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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-29

profitable seller out OF dozen novels that
he puts out in the course Of a year. And
in that case the one seller must atone to
him financially for the outlay he has
made in bringing forth the other eleven
non-paying novels. Of course, the pub
Usher with a novelist on his list whose
books sell largely is lucky man; but the
average reader Of current fiction will cas-
lily be able to count on the fingers of his
or her one hand just how many American
novelists there are who belong to this
class. Therefore the publishing of novels,
even at what the agitators call the too
big rate. nominally. of $50 per book.
isn't profitable. As very general rule it
is distinctly Improbable.
The agitators for the cheap original
novel apparently have no idea whatever
of how the money out of the imaginary
81 30 charged per copy is distributed.
The book that is bought by the retailer
to he sold not for s1.0O the circular
price, but for S1.0S, costs that retailer, as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-29

time; presently it happens. all of a sud
den. that the very best historical novel.
written, by the most noted adept at that
sort of thing, can't be given away.
The Slushy romance then, we'll say, en-
joys its vogue: the more treacly and the
more syllabubbisb the better. All of
sudden the demand for that sort of a book
stops, and the big heap of extra copies on
the publishers hands goes to the jobber
for a song. Then comes the strictly So
ciety novel. with its sophisticated patter;
il has its run; then it quickly passes. En-
ter the novel of rural life. The readers
reading the tooly loora1 novel, and then
drop it like a hot potato.
Public taste in novels can't be followed.
The publisher would have to have the
eye of owl TO penetrate and follow
that mystery. So he is gambling all the
time with the new pieces OF fiction he
puts out. Just now the taste is for eX-
cessiveIy SNUG and sedate novels of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-29

got into the crafty habit Of waiting until
the $50 book is reprinted in cheap fifty
cent form. and then buying 1t. And
they are the patientest little walters III
the world, these women folks who read a
great many novels. They don't see why
they should lay out s1.OS on a novel that
they know will be selling a year or two
hence for "A cents, and so they wait. and
the original edition, made up to retail for
sI.Os, languishes in consequence. -
certain firm of reprint publishers, strug-
Cling young men only a few years ago.
have now got this part of the business
fairly in their laps. Last year. 1t Is
authoritatively stated, they sold no less
than 100000 copies of the reprinted
novels of 1.-THE best writer's" at an aver
age net profit of : cents per copy. That
meant q profit of $oJ0,OoO for them on
the years business, but also it meant
knocking the regular original publishing
business into more or less of cooked
hat CLARENCE l.. CULLEN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-29
From Popular Mechanics.


The street car system Of Shanghai,
China, which has been in operation near
ly two years, consists OF twenty-six
miles of track, with an equipment %
s.xty-five cars. operated by 800 men, who
are as proficient any body OF street
car employees In America OF Europe. and
probably more careful as whole. The
men are OF various nationalities. mostly
Chinese. but up to June, 1902 when the
line had been in operation a year not
one fatal accident had occurred. The
percentage OF accidents has been very
small, and native trouble has been en-
tireIy absent from the start
Very great care is taken In selecting
and training men for the cars. The
medical examination. which Is handled
by Chinese doctors with European train
ing. includes sight and hearing tests.
After thorough schooling in the train
ing rooms. the applicants for positions
begin their actual work under expert
enced men, and only those are engaged
who on final examination prove efficient
The conductors work Is far from sim
pie. There are two ciasss OF tickets 10
handle, with four divisions i'm each class.
as well SIS monthly and coupon season
tickets. The payment for a ride con-
sists Of ten coins. OF which II takes
about three to equal an American cent
In value. Consequently the conductors
have to turn in each day Several times
the number of coins received by con-
ductors I'm America and Europe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-29
POST CARD MAKERS MISS ONE-BEST-BET

been stupendous sellers. One can see the
comic comet cards In Imagination. even
If none OF them has been manufactured
and sprung upon a waiting world.
The funny picture makers of the news
papers could easily have been beat to
it, by the comet cardmakers.
The souse5 individual, coming home at
in the morning. and saying M dear
(lic) | been ookin FIR comesh" with the
appropriate (hics) stuck in between each
word, could have figured most wonder
fully and pervasively on the comic"
comet cares.
All sorts of twists could have been put
on such cards. The burglar with the
usual eye-mask and the Bill Sykes chin
could have been represented shutting
over a roof. in the clutch OF a cop who's
climbed through the scuttle to snag him.
and the burglar could have been repre-
sented as saying, with convulsing effect
upon the scanners of such comet cards:
Hey, DO, amt done nuthin'; on'y come
I'D here to look f'r the comet, see?'' Oh,
it would have been all kinds O. larks,
There could have been fashioned all
sorts of comet cards depicting the ac-
customed row Of cats sGuatting OH the
back fence. looking up at blazing comet
with wide grin on its face. while the
customary bootjacks few through the
-illumined air from back windows.
Always the comet cards depict bootjack
as the missiles that are tossed at back
fence cats. despite the fact that there
probably isn't a human being in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-29

eased out OF his job plant and made the
game.
Oh. it's a shame, honest. that the comet
cards. especially the comic" ones.
weren't uncoiled on u.s. All of us'd have
gone to 'em. We'd have bought armfu!s
OF EN-, and sent EN- just everywhere.
laughing fit to kill as We wrote the supe--
scriptions and the clever little remarks
IN the writing spaces. AS 1t is now, We've
got To wait TIL the Fourth of July 10 get
busy sending comic cards of little boys
in the act of having their arms blown off
by giant firecrackers and suchlike, and
even the Fourth OF July comic" post
cards are in a fair way of being Grabbed
owing to the prospect almost universally
in this country of q sane Fourth.
The post card folks overlooked a g.gan-
tic bet in not getting out comet cards.
and they thereby deprived US Of a lot Of
whoopful and tit!llative pleasure that 9TH
erw!se we might have had.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-29

Jane Austen pattern-the novel that con-
tans nothing to furry the feathers of
the most guileess Young Pairson. The
publishers are advising their novelists TO
take advantage of the new tide. the
present day taste for the saccharine
novel; but before such books are ready
10 be sprung for the fall trade 1t is by
no means unlikely that the tide will
have turned again, and that the fiction
demand will be for books with more than
a soupcon of salaciousness The kinks
of the novel reading public are past all
finding out.
Therefore it happens that the publisher
is forever taking chances. not only with
the novels OF his new writer's. but with
the fiction product of his established
novelists; for the styles in fiction have
come to change rapidly that even the
novels of the established people, il writ
ten in "A vein that has temporarily pass
ed from fashion, quite commonly fall
dead.
More than half OF the 81 80 novels pub
lished in this country sell less than 1900
copies; a very large proportion of them
sell less even than 800 copies. The
publisher pays the freight in actual
money. lie can't possibly get back his
outlay on sale of less than 300 copies
OF novel: he finds himself in the hole,
therefore, on the majority of the novels
that he puts out.
The best known publisher OF fiction in
."e business j. lucky = ne iards oil one
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-29
Electric Mountain Air.
he New York Press.

From the New York Press.
DR.. Saaka finds that the air six thou
sand feet high in mountains Is five times
a. radioactive as sea-level air, and points
out that under this state of electrical
tension electricity would have a decided
attraction to and affinity for the human
body. and might be very beneficial or
might be the very reverse. ANY one
sleeping in a dry wooden house in the
Rockies will get an instant thrill of ex-
hilaration when he first sets foot on the
ground in the morning. Static mountain
electricity in Colorado sometimes scares
a man silly. The hair will stand straight
on end and a man feels the fiery tongues
licking and tapping the whole body as he
the tall timber to a lower level.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-29

HE most startling
and puzzling thing
in connection with
all this comet eX-
element and persi-
fiage is this:
The enormous bet
the manufacturers
of picture post
cards overlooked in
not getting out post
cards having to co
with the comet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-29
Not Guilty.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Doctor. why don't you sometimes de-
nounce wickednese I'm high places"
BLESS your soul, Brother Hardesty, l.
do, Have you forgotten that in my ser
mon Two Sundays ago / spoke SHARPLY
against tie practice OF flirting In the ele-
" - ii -. y tlains?''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-29
Had to Keep On.

From the Louisville Courier Journal
Il didn't. know you intended to 90
around the world.
II didn't when 7 started. But l went
through Europe without tipping and was
"frA 4 T. urn back.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-29

"Co1( otoi ~ OIL
fairy gibberish is
being talked and
wrictenof late about
the so-called de
nand for the fifty
cent novel" BY this
is meant the al
legged demand" for
the original novel,
fresh from the press,
in boards or paper
covers, by a novel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-29
CULLEN

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
NEW YORK, May 81,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-29

It is this system which has stopped
virtually, the big sale of the originally
published novel: for the women folks,
VI" 80 ti.a 'ra'n st"--s1 ls.'-'-.... =: =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-29

You escape setbacks dsaPpontments
because human quite control emotion lift the hood
from the face of Future
You must play the GAME and be prepared to its pen
aies. Therefore play for the bigger stakes Your ambition
rights try for the though do
back time and time again. to the starting point
Most of be with the lesser Lot but not with
ourselves until and and dernna
ton to the limit
There fixed stated hour for the turning of the tide
Wellington already grey at Waterloo Rothschid
in the of his life when he ked his all upon the fate
of Bonapae Fedenwad grandfather when his last dol
lar established the utility of the cork Zeppelin
venerable bankrupt before he achieved his Dream Mergen
taer urnked and starring while he worked the
very machine with which this sheet set in type
No great fortune attained without peril of misfortune
Men chiefly vary the degree of their tenacity Cow
arce and the main dUsors of soceyhe brave
are masters and the ,ueaklings
Intellect and skill cancelled by iresoution- SEAT
OF THE MIGHTY ARE BLR7F1RIGHTS OF THE SONS OF
HOPE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-29
By Herbert Kaufman

The hand that shuns the thorn must lose the Re-
wards always beet with risk Success lies behind spear
tipped wan-without gateway.
fyo tall you're FAIL You'll fare dare
Even bird try before it fly. 1t masters fright,
then flight Every effort brings to its Dne The
first uuasted-each tumble teaches
of position
INSTINCT old as Nature whispers to the helpless fedg-
ling that existence hangs persistence
You, too stand your bruse stand to lose.
handcap provided that they teach lessons
whose helpfulness offsets the hurt
Good judgment is Inheritance attained through
deduction experience the total that remains after
npetuosy and carenes and passion have been eliminated
from strength and ability
All have natural weaknesses just all metals are
cheapened by their sag Only the cucibe Of life refine
character.
The uital of all educaons that which subtracs
folly from force and tells of the things must not do
Before really schooled must all be fooled and
rued-cheaed and defeated Pain makes men sanewe do
not repeat the which do injury.
One by catalog the pitfalls of the past-year by
year experiments the ledgers of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-29
TELLS OF A BOOK PUBLISHERS PROFITS

visible remaining profit of Is cents per
copy on his novel. about the same amount
that the author gets. But, the author
has only made an outlay OF his time
whereas the publisher has to put out
the actual cash.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-01-28
Hon. John Sharp Williams, U

HOD. JOhn sharp WlIIlamS, u.
S. Senator Elect, in a public ad-
dress recently at Jackson, Miss,
used the following language about
the prairie belt of Northeast
Mississippi.
''This soil in it's natural condi-
ton is the best all-rOund farming
land in Mississippi. once heard
a Yankee Colonel say that during
the war he got enough corr out of
the crib on one plantation near
Egypt, Miss, to feed the men and
horses of a whole cavalry brigade.
Alfalfa, the clOvers and other
Iegumes, which are invaluable be-
cause in the process Of their
growth and feeding they build up
and enrich instead of exhausting
lands, and the grains of every
sort, large and small grow in
abundance almost for the sowing
and wishing, which is by the way,
about all they get in many cases.
On a line from Aberdeen in Ivan
hoe, to Culevonia in LOwndes
county during the last Senatorial
campaign I saw more good, and
less bad land than within an
equal area in my life whether in
Europe or America.
A part of Noxubee county is
simple a farmers paradise. l
would rather be able to give one
of my boys 1000 acres of such land
in parts of LOwndes, Monroe,
Clay, Noxubee, and other coun.
ties in the prairie belt than an
equal acreage in the "Blue Grass
of Kentucky, Or anywhere in Ill
inois, Iowa or Nebraska, not to
sell of course, because some lands
i'll these latter states are held at
$25O.OO per cent, and those in
prairie Mississippi can be bought
at from 500 to $50. But to cult
vate and live on-any soil which
will like this raise side by side
the finest crops of grain, alfalfa
and cotton is a fortune i'll ITSELF"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-01-28
NOTICE.

The tax payers Of Noxubee county,
Mississippi, will take notice that the
Board of Supervisors of said county,
for the purpose of repairing the court
house thereof, has determined to raise
Twelve Thousand Five Hundred Dollars
by the issuance of twenty year five per
cent. %non-option bonds of the County of
Noxxbee as provided for by section 331
of the Mississippi Code of 1906.
All taxpayers objecting to said pro-
pc ed issue Of bonds shall make their
objections known as provided by law,
at the February, 1910. meeting of the
board of supervisors Of Noxubee county,
Mississippi.
By direction Of said board, as per or
der in Minute Book IA at page 297, on
this January 4th, 1910.
JOHN A. TYSON, Clerk.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-01-28
Trustees Sale.
The Statnnf

The State of Mississippi. Noxubee County.
BY virtue OF the provisions OF q certain
deed of trust executed by Will N. Langford, and
wife Willie Langford, and Magnolia Hudson and
husband, Mat Hudson, Lula Mason and husband.
Melurn Mason on the % day Of Nov. 1905 to Chas.
Strong as trustee. to secure to Mrs. A. l.. Muir
phey a certain Indebtedness therein mentioned.
said trust deed being recorded in Deed Book No.
90 page 47 in Chancery Clerks office in said
County. |. the undersigned as trustee. will on
proceed to sell at auction to the highest bidder
FOR cash northwest quarter, northwest quarter
and that part of southwest quarter northwest
qnarter lying north Of the Mashulaville and
Shuqualak road. all in Soc. 30 r. II NJ. Z. 1G3 and
containing 3 acres of land.
The property mentioned in said trust deed to
satisfy said Indebtedness and the cost Of tins pro-
ceeding, CHARLES TRONG
This Is day Of Jan. 1910, Trustee.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-01-28
City Trees.

Macon is to be congratulated on the
number of beautiful trees. AS a
stranger coming to Macon the first
thing that attracted my attention was
these trees. However, some Of them
need trimming badly. A bunchy growth
is more beautiful than a slim and ragged
growth. If trimmed properly no orna-
mental shade tree will have a heighth
higher than twenty feet:
The City Light plant poles are are 35
feet, high enough to put all wires above
trees when properly trimmed. The
voltage will soon be increased to 23OO
volts, and this will be dangerous to the
trees, and to those touching a tree in
contact with these high potential wire
For this reason all the trees in streets,
and therefore property of the city, will
be trimmed to a heighth not to exceed
25 feet. If desired the city will give a
taxpayer privilege to trim the city's
trees in front of his property to suit
the taxpayers taste. In this case,
however, it will be necessary to trim at
once.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-01-28
oeadheads Who Must Be coaxed.

Concert givers in Germany find il
more and more difficult to get an audi
ence. Free tickets by no means in
sures one A Berlin journal tells how
audiences at recitals (Berlin often has
more than SO of them in one week.
are apt to be made up.
Miss n who plays or sings.
sends out about 200 tickets, some Of
them to prominent persons. One OF
these is the wife of Prof. K. She
kindly accepts the tickets, but has no
intention of attending the concert, so
she gives them to her dressmaker,
who in turn bestows them on her as
sistants. who possibly may go to the
concert. In one cas- it was found
that of 200 free tickets only At were
uSed.-Musical America.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-01-28
Death Of Miss Lizzie EiIand.

One of the saddest deaths that
has occurred in Macon or vicinity
for a long number of years was
that of Miss Lizzie Eiland, who
died Wednesday evening from
burns that she received about a
week previous at the home of her
father, Mr.. L. E. Eiland two
miles south of Macon. At the
time of the accident she was in a
room alone and tainted and in
falling her clothing caught fire
and her left foot and limb was Sc
verely burned. She fingered
about a week, but her burns
were so severe there was little
hope at any time that she would
recover. Her remains were in
tered Thursday afternoon at 2
O'Clock at the Odd Fellows GENE
terry after services at the residence
by Rev. Mr.. King. The family
have the heartfelt sympathy of
the community in their sad affic-
ton.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-01-28
a Ceremony Denied

A Vienna merchant who had spen
the summer vacation at Altenberg. at
ter reaching home sent an oil paint
ing of the Madonna to the authorize.
Of the vacation resort, with the re
quest that it be placed in the spring
house. He asked also that a prizes
be requested to oficiate when thu
painting was unveiled. Father Steir
of St. Andrews was selected = carl
out the recueG:., out sent word tha
re would not bless the picture unit
he had the assurance that the wifi
of the painter, land no other woman
had served as model. AS it was in
possible to secure this statement. tn
authorities had to dispense with tn
religious ceremony.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-01-28
Sheriff's Sale.

The State of Mississippi, Noxubee County
T. J. Evans,
VS.. Execution
Cumberland Tel. and Tel. Co. ,
By virtue Of the above writ directed to me from
the office of {. M. Scales circuit clerk, | will on
Monday, the Nth day Of February, 1910,
being the second Monday in February. 1910, at
the court house of said county, within legal hours,
sell by auction to the highest bidder for cash, the
following real property which has been levied on
by me as the property Of said defendant, and will
be sold satisfy said writ and all cost. to-wit:
Northwest quarter less school house lot Of one
acre in the northwest corner of the northeast
quarter of the northwest quarser Sec. -, r. Ii, K.
II and also the revisionary interest in the school
acre in the event it ceases to be used for school
purposes. Also the northwest quarter of south
west quarter Sec. -. 7. II. X. II f, and the east
half of the northeast quarter and the northeast
quarter of southeast quarter section II, Il. IA, K,
II 4. less one acre sold to e. G, Thompson adjoin-
ing his fish pond, Containing about BIG acres and
lyi94 In NoXulre county, Miss. subject TO mort
gage of record aCainE, same in favor Of /, +. au
lausanne Eiland and the British and Americas
Mortgage Co. A. y. INION
TaS Jan. 18th. 1910. Sheriff.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-01-28
Trustees Sale.

The State of Mississippi. Noxubee County.
BY virtue Of the provisions Of a certain deed Of
trust executed by Martha Nickleson and Laura
Bondens on the 18th day Of March. 1907 to II. II.
Brooks. Jr-, as trustee. to secure to Mrs. Fannie
Harrison a certain Indebtedness therein mention
cd. said trust deed being recorded in Deed Book
No. page in Chancery Clerks office in said
county. l, the undersigned as truestee. will on
Monday the 14th day of February 1910 in front Of
the door of the court house in the city of Macon.
proceed TO sell at auction to the highest bidder
for cash the following described property. in the
city of Macon, Miss.
Beginning AT an iron stob 81 feet north of the
southwest corner Of the lot deed by j. b. Nc
Leod to old Massey Wilson and running thence
north one hundred and twenty-three feet. thence
west one hundred and thirty feet. thence south
one hundred and twenty-three feet. thence east
one hundred and eighty feet to point of beginning
being the part of the north half of lot conveyed by
j, b. Mcleod to Lizzie Sample on March 9Th 1863
and being in FIR. Block sc Of Town of Maccn and
now being in FIR. block % according to Jonathan
Buck survey in 1875 and being the property we
bought from J. E.. Farmer in 1888.
The property mentioned In said trust deed to
satisfy said indebtedness and the cost of this
proceeding. H. H. ROCKS JR.
This Jan. Bird. 1910. Trustee.