngsmarck is likely
90 figure somewhat prominently during
the coming book season
The romantic movement 10 Germany
has "a good chance of exploitation Doc
suggesting tHIs subject 90 publisher.
remarked. ga number of the heroes
and her0.ues boo the German romantic
period conducted themselves Don such "a
way us t0 make their lives extremely
entertaining $50. Wu shall probably
see "a Iot of books dealing with "uoW-
ly discovered personalities whose
names win ue more ur less uuuTU-
n1unccahlc. but whose lives win doubt
less prove fascinating Germany Is
spriukled aN over with romantic castles
and the tales connected with "a mum.
ber on these 0ut-of-tho-way places win
make thrilling reading.
DECLINE lN ORIGINALS.
some interesting figures have been
recently published concerning tho proc
ducti0n of books lu England duIuE
the year just closed Tho main ieH-
ture Of tur IHat "book season. has
been the numerous cheap repruis 0u
tho market There has been steady
decline u t1e bringing uut of original
work 0f fiction history. memoirs. tr.
ugion aud education. strangely
enough ho only subjects which have
shown au Increase oft original work
are Voyages. and poetry AS to thD
last named. though everyone Win trII
you that poetry is absolutely "de-
ceased. stlI ia certain amount of OI-
iginal work has been published
Mould-bc poets should NOT. however
take tha as "a "up' On begin prniur-
Ink. as. while faW books 0f poetry
have been published boo publisher has
admitted 90 having made anything
from them
purng tho year iust past while
ISIS nov books 0f action have been
brought Out there have also been g6J
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does that prevent anyone calling in his good old family
physician in of need and trusting him? There are
shystes but there also honorable lawyers whom
confidently trust our lives and fortunes.
There are fake medicines advertised; but they are
fakes because they are advertised good thing is worth
advertising we all want know about it, The more
bad thing is advertised the worse for it in the end
Lydia +. Pnkhams Vegetable Compound is fake
yet it is advertised it advertises itself and those who
have used it It's best advertisers and that free OF cost
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This simple old-ashoned remedy made from roots and
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Read this plain, honest statement of what the medicine
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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-23

quality Mark Twain may hnd himself
10 operate circles vet
no Monterey Stevenson lived "a life
ui desperate shifts. says recent mag
1zine article. So low did his n
nau'es rum that DE went 10 San Fran
cisco and undertook 90 do newspaper
work. while living in "a han bedroom in
cheap ittl' house in Bush street and
not expanding more than IS cents % day
upon his meals. There was rcstau-
rant iu Gc3ry street near Kcaruy.
called the Popular place that news
paper men often potrouizcd because Of
lis wonderful "tWo-bit' dinners. and
10 was here that stevenson often re-
sorted. Tho restaurant had an OK
leh-iVe, snowy front with piles of
iiult ln the windows and many pies
ana cakes, and inside iu the great,
clean, airy room you could actually get
H good plate OF SOUP, "a tender steak.
% piece OF roast. "a salad and desert
win coffee. Tea or Wins-not bad wine
cilheI-tor % cents, and mo- tip what
ever to pay How ] wish now that 7
had known the gauut keen-eyed.
scolch-lookiug young fellow over tbar.
at ihdt table in the corner as Robert
Louis stevenson, Would not that hay.
been something And TO think that
hc WAS lonely Immersed in the ter
riblo solitude of % large city. and want
ed % compartment
For four days" he writes at this
period 81 have spoken 60 no one bu.
my landIHdy on landlord or 90 the res
taurunt walters Not a gay way TO
pass Christmas rs it?"
Tie made but few friends. and none
that ] know OF among the newspaper
folk. although he laid seigc to the Of
fees daily Boa the Notwithstanding task
OF trying to sell impossible manu-
scripts. From what the editors tell mo.
these were chiefly literary reviews and
impressions at travel They were palms.
takingly written and some ~ them
We're in Stoyonson's best vein. but alack
they were not available
Tho Macmillan company announces
the third volume of the Variorium edi-
lion of Beaumont and Fletcher, which
De- being issued under the general edi-
turship of Mr.. a. n. Bullen. The vol
ume contains five plays, viz: "The
Faithful Shepcrdess.' edited by MI
w. w. Greg The Mad Lover" and
"Rulc Wife and Have a Wife" ed
tied by MI r. Warwick Bond. "Thc
LOYAL Subject edited by Mr.. John
Maseheld with am Introduction BY Mr..
II. Warwick Bond. and '"rhe Laws OF
CANDY edited by Mr. e. X. cham
beers.
England now has "a Simpiified SPELL
ing Society OF which Professor Skeat.
the eminent etymologist is president.
and William Archer. the dramatic
critics secretary This organization is
entirely distinct from the American So
ciety OF the same name. which some
time ago distinguished itself by print
ing iu an seriousness i'm a booklet one
OF the lnimitablc letters or Jennie Al
Ion which had fooled so astute HUI
morist as Mark Twain on this subject
of simplhcl spelling Jennie herself has
written sagcly;
THIS change On spelling comes from so
many folks breaking away from an
kinds OF law, human and devine and
legislative. and its one of the begin
uIngs OF anarchy as I look at a., as
Wcll els thinning out religion. What
kind OF a sight would tho Bible make
printed out In the new manner" Could
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-23

we have as much respect for the
Apostle Pol ESQ wrotel as we do with
hls hipthonE ln the place Dc has oc-
kipied Tor ceuturlcsY"
The encouraging outlook Tor poetry On
this country WIS aet forth in letter
from Thomas Bailey Aldrich to Mndi-
son Cawcin. which was written in 1902
but which has just boon published
through permission of the Kentucky
po"l lu che course off the letter Mr.
Aidrich wrote ~ believe Boa o. splendid
literary Future Cor This country After
tkc ull-absurbiue noteuets hive run
th'ir course, Wo ~hun have genera
lion, not OF poets. perhaps but OF
dfimutItts- hlouk-vcrsc fellows fm-
aginatiou ls not going Goo come to uotl-
ing To- vast nation like ours ! would
IKE to look in on the United Stltes %
hundred and fifty years from now,
Maybe ] should como across volume
upon volume OF anuotatIous ou Ca
Woiu's Poems wrongly attributed to j.
WhitcoWh Riley 1r perhaps 90 Bacon,
Tor there win stiI bo material for the
t1'lNIIcr iu 2o52 a. H.
Since Mr. Aldr.ch wrote thus en-
couwgmcly regarding iho prospects for
his friend CaVcus Immortality. the
Louisville Norto-mgFcr bias found an
unfn.st of Dis growing fame Boo tho proc
uucu"H ol very elaborate edition do
uNc of h.s po.ms which Mossr- Small
Maynard o. Go. have just brought
out
Arcut tao disturbances at 81 Pierre
Miquolun. the tiny colony or the New
foundlard coast which has been giving
$50 much anxiety To the French govern
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NOTES

Whether or not Han Gaines recently
printed material ON Wilkic Collins has
Wckeuod public interest in o remark
able writer 10 is certain, 90 book de-
uauds are Indicative that Collins has
been widely read during the last few
months. The copies an the Harper lists
of both "The MonstOuc and the Woman
iu White" have been exhausted and
new editions are following forthwith.
II was less than six months ago that
both these books went into new print
ms
Since Mr. Fayersham returned for his
present season iu New York his old sue
cess "rheS suaw Man." has had re-
print on the Harper press This book
was noyelized by Mrs Faversham Miss
Julie Cpd. working iu collaboration
with the playwright Edwin Milton
Royle Another novel which was made
from 20 play has just been reprinted
Tho Wltcihng Hour" OF Augustus
Thomas
Katherine Cecil Thurstou is one OF
the most popular living English authors
iH America. Her novels. THE Circle.
THE Masquerader' THE Gambler"
and her latest story. Tho Fly on the
wheel WhlCh appeared tnls autumn
under the imprint OF Dodd Mead g.
Company, have each added 20 her fame
Her husband r. Temple Thurstou is.
however, perhaps not so widely known
.n ths country. His career has been
one of unusual interest. and we believe
s. is not generally known that De has
written several books. beginning with
volume of poems at tho age of De-.
and ending with "Mirlr,.." 81 novel lust
published On this country hr Dodd.
Mead 81 Company.
Mark Twain viii not Doe surprised
that Tho Prince and tho Paupcr" has
rushed on 90 press again Regularly
every Christmas tho available copies
of This book arc bought up No story
hy amy author can 50. with 10 for the
little folk. and III 10 ever grows "old-
fashioned 1t win not bee INA the life
time of among those living" And 10
ihe music of the purposcd new operctt3
from This book IS made of as durable "a
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-23

Guuter's Magazine for February be-
gins with complete novel, THE cup
of the pharoahs' by Helen Tompkins
IL is an absorbing tale of mystery. iu
which many exciting elements are WOW
600 iuiD guiek-moylng action. To AN ap-
pearauces "a murder has been commit
ted in o deserted Arkansas house and
Ml The evidence points Oh "a beautiful
young woman as the murdenoss. Not
until the very end of the story does the
reader learn the solution of the baf-
fling mystery which centers consider
ably around priceless ioWoled cup
and IT'S deadly secret. Thunder Ridge"
by George WgthcrlI Earl. Jr, is a
stirring western mining story with "a
strong dramatic announcement Au-
other good short story is "Tho Slveo
Treasure of the Golden sand. by Walt
er Wood. % tale Of adventure ON sea-
and land u search Of a lost treasure.
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THE ROSE AND TIE BEE.

7 picked rose with fragrance most enchanting.
Aud shades and TIM. of colo, -arrl, found
As ! raised the blossom fondly tu cidoy q.
\ bee few out anu dealt wicked wound.
found friend, almo-tdl,uc before me
purcr life. mcthought, had never known:
ono day di-igurcd my ideal.
Aud all my love for that dear one had flown
But what a,nils me loss OF friend, or noucr7
For the frcnd is the rose; the bee tho decd unlir,
80 many guests uubiddcn our errors
Aud Love must To faults be- blind
Paul NandcrCikc Ia Nautilus.
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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-23

For 30 years Lydia r. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound has been the standard remedy for
female ills. No sick woman does justice 10
herself who will not try this famous medicine.
Made exclusively from roots and herbs, and
has thousands Of cures 10 Its credit.
TfNf<l~ II the slightest trouble appears which
atAlf YOU do not understand, write 20 Mrs.
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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-11-02

(The Carolina Union rms

(The Carolina Union Farmer.)
Some of the city papers persist in
declaring that farmers are getting
rich' on II cent cotton and Accent
cotton seed. In another column Pres
ldet Alexander gives some figures
which show just how fast a man can
get rich growing cotton at Il cents.
IL the Yerag farmer is very econOm-
lcal he may. by his own labor. clear
something like S125 a year In two
years he would get rich enough to buy
a 5000 mule. If he had no bad luck
and didn't spend anything for the
c~onyeniences and comforts of life, he
might be able to save enough money
IN eight or ten years to buy an auto
mobile. The only fellows who have
the fellows who 'farneI' other people
and pocketed the fruits of somebody
elseS abor. Nc man has gotten rich
on the farm by his own labor. If
some Of the city editors want to salts
fy themselves that the farmers are
not getting rich, let them try it one
year, behind a mule, all alone. If
stock and land were furnished free.
they would be sufficiently amused at
the end Of the year and they wouldn't
nave anything more to say about far
mers getting rich" The price of
cotton now isn't any better han 8 or
3 cents cotton a few years ago. Re-
~ liz un"iSe dCl1O1 O1 spin
ners in trying to beat down the price
OF cotton, Richmond II. Edmonds,
editor Of the manufacturers Record,
makes the following comment: "As
a matter Of fact, even at present fig
ureS yielding to the farmers the profit
which should be Won out by this, ma
lures greatest monopoly. Consider
ing the increased cost Of production
and h i~ncreasedcost Of living, it is
doubtful whether 13-cent Gotten is
giving better net results to the pro-
Queer than SOr9-cent cotton would
have downe seven or eight years ago.
To assume that the world will not
consume this entire crop, even if cold
at Is cents a pound, is absurd to any
man who is thoroughly familiar with
the worlds business conditions and
who recognizes that, until an article
reaches a practically prohibitory price
consumption is not materially l~essened
by what, under other conditions
might have been regarded as a high
price"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-11-02
Looking the Facts in the Face.
Reporter.)

It used to be popular to inquire
.Why raise any corn at all, when you
can take one acre of ~taODacco and
buy all the corn that can be raised on
ten acres?' But TINS drSu1iienl,
which has always been soph1stry, VIII
lack a good deal Of being swallowed
by any sensible farmer these days. II
is rather the reverse. Take an acre
Of corn raised with as much care,
preparation, and net expense as the
same in tobacco would receive from
the average farmer, and you nave
more clear prot than you can reap
from 10 acres in bacco This may
sound like a fairy dream to those VINO
have neVer learned to count net re-
suits. and to look unpleasant facts ID
the face. But it's so. It's proved by
the testimony of the best farmers OF
stokes county, who are growing corn
at a cost of 23 cents per bushel, when
they can sell at $1.25-a net profit
of $61.20 per acre. But will any rea-
sonable person aver that can
be produced today at less than 10 cents
per pound? We must, therefore, con-
clude that opposed to the corn proht
of $61.20 per acre, there is a loss ;h
tobacco culture of $40 to the acre.
In the face of these facts what snail
We say Of the farmer who still lays
out his lands to tobacco, with only a
half-hearted, slipshod, careless prep
aratiOn for those n~eceSsar1eS or lie
which require yearly more than the
value of his tobacco crop to buy!
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-11-02
WHO CAN BEAT 1T?
GIen0on. n. c., DC

Glen0On, n. G., Oct. %.
To the Editor: The Chatham Re-
corl reports Mr.. T: M. Bland,s fifteen
acres Of corn, and asks: Who can
beat it," And here, as usual. Major
London shows his kind-heartedness by
coming at them with q fifteen acre
block. Sense in this. Nonsense in
his acre business. I hav always been
familiar with this brag acre man and
method. He has a brag patch and in
man in the county, but only on his
brag patch does he do this. The gem
eral average yield OF his farm is so
low that I have many times seen them
buying Western corn before planting
time the next year.
[ have been so much disguised by
his 'brag acre business that were I
a Judge in a corn field contest I would
admit to the contest nothing less than
a i've acre field-and only the general
average at that.
It is the general average Of the
farm that counts, and the genera av-
erage of the whole farm must be in
creased before we come into our own
in agriculture. When we do this we
will be a great State with q big G,
for our population is largely agricul-
tura1. That kind of agriculture would
build up thriving cities and towns all
over the State.
That's right, Major London, stick to
your fifteen acres. The little brag
patch fellow is not in it. They don't
count. Couldn't beat it if they did.
Chatham is next to Moore and we are
raising some corn. too Also the gen
eral average of our farms.
NJ. EUGENE STREET.
but. while in the long run. as DR..
Street points out, the average Of the
whole crop is what tells the tale, the
contest system ca a single acre does
much good. Many farmers-particu-
larly young farmers-who could not
make experiments or a whole field,
can do so on IN acre. They will get
the best seed from the acre and the
next year, by reason Of what they
learned, will be able to improve the
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-11-02
More Wheat Being Planted Than for
Twenty YearS-CrOps Short.

Scotland Neck, Oct. 27.-For many
years the grinding Of wheat in this
region has been almost entirely aban-
doned, but for the past two years
there has been some tendency among
the farmers to plant wheat again. and
quite a considerable acreage is be-
ing put in wheat this season. Your
correspondent has been making some
particular inquiries, and one business
firm here which deals largely in such
things, says that they have sold more
seed wheat this season tt an they have
sold in twenty years past altogether.
Some farmers are planting wheat
for stock feed in the place of oats,
While others are planting it for flour.
Much rye has been SOWn also, and
about every farmer has planted some
clover.
Crops in this part of the county are
short. Perhaps a safe estimate on the
cotton crop is one-third less than last
e The peanut crop is disappoint-
ing. The vines grew large enough,
and some farmers thought they "a
a fair crop, but now that threshing
has commenced, they find that the
peanuts are very light and the yield
is poor. The corn crop is exceedingly
poor.
Your correspondent asked Of one
who had taken a long trip through
servatiOns on the corn crop. His re-
ply was: There is no corn crOp on
which to make any observation
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-11-02
Vindication of Southern Lands.
(Richmond News-Leader.)

Through many years people every
where in the country have believed
that the Southern farming lands were
worn out. We have heard all this
time of the rich virgin lands Of the
West as offering the best and practi-
cally the only hope for the ambitious
farmer. The South has accepted and
endorsed this opinion, which has car
ried from us many scores Of thousands
of young men and u best
blood and strength. Now we are be-
ginning to learn that the Southern
soils are the best on the continent It
we Will learn how to use them n
what to do with them. The king corn
show at the recent Virginia State Fair
was a visible and ASTONISHING revelation
to Virginia people Of what Virginia
soil can bring in corn. Old farmers
who had been working With our SOIL
faithfully all their lives and who sup
posed they knew all about it never
would have believed that such corn
could be produced in this State n
in such quantities if they had not seen
it with their own eyes. This means
that the farmers, like the doctors. the
mechanics, the manufacturers and the
merchants, must keep their minds
open to learn new things and to use
for their own advantage the constant
discoveries Of science and develop
ment of inventive genius.
The Columbia, S. c., State prints the
account Of a farmer Of that State who
his year made an average OF more
than 116 bushels of good corn to the
acre on ordinarily good upland. We
believe South Carolina holds the ban
ner for corn production, a farmer
of Sumter county competing for q
prize having grown 22O bushels Of
corn on an acre of special and specially
~prepare1 land. This last man with
his 116 bushels to the acre proves,
however, that with his system Of Gull
tivation and fertilizing and the result
ing production he gets more actual
cash value from his land than he
would have done with cotton even az
IA cents a pound. What one man can
do another can do, especially when
he has been shown how. There is no
use arguing against facts. n the
facs are before us. Tney seem 70
nroye that Southern lands properly
treated and managed will bring a bet
ter average Of cash returns to the
farmers than the richest and newest
lands of the West.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-11-02
FARMERS, ATTENTION:

Go Over your feed bills for the
1909 crop and YOU will find that item
was a heavy expense. The corn crOp
this year is nOt sufficiently large to
reduce prices materially; consequent
ly. the year 1910 will show h gh-
priced grain, an unfortunate COndi-
ton for those who are compelled to
buy. During the month of October
yOu can still do much to educe you
fed bill for next yea Sow any Or
all of the following and You will not
regret it:
uTrf oats. red oats, rye, wheat.
yetch and barley if land is strong.
No section of our country can be
truly prosperous that buys it's food
for man and beast. and this is par
ticulariy true at present, when the
prices Of all food products are high.