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all the world like an afternoon tea at the
PlaZa. You must be considerate and
polite and remember your table manners
and recollect that everybody else under
stands English. If ever any one behaved
in public in all the world it is the young
men and young women and tourists at
Henriette's.
At henriette's. if you go on chicken
night. you may be a little late, but on
ordinary evenings you cen get away and
down to Iavenue's in time to get good
seat. Henriettes and Lavenue's com
plete the list Of Latin Quarter attract ions
usually doled out to tourists. Only you
must get to Lsvenues IS early, 80 you can
have seat where you can watch Max
play his violin and at tho same time COM
mand view OF the door. so you can SEQ
and nppraise the other guests as they
enter.
MEX grows more portly year by year
and Of late he has been affecting an Amerl-
can scorn for bear oil in his long hair, so
that in measure Iavcnuc's may be said
to be losing it's flavor. But still he plays
tho things the students and the Americans
like
You come to Paris to SEQ French types
but you go to Lavenues. where few
trenchmen ever penetrate. and there are
treated to end satisfied with the spectacle
OF your own countrymen furnishing q II the
typos you thought essentia lily French
tho self satisfied idler. the degenerate
genius. the cbsinthe poet and the IN
shockable young woman. Tho chief
occupation ct IAvenues is sitting around
the sides of one of the half dozen con
meeting rooms and looking at everybody
else
You order your cup OF coffee (which
OF course IL n glass) and on the strength
smoke cigarettes, while the rest of the
world looks on. II IL tine custom to decide
that everybody elise there Is & tourist
end to laugh up your sleeve nt the fem-
nine efforts at smoking The fact that they
, "re weighing you in the same fashion
matters not whit long ago you have
learned tho Latin Quarter quality ot ha-
,ng superior. even in the heart of ho-
hcma
II sounds like tame sort of amusement.
'Yt to hose to whom il is new. OF habit
II has contensetions Only to the oc,a
sional vhitof dues u seen, to ring IN lse
w t..so & il ..ii,' ui,fa,, i ~, u'ni ,ri ful
MI thae Ia IN way typ,V ot the A,neri-
"n lsi " OiE tor, hut tynicc of il faults
For y shows III. coiuhinr' ION oi AWriitau
corv"ntionrli'y end ps",si;.a caring. ~"
pr,iniiess II the ccrefully gus rdsd country
towns and the unbridlcu uaturHlncss u
this freeot VI CltlO.
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newspaper training. The Man Who
Came Back was written on a typewriter
downstairs in the parlor when the family
was selling. in u room upstairs. articles
of furniture that they didn't want to
take to the new house.
Jeffery Fsrnol is q diligent worker
who believes that night is the best for
writing. He does not set himself to his
task until the other members Of his family
have retired. He has been story teller
all his life. even in his boyhood days
when he related a narrative to his schoo |
friends that was not completed until the
end o: the term.
Rex Beach. Sir Gilbert Parker and
Kitchens are industrious and careful
workers. As nearly any of them will
tell you. writing is business and to make
q success of it the writer must pay strict
attention to his work
But authors must have their recreation.
Chambers is a painter aud a sculptor
as we'll. Whenever he gets tired of New
York. where he does his writing in a studio
building. he migrates to his summer
place In the Adirondacks. lie likes to
hunt.
Mr.. MacGrath. who owns comfortable
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he has to put them out under his own
name and that Of Anthony Partridge.
This because they're nearly always best
sellers, and two Oppenheim books to-
gether would hurt the sale Of each other.
His novels "The 1llustrious Prince" and
"The Moving Finger" sold to the extent
OF nearly $4,000 copies. and for the serial
rights Of his novels Oppenheim receives
anywhere from to 10 cents a word.
George Barr McCutcheon is another
writer Of stories of adventure. His
"Graustark" sold about half a million
copies and made him over 100000. Three
novels he has will bring from $4,000 to
81, 900 apiece for the serial rights alone.
Harold McGrath makes about S25, 600 on
the one novel he writes annually. Last
year he got good price for the serial
rights Of "The Carpet From Bagdad."
Locke and Bennett are getting high
prices for their novels in this country. II
ia reported that Bennett has received
already large sum for novel that he ID
not to write until 1914. Locke has re.
ceived from $40. 900 to si2.Oo apiece for q
number Of novels to be run in serial form
Cora Harris is said to have received
S20. 900 recently for two stories that she
didn't even know the plots Of. Mrs
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THE PLOT THICKENS.

home in the city OF Syracuse. likes u
travel. Not long ago he made . tour
of the world and nearly every year he
goes abroad. One OF Mac(;raths favorite
amusements is boxing. Not that he puts
on the gloves. but he likes to sit at the
ringside when bouts are held in Syracuse.
Oppenheim's principal recreation. as
he puts it. is to make a trip to this country.
Even then there is not much recreation
in it. for he's apt to write part of novel
on the way over. McCutcheon delights
in rare books. oil paintings and automo-
biles. A great part of his money is in
vested in collections of the two former
Rex Beach likes city and frontier life
about equally well. Although most OF
his stories are written about the North
west. he has an apartment in New
York and enters into metropolitan life
with zest. Not long ago he bought an
apartment house in New York that cost
$i5O.OO. Farnol's favorite recreation is
cycling and he knows every inch Of the
highways in Kent Bennett and Locke
would rather motor than do anything else
and delight in making week end trips
to little out of the way places in Englan
and on the Continent.
Sir Gilbert Parker is an enthusiastic
golfer and Robert Hichens would rather
look at the scenery about Tao-mina,
Sicily. than anything else.
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George Randolph Chester Put in the
Way of Making $4,000 a Year by
Losing Job as Reporter-Earnings of
Writers of Best Sellers, Their Meth.
ods Of Work and Their Recreations

looking over an account Of his earnings
from January 1. The total was S26. 1000.
For the young man was George Randolph
Chester. creator Of Get Rich Quick Wal
lingford" and the S25 600 was the amount
he had received from the magazines.
from his stories printed in hook form,
and from royalties from the play Of the
same name. The hest thing that ever
happened to him was his discharge from
the Detroit newspaper.
Broadly the novels Of to-day can be
divided into four classes: Adventure,
photographs Of life, the out and out love
story and the newer type OF so-called Sex
story. For example. T.. Phillips Open
helm. Harold Mc0rath. Rex Beach and
Sir Gilbert Parker are In the adventure
class; the Englishman Arnold Bennett
and William j. Locke and Cora Harris,
Robert Kitchens. Edith Wharton, Mar
garet Deland and Edna Ferber photo
graph life Jeffery Farnol and Mary Will
kins Freeman do the feminine love story
and Robert ". Chambers may be said to
have created the sex novel Of the present
day.
In the incident Of Chester q hint was
given OF what the successful writer can
earn nowadays. Mr. Chambers annual
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income from his pen is estimated at $50, ,0Oo.
1t accrues in many ways. Take his last
success, THE Common Law" His pub
fishers paid him a lump price Of SIS, 900.
to say nothing OF royalties. One maya
zine ran a series of Chambers short stories
last spring and summer, paying sio,oo0
for six of them. Among his other books
that have sold we'll are The Younger Set
and -The Fighting Chance" In the seven-
teen years he has been writing thirty
five volumes Of fiction, four juvenile
books. book OF verse. drama and many
magazine articles have been turned out
by him.
Oppenheim writes 30 many books that
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of his carefully nurtured bohemia into
Paris again.
Across the street is the fading sign Of
the Bal Butler. wherc good Americans 60
before they die. and up the "Boul Niche"
are the CATS de Ia Pantheon and the Cafe
d 'Harcourt. famous American resorts.
but essentially French. There you are
foreigner again. while in the American
section English is the last tongue TO use
IL you would have secrets. There even
the laundries hang out signs in English.
The tourists are not interested in the
genuine life of the American student in
Paris. They want the real" Latin quar-
ter. which being interpreted OF course
means the most unreal. And having
done an art school or two and popped into
few courtyards in passing. they are
ready for it. They can zoe 1t all in one
evening. They always begin at Hen
riette's.
There is nothing in Paris more typi-
cal OF the American student life AZ il Is
on parade than Henriette's. Even aside
from the fact that you can dine with
prodigal extravaganza at Henriettes
for half dollar. this restaurant Ia worthy
of fame. There are few places In the
world where the food Ia better cooked
than it is at Henriettc's, and except for
the fact that no one was e,er known to
get a wing in ch cken order. the quality
10 unsurpassed.
And tho sauces. for which the place is
famous! Well it is a generally accepted
tradition about the quarter that the
sauces ut Henriette's are copied by the
chef at the Cate de Paris. As no one who
dimes regularly ut Henrictte's goes to
! the Cafe do Paris the possibility that this
| is an exaGgeration must bc entertained
Suffice it to say that the two busy wait
rcsses are very careful TO count up and
, charge you for every piece of bread you
eat, because otherwise you would he sure
i to DE extravagant with this medium for
mopping up those famous sauces.
Henrictte's is situated on ths Rue
Leopold Robert. highway about as
broad IN a self-respeotinS city sidewalk,
and half Nh long IA "A short city block
But even knowing that and also that ex-
cept for u famous candy shop and n
| ~ u,icnis pension Or two there Ii nothing
else worthy of interest on the Ruc Leo
pold Robert, do not seek ienrictte's too
carelessly. for you will miss it Its front
ago OF U feet is not much. even for Paris,
and Henrtstts's y - conservative - .
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tate it TO stenographer; then have
the stuff read over to me and correct it
and then go through it a third time.
do any, hing from two to three or four
thousand words day. average about
three thousand words.
THE story like to write and my recipe
for a best seller is incident, incident,
incident. Surprise. surprise. surprise! Peo-
pie to-day wan; inciden: and surprise.
II you can clo:hc those things in beautiful
words you make what il called the higher
appeal; if you Can't you don't but you
make some sort of an appeal anyhow,
and that's what counts"
McCutcheon has often said that he
writes to entertain himself In other
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shine. as he puts it. Also he writes when
he feels like it, Some days he'll do a
hundred words; other days he'll do 1000.
He likes to put his characters into absurd
situations and eXtricate them.
Locke and Bennett also write when
they feel like it. Oppenheim once said.
-Lockes technique of the novel is prac-
tically perfect" As they work when
they are in the mood for it their writing
can hardly be called n task Like most
nove!ists they begin their work after
breakfast. and rarely write at night.
Edna Ferber. who used to work on q
Milwaukee newspaper. can sit down and
write story at any time of day and
under trying conditions-a result of her
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Humphry Ward made $4,000 on -Sir
George Tressady' and SIS. 900 on Lady
Roses Daughter" Mary wilkins Free
man gets ten cents a word for the serial
rights alone of her novels Edna ferber' S
Dawn o. Hara" cleaned up small for.
tune for her.
So much for the earnings OF authors
Now for their methods Of work
I'm just like any business man. Robert
". Chambers remarked recently. 1T is
my regular work. and like to write as
much al man who is interested in Wall
Street likes to play the market. have
my regular hours for work. generally from
so'clock in the morning to O'Clock in the
afternoon.
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Baedeher mentions it not. nor does
Grant Allen. between whose green covers
the tourist seeks vainly to conceal the
possession Of guide book; but the Paris
Latin quarter is on the list Of about every
visitor. Paris il full OF tourists now. and
the show place, OF the Latin quarter are
correspondingly busy.
These tourists are familiar with the
Latin quarter Of legend and story. They
have read Of the .Boul Miche.- have
Quivered with delight over the descrip-
tions OF life in the cafes Of the quarter
have pictured a model in their mind as
she chats with young artist in a cafe
corner. have listened wide cared to un-
published reports Of experiences at the
Csf6 de la Pantheon and the Bal Butler
and 50 are keen to visit the quarter.
They hunt up the address of Cousin
.Jarness best friends nephew. to whom
they have letter VI introduction, swoop
down upon him and demand to see it all
You really cannot blame Cousin Jalnes's
hest friends nephew for showing them
the American Latin quarter instead Of
the French II isn't so very bad and it
usually satisfies them. In fact it usually
leaves them with a desire to return and
see more, but the aforementioned nephew
of the old college chum Of Cousin James
ma, told the concierge. and the concierge
,.or- her duty and bars the way with
her portly person il the tourists refuse
10 believe her announcement that their
student friend is out.
On that one thrilling personally con-
Quoted trip through the Latin quarter.
which is described with bated breath
=" IN a thousand or two American circles
~ hy returned travellers every autumn.
q i, is probably safe to wager at least half
2 .he visitors dined at Henriettc's and
.pent the evening ut I.avenue's. They
;, .sre the condensed. sublimated essence
" Of the American Latin quarter
re The American Latin quarter. although
mo, mapped ont by the Paris authorities.
. nor indeed by the Americans themselves
bais far more clearly defined than. for In
- stance. the rcni Latin quarter. II strag-
NJ gles along "A stor"d mile Of the Boulevard
-, ,MuutIarnassc, of which all the world
Anows The heart Of 1t ia the broad
o- ~, ransa Of pavement where the Boulevard
%, Mont parnasse and the Boulevard Raspai
Hers ia tho CATO du Dome. here within
n f.w minutes walk are half do.sn ar'
selboiA ~ studios Of hmdrsd 'snoo
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no the city editor of q Detroit
newspaper there came one
morning not so very long ago

TO the city editor of q Detroit
newspaper there came one
morning not so very long ago
young man. He wanted a
job as reporter. The city editor hap
pened TO be short Of inen at that time and
engaged him Immediately with no morn
Of a Recommendation than the whimsical
looking mouth and the twinkling eyes
Of tho applicant. The city editor. you
zoe. prided himself upon being a reader
of men. In his new reporter he thought
he saw man who could write amusing
stories. So tho young man hogan his
work Of doing humorous little stories that
Detroit got In the habit Of looking for.
One day when all the regular reporters
were out on assignments the city editor
received word that suicide Of an unusual
character had been committed that morn
ing on the outskirts Of the city. Look
ing around the Office for a man to send
out on the story ne saw no one but the
new reporter. In the emergency he
called him over to the desk and told him
10 hurry out and come back with oil
tho facts.
Two hours later the young man returned
and in half an hour lie handed the city
editor the account Of the suicide. 1t
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CHIEF BUSINESS AT LAvENNES ELSE

arrived students. Year after year hun
dreds get their first glimpse OF the lite
OF this part Of Paris at their evering
meal at Henriettc's after tho boat train
has dumped them at the Care ~, Iazare
and they have found their way to- the
rooms in he Rue dc Ia Grande ChaumiArc.
Yet ther" il probably n" more con
ventionnl spot in Paris than this raiuo
Henriet,e's, BohSmin it undoubtedly IL,
hut never il one prnuner than here m
the very heart of II. You muai speak
very low and look ON those about you
with strange. unsssiuy eyes. II Il for
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was a remarkable story. Through it
ran thread Of pathos. Of understanding; g;
it gave a vivid pict ure OF the room. the
house. its surroundings. the people who
gathered in the street; in short. it was a
good piece Of color writing But the
name Of the suicide. the names OF rer-
-ons connected with the affair and the
address OF the house were not mentioned.
The new reporter had not deemed it worth
while to get them. He had written a
magazine fiction story instead Of a news
paper story. Soon afterward he was dis
charged and received his last pay envelope
~ ainost $50 a week.
Last year this same young man was
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The service at Henrictte's ia not rapid.
but there is more hustle about It than
in any quick lunc New York ever saw.
The way to tho real Henriette's is
through the hall and another room. The
tables are placed 30 closely together that
afty people cap sit down in room not
twenty feet square and leave space for
Q stove ana buffet besides. Hero,
under the skyiight where the leaves from
invisible trees fall in the autumn. meet
the Americans Of tho Latin quarter. The
legend Of the Queen of Hearts and those
ever ssv0ry tayts y smblaxonsd on Q
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no less clearly defined There may be
Americans who live beyond the western
most edge. where you sit on the terrace Of
Lavenue's Cafe. restaurant and hotel, but
they are philistines superior Tor Inferior
to the denizens of the quarter. The
eastern limit is perhaps three quarters Of
a mile back. past the circle about tho
Cafe du Dome again. There. on the ter
race Of another famous cafe, looking out
over another nest of branching streets
the American student sits and gazcs out
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pink and gray fresco winding around the
wall.
This painting. with its life size figures
and its legends in English, was done
years ago by two American girls. and
though there are people who knew Hen
riette's before the fresco appeared they
are few, for the quarter changes almost
completely every five years. Over here
one is an old resident in a year, and a
joy Of the autumn days in Paris il to
eat at Henriettes and watch the newly
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foreign painters. OF singing teachers and
dancing masters. Here is the grocery
store Of Monsieur Hazard. who sells cold
meats and cooked vegetables that may be
warmed on alcohol stoves in rooms. Here
are all sorts of inconvenient shops and
restaurants that on the ground seem in
excusable, but to tho mind Of the returned
student, in his American homo. are
clothed with the romance of the half for
gotten.
This is the heart Of It. but the limits are
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fashionable hotel about hanging out q
sign.
There are four tables in the front room
OF Henriette's and back OF them Is q
kitchen about as big as the kind you get
with $50 fat. yet out Of its spick and
span compactness come all the good
things you have heard about. You might
stop at the door for moment as you 60
past. except for the imminent danger
that one Of those two flying Mattresses
will bump into you and bowl you over
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-11
MAYOR GAYNOR ON
WITNESS STAND
TWO HOURS VERBAL TILT WITH
ALDERMEN
Declared He Had Done Away With
Graft Amounting to Three Million
Dollars in Connection With En-
foroement of Liquor Laws.
4 Associated Press.

Associated Press.
New York, Sept. 10.-For more
than two hours this afternoon Mayor
Gaynor sat in the wi ness chair and
parried, with picture que retort and
evasion. the attempts of counsel for
the aldermanic committee to learn
his views on he police situation
brought to climax by the murder of
gambler Herman Rosenthal.
Three times he threatened to leave
the stand because he considered the
questions irreyelent. Twice he de-
nounced the hearing as a scandal
mongering excursion, and often dur
ing the testimony he repeated hat
attempts to "scandalize" him would
be in vain for, he aid, he had lived
in New York too long, and had be-
gun his efforts to purify the govern
ment long before Emory r. Buckner
examination would he admit that
the police department was inefficient
BY the way of counter investiga-
tion Of the commi tee, Gaynor today
set on foot an investigation Of re-
ports that the committee had ac-
cepted high instead of a low bid on
IT'S stenographic work.
Ninel out Of every ten que-t tions
asked by Buckner remained un-
answered.
The mayor said that among other
things he had done since he had
been in Office was to do away with
graft in connection with the enforce
ment of the liquor laws. This graft,
he said, amounted to three million
dollars annually.
Another thing was to insist on the
integrity Of the civil service SO that
Murphy nor any one else can in
fluence the appointments.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-11
BRIGHT PROSPECTS
FOR SANTA MARIA
Advent of Interurban Causes New
Business Enterprises to Spring Up.
Hotel, Church and Bank Building.

That the pro poets for Santa Maria
since the advent Of the interurban
railroad are particularly bright, is
attested to by Judge E. C. Forto. who
has just returned from a weeks visit
In and about the thriving little place.
large hotel of frame construc-
tion containing twenty rooms is
rapidly nearing completion and will
give the city. when finished, ample
and attractive hotel accommodation
1t is understood Mercedes parties
will operate the new hostelry.
Another building just completed
is the large Protestant church. also
Of frame construction, to be used as
a place of worship for the various
denominations of the Protestant
faith. The town already possess a
Catholic church.
bank building is also to be built
at once, to house a banking institu-
tions backed by St Louis capitalists.
soon to be established, giving Santa
Maria its first depository.
A real estate office and merchan-
disc store also have lately been added
to the business district
Lots for both residences and bust
ness blocks are finding a ready sale,
according 70 Judge Forto, and busi-
ness In all lines is considered brisk
from this time Of year
IT is said that r. II Kern, sr., who,
together with his son, have heavy
interests in and about Santa Maria,
will shortly bring homeseekers there
and place for sale much of their
lands. Mr.. Kern, sr., plans in the
near future to come from st. Louis
and make the city his home in the
Valley.
Judge Forto reports that the
Santa Maria Irrigation Co., which,
by the way, was the second company
of the kind to be formed in the Val
ley for irrigation purposes, and
whose president is Judge FortO, is in
splendid financial condition. He
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-09-11
.FEDERALS TO CROSS
AMERICAN TERRITORY
WILL MOVE FROM Ell PAS0 TO
N0GALES, ARIZ.
Their Arms and Ammunition Viii be
Transported in Sealed Express
Cars, and They Will Be Escorted
By United States Troops.
Associated Press.

Associated Press.
Washington, d. c., Sept 10.-Per-
mission given to twelve hundred
Mexican troops to move through
United States territory to attack the
rebels in the state of Sonora. and
the reported repulse and retreat
rom the border of General Inez Sal
azar. the rebel leader. combined to-
day TO bring satisfaction to govern
nent officials here.
Officials are deeply gratified that
addional Mexican forces are to be
distributed along the border with the
considerable force of federals al
ready garrisoning stragetic town I'LL
Sonora.
Ii is expected that the twelve hun
lred men in question will be sufIic-
'ent to force the rebels back from
he international line.
The Mexican troops will be en-
trained at FL Paso and be transported
10 Nogales, Arizona.
Their arms and ammunition viii
be sealed in express cars, so that
they go through American territory
1narmed A detachment of United
States troops will accompany them.
There is much speculation on the
concentration of the rebel bands in