Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-14
MCDuff, Editor

Editor,
 Monthly Fiction,
 London, England.
 Dear Sir:-For ten years my sis- ter and myself have been constant readers of the Monthly Fiction. Since reading that disgraceful story en- titled "A Divorcee's Affinity" in lhe pages of this months publication of vour magazine, we can no longer ss respectable ladies have your magazine in our home. Therefore please discon- tinue mailing Monthly Fiction to us' and refund the remaining balance dne from our subscription, as per contract. which we shall immediately donate 10 the Womau's Anti-Vice society.
 Respectfully,
 (Miss) TABITHA DIGGS.
 The editor wearily cast the letter aside, as he rang the bell.
 sNicDuff." he said to the cheerful faced young man who answered, Can eel the Tabitha Diggs subscription. and refund any balance there may be immediately"
 There's only one month to run on that subscription, sir. Shall send the fOurpence2"
 That's what said" the editor snapped. as he turned once more to his mail.
 The Tabitha Diggs letter had been but one of a score received from var ious parts of the country since the publication of the January number of the Monthly Fiction, protesting in terms various, but in substance the same, against the immoral" dis graceful" "wickedly licentious' story of "A Divorcee's Affinity"
 Besides letters from subscribers the unfortunate editor had perused a like number from ministers of the gospel. whose attention had been drawn to the January issue of the Monthly Fiction by a member of the Church" etc.
 What to editors of a successful magazine was an everyday occur renee. was to the editor of the re- spectacle little Monthly Fiction a calamity.
 For thirty-five years he had been ! editor and owner of the modest little magazine, which for thirty-hve years | had just about paid expenses and a meager living, and not penny more.
 i Harris was quiet little man, ' | slave to custom, and scrupulously l conscientious. Never-never in the I many years he had sat in the editors ] chair in Shoe Lane had he ever re ceived a letter of condemnation--a i least never from ministers of thu 1 gospel. He had timidly dared to di verge from the narrow, beaten path ! and ruthlessly broken all Dreceden | by accepting a story other than ont } dealing with bread and butter hero ines and cricket-playing young men 1T [ fianneIs He had dared to print story of Iife-real life as 1t was. The author was a man whose stoI ies appeared in the most successful I magazines: who was literally socia lion: and yet. when Harris fnalll made up his mind to get reckless an' treat his readers to story, the prici of which was nearly prohibiuve t his little magazine. it had brough down a shower of cancelled subscrip tions and a torrent of ministeria abuse and eeHsure about his head.
 Two local clergymen called to per
 sonally exhort Harris to make wha reparation lay in his power 10 cour |. teract the wicked influence of tha story. hy selecting for future use ii the pages of the Monthly Fiction sucl
 articles as would uplift the moral ton . Of the magazine. and serve as al 2 apology for the story Of gross immoI
 ality which had. no doubt. so shocke 3 and scandalized every reader of tn
 January number.
 tl One of the clergymen subsequent - said he would not denounce tn
 Monthly Fiction from the pulpit, an
 laid a manuscript of his own pen ol ] the editors desk, saying that the ad
 dress where the cheque was to b
 sent would be found enclosed. q Upon opening the pages of closel
 written script letter, Harris read tn