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they propose to write about? They
will early have used up their original
stock of rhyming addresses to the moon
and such like. Their stories are too
much in a minor key or strained too
high on falsetto notes to get admiring
audience. AS yet they have gathered
little wool by moonlight, and have moth
ing to spin into fiction but their own
threads of fragile and fiuttering emo
ton, with which Arachne herself could
hardly contrive a pleasing web. Stili
less likely are they to have picked up
enough useful knowledge to I'LL their
shop window. The best OF 1t is usually
some vague idea OF copying one or other
popular author of the moment. In nine
cases out OF ten our young author has
as yet no promising pigs or his own
to drive to market, while he IL not
sure of the way to his market
and quite unaware what bad
market this Is In which demand,
except for rare line of wares,
will be seldom brisker than supply.
1 recall one particularly confident bard
who sent me from South Africa small
volume of poems very badly printed at
Kimberley. along with some opinions
of the local press. the most emphatic
describing his work as IA mixture of
bosh and blasphemy": this revelation
of genius he desired me to have at once
reprinted in London and to send him the
proceeds without delay. That. OF course.
made a mere miniature OF Sir Walter
Scott's experience, when from America
he had 10 pay rs postage on each
of two bulky parcels. sent by sue
cessive posts for more safety. the con-
| tents being duplicate copies OF play
entitled "The Cherokee Lovers" which
the youthful author desired him to
| titivate for sale TO a British publisher
and to arrange for its production on
the London stage.
The trustful youngsters who invited
| me to put them in tho way Of at once
making a living by their bent for writ
| ing usually assumed that I have reaped
| a rich harvest on the fields where they
would CLEAN in turn. Let me unde-
ceive them. I thank the goodness and
the grace that made me not wholly de-
pendent on my pen, yet I have piled It
AS industriously as any hack writer In
Grub street. After a good many years
OF diigent work. during which l had
kept account of my gainc, l had the
curiosity to sum them up, with the re-
suit that, taking one year with another,
| seemed 20 have made an income OF
| about 100 guineas per annum. and this
| without setting down per contra many
| such incidental expenses as books, sta
| tionery, postage. office room and general
| wear and tear Of ones necessary equip
metfts, not TO speak OF expensive jour
neys that supplied part of my raw ma
terial, nor the prime cost of my educa-
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In The Pen and the Book" he calcu-
lates that there were some thirteen
hundred English writing novelists at
work, OF whom some dozen at the most
gained large incomes. and sixty or sew
enty might reach four figures in their
returns, while rather moro than twice
as many made f40O year and upward.
two hundred had to content themselves
with fl00 year or so, and the rest
with little or nothing
Since then Arnold Bennett has
furnished more cheerful estimate.
lie states that over a hundred novellsts
get $500 for every novel they write:
that Il certain number count their gains
in thousands Of pounds. and that a
handful run into five figures. one pop
ular story teller he mentions as being
recently paid at the rate of three shll-
lings a word, or thirty shillings a line.
an advance upon the slxpence a word
Louis Stevenson could command at the
end OF his career. one shrinks from
mentioning the names OF those million
aires, as some of them are merely more
or less faclle writer's who have had the
luck or the cleverness to hit a vein
OF popular taste not likely to be ex-
III anu
some cases soon worked out.
What are We to say OF solid litera-
ture. such as in the opinion OF some
should monopolize this title? The gem
eral reader might DO surprised to learn
how many useful and approved works
have to come out at the authors ex-
pense. seldom repaid him. His best
chance is to be employed by publisher
who keeps an enterprlsing eye open for
what pattern OF gossiping history. in
discreet biography or smart writing on
things in general will be in brief de-
mand at the circulating Libraries. Many
book which would not stand upright
by itself will do SO as part of a series,
which 1t Is the publishers craft to plan.
As "A hint OF how cheap literary labor is
for such undertakings I may mention
what a friend OF mine imparts to me.
a man of university distinction and long
literary practice: he wrote for a we'll
known series two volumes requiring
historical research, each Of them con-
tanning nearly $4,000 words. and for
each he was paid f25, which comes to
exactly the proberbial penny "A line. less
than some music hall lions get nightly
for tickling the ears of the vulgar with
single ditty. Another thriving series
of volumes. twice as large. costs GAO.
am creditably Informed, for the literary
labor Of each. I have beside me a vol
ume OF some 500 double columned small
print pages, stuffed fun of duh but USE
full information, the collection of II look
ing like "A good work, for which a slave
OF the pen was paid cas-. one could
ca silly multiply such revelations but II
Is enough to say what no ono behind
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dozen hours at stretch l know a
lady, by the way, who undertook 10
translate all BalZac-'the new edition.
nifty volumes long"-in three years. and
only by little fell short OF accomplish
ing this gigantic task.
Authorship and journalism, il is said,
tend to become fused in our time; but
for want of up to dateness the present
writer must shrink from dwelling on
this topic. His outlook on the literary
world, 1t may be perceived, inclines to
retrospective views, whereas the live"
journalists watchword il "actuality"
Forty years ago l facetiously remarked
to Oliver Wendell Holmes. posted up,
as you say" to which that genial and
cultured host replied with a certain
stiffness, Excuse me, not as ] say"
Since then our periodical press has been
quickly posting itself In phrases and
methods that come mainly from New
York and Chicago rather than from
Boston. Even the last decade, one is
creditably informed. has wrought such
changes In the street OF newspaper for
tunes and mlsfortunes that the most
experienced editor of Delane's or Edwin
Arnold's time might find himself Rip
van Wrinkle among its new men and
machinery. all working at highest pres
sure with a din which might scare those
young lions of the Daily Telegraph that
roared so imposingly for the last gem
Grafton. I NEEDLE not with matters that
are too fast for me. except in so far as
denying to the facile reporter with his
scoops" and his stories" the dignity
OF right authorship. craft he has gone
far TO demOraltZe by the rattleS and
corals with which he exerts himself to
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EANY people are lured by some
N II MYSTERIOUS fascination to try
v their hands at authorship who
have no talent whatever for
writing. Tho result is that the paths
NJ literature are thickly strewn with
pitiahle failures. OF those who are
htted for the work only few meet
with financial success, while many
aho are reckoned as stars in the 1T
erary armament earn but scanty in
come from their publications.
That we'll known Englishman A. X.
Hope MoncrieH has just completed his
half century as an author, and 20 COM
memurate the event has issued vol
ume through tho Macmillan Company
called "A Book About Authors" In II
he reveals some secrets about the
trade Of writing and tho income OF
some well known writer's.
Al first. he says. our hungry author
Inns Is content with a taste OF praise;
he ~ even observed to go long on a
windy diet NJ his own satisfaction, but
sooner or later he wakes up with APP
petite for peck of more solid prov
ender and desires what the Americans
call Compensation" for the labor he
delights in. And there's the rub! He
feels that his indentures to literature
should DO sealed with gold, not always
forthcoming. Sweet Is the watchdogS
honest bark. and great many other
things are mentioned by poets as most
grateful under certain circumstances:
vet perhaps IL they told the whole truth
nothing in their experience has come
moro welcome-unless the proof sheee
than tho rirst check received for their
verses. 7 knew a highly respectable
solicitor who ell his life wore at his
watch chain a sovereign he had earned
N youth as price OF an article, fondly
bearing II for a charm by which from
tlns TO time he could forget the dusty
paths OF his prosperous career. hgam,
knew clergyman commissioned by a
certain princess to write n short letter
IN the London papers stating the part
e1e had played In three coronations.
tor this communication ono paper sent
MIN an honorarium OF eighteen pence.
ana It was refreshing to witness the
pride and Joy with which my old friend
exhibited the first money his pen had
ever fairly earned In three score and
Ten years. SO far has opinion veered
slnce the day when a nobleman or gem
uemSn dabbling In literature aban-
coned his share OF the profit to the pub
usher. as busy citizen may bestow on
me usher the groat earned by serving
IN Sheriffs jury. n now appears, in
deed, as II authorship tends to become
privilege OF the aristocracy. the
p'ntocrav and other men of means. who
ICED ieave no more profitable calling
'or this idle trade"
The Grst question I would put deli
eAtely to untried writer's In, What do
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The picture was taken

prosperous Journalist.
Most authors, when one comes to
think If it. are blacklegs. men of az
fairs scribbling in their evening hours.
journalists who begin their day with a
turn at fiction. retired officers, clergy
men. ladies of fashion. millionaires, even
kings and queens. all sorts and condi-
tons of men contribute to bring down
literary wages by cheapening their
work to such point that they will
even pay for overstocklng a poor mar
ket. Then remember how all approved
authors become ghostly blacklegs,
haunting the glimpses of the moon in
cheaply elegant editions, which are
bought in huge numbers at the present
day: one is not always so sure of them
being read.
The author who has still to keep body
and soul together hungrily desires to
be bought. but his customers are still
less liberal with bread than with stony
praise. The last thing your warm"
citizen cares TO buy is a book. unless
when ii comes down to its weight in
coppers. He judges 1t mean not to pay
for bottle of wine, for a stall at the
theatre. for a cab, for a bouquet. when
he will take any pains to borrow a book
AlihH buy ~. III INC Average
British household the sum spent on
literature through the year would
hardly make a physicians fee 10 cure
the sequele of a banquet the cost OF
which might MI bookshelf Thus
flourish the libraries. TO which book
sellers have To give check by move Of
artificial prices that puts new books be-
yond the reach OF most pockets. There
is something to be said for the system
OF joint stock Libraries. whence the sub
scriber can have a wide choice OF books
without the need of numbering his
rooms with kind OF furniture likely
to collect only too much dust. But
when rate paying maker OF books Ia
forced to support public libraries at
which the neighbors may come by his
wares without cost 1t seems adding
insult 10 injury that he should be in
vited to take the wind out OF his own
sails by a contribution OF gratis copies.
People who make such applications
do not perhaps understand how an au-
thor may have to pay for his own
books. with only little more discount.
than is given to the ordinary customer;
or II he have books TO give away why
IL IL not In the case Of successful
performance that deadheads are well
come. The managers OF one library
wrote me that having spent most Of
their money on the building they ex-
pected ME 10 aid in supplying II with
books handed this statement 10 .
man OF the world whose exposition
was that people who dealt in bricks and
mortar had to be paid for them. but
Ink and paper came into a different
class OF materials
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the scenes will contradict, that most
authors are glad to get anything for
their work. and that most books bring
their author next to no profit. unless in
the experience of loss.
one of my eX-clients for advice comes
back to accuse me. after years spent
on the paths he has made out for him
self. His report Is that, what with one
thing and another. 10y pushing with
publishers. by waiting on editors. by
keeping an eye open for every chance,
by sending in paragraph here and
column there. by despisng no job as
too petty. by taking no rejection as
final. he has after all made nearly as
large an income. with more toll. trouble
and anxiety, than he might have ex-
pected in the occupation which I ad-
vised him not lightly to abandon.
one thing the young author must be
warned 10 expect. that pecuniary sue
cess is not likely to como to him with
out industry. He looks forward 10
laundering about sunny banks and
braes where he can at ease pick flowers
of sentiment and fancy; but in real life
the poet should learn to scorn delights
and live laborious days OF study. ex-
pertinent and strictly meditating what
may be a thankless muse. Anyhow.
there is little money to be made of toy
ing with a facile muse. What the light
minded aspirant admires Is the irregu-
larity of work which often grants long
holidays alternated with labor pushed
on as in hot spells OF haymaking and
harvesting. Many authors do their
work much by fits and starts. but the
ruck OF them prosper only on condition
OF attending punctually to business.
A book, however long It may have
been in incubation. has sometimes to be
Matched in haste. by dint Of assiduous
sitting. The history OF literature could
be ransacked for tours de force per-
formed by members OF this idle gang.
Beckford's statement was that he wrote
"Vathek" in French with single
squirt kept up through three days and
two nights. but indeed from his own
correspondence 1t has been shown that
he must have been thinking of but one
episode, and that tho whole work went
through much labor linn. johnson.
less likely to delude himself. declared
that he wrote "Rasselas' In the evenings
of single week, spurred out of his
habltual procrastination by need of
money for his mothers funeral. Sir
Walter Scott finished Guy Mannering"
in six weeks. and we know how swiftly
In his broken old age he piled the pen
for his creditors. Dumas. making all
allowance for "ghostly" assistance.
must have been most diligent scribe
before typewriting days. Balzac. when
in full blast. would go to bed at and
get UP at midnight, to work more than
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Copyright, 1914. by tho Boston Journal.

/ EANY people are lured by some
Y II MYSTERIOUS fascination to try
v their hands at authorship who
hANn M inlnnf MhntnNer for
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-10-14
FARMERS OF TEXAS
WELL CARED FOR
State Fair Offers Rich Premi.
ums in Agricultural Glasses.
A MAMMOTH DISPLAY.
Awards in Individual Farm Exhibit
Glass Increased to s30O-Uncle
Sam Viii Judge Cotton.

Dallas. s.-Farmers of Texas are well
cared for this year by the man
agement of the 1914 State Fair
Of Texas, which begins Saturday,
October H.. Thousands Of dol
lars have been set aside for awards
for exhibits OF farms orchard and gar
den products.
The mammoth agricultural building
has been equipped with new and mod
ern exhibit booths for the farm and
mill. cotton, corn and other divisions.
AS usual cotton comes in for rich
share OF the prizes and VIII be as
sembled and Judged under the super
vision of the United States Department
OF Agriculture. Cash awards around
$500 and diplomas cover the prize Of
ferings for exhibits OF short and long
staple cotton.
In the corn division, open to Texas
only, prizes aggregating $500 are Of
fered for all variaties of Dent corn,
Laguna or June corn. prolific corn and
eourd seed corn.
The big feature and one in which
much interest is manifested is the In
dividual farm exhibit class. The man
agement regards this of such import
ance that the prize offerings have been
increased to $500. Every farmer In
Texas has a chance at this rich purse
and by assembling an exhibit of corn,
cotton, small grain and other products
grown on his farm this year. his chance
of winning rich share of this purse
is as good as the next one.
The Texas Land and Mortgage Com
pany offers rich special premiums In
the Agricultural Department this year
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-10-14
WHAT WOULD YOU po2

There are many times when one man
questions anothers actions and mo-
tiyes. Men act differently under idf-
ferent circumstances. The question is,
what would you do right now if you
had a severe cold? Could you do bet
ter than to take Chamberlain Cough
Remedy? 1t is highly recommended
by people who have used it for years
and know its value. Mrs. o. e. Sar-
gent, Peru, Ind, says, Chamberlain s
Cough Remedy is worth its weight in
gold and take pleasure in recon-
mending it." For sale by all dealers.
ADV. d&w
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-10-14
Your Fan Cold Needs Attention,

No use to fuss and try to wear II
out 1t will wear you out instead
Take Dir, Kings New Discovery, relief
follows quickly 1t checks your cold
and soothes your cough away Pleas
ant, antiseptic and healing Children
like it. Get SOC bottle of DR.. Kings
New Discovery and keep it in the
house. "Our family Cough and Cold
Doctor" writes Lewis Chamberlain
Manchester. Ohio. Money back II not
satisfied. but it nearly always helps
ADV. d&w
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-10-14
HOPELESS LUNG TROUBLE CURED

Many recoyeries from lung troubles
are due to DR.. Bells Pine-Tar- Honey
1t strengthens the lungs, checks the
cough and gives relief at once. Mr..
w. s. wilkins, Gates, N. c., writes: Il
used DR.. Bells Pine-Tar-Honey in a
case given up as hopeless and it ef-
fected a complete cure" Get bottle
of DR.. Bells Pine-Tar-Honey If your
cough is dry and hacking let it trickle
down the throat, you will surely get
relief. Only 25c at your druggist
Adv. d&w
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-10-14

ANGoRA GOAT DISPLAY.
Record Breaking Showing Promised
For Coming State Fair.

Dallas.-Texas furnishes half the mo-
hair produced annually in the United
States, or more than 100000 pounds.
The grade is just as fine in texture as
the imported article. and there is about
100000 pounds imported into the Unit
ed States each year.
The management of the 1914 State
Fair of Texas is going to impress upon
visitors the fact that Texas can pro-.
duce twice as much mohair If more at.
tention is given to the Angora goat in.
dustry.
Hence the rich prizes offered not
only by the Fair management but by
the American Angora Goat Breeders
Association and the American Mich
Goat Record Association
The Angora exhibit last year was
conceded to be the best since the St
Louis Worlds Fair aid the exhibit
this year promises to eclipse even that
of 1919
Breeders declare that while the An
CORA prefers rough pasture and is par
tcularly happy when clearing thick
brush land. yet after a few years on
the very toughest land the owner will
be able to double and often quadruple
the number of head of Sheep cattle
or horses on the same land and not
in the least interfere with the Angora.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-10-14
BABY SHOW AT FAIR.
Five Hundred Youngsters VIII Par
ticipate in Scientific Test.

Dallas-F'ive hundred babies all in a
row. going through scientific inspection
and test that is bound to make some
of them mad, is unique exhibit for the
coming State Fair of Texas, which be-
gins Saturday, october IL and con-
tinues sixteen days.
1t Is held for the good of the babies
of the state, our most precious asset,
and great physicians in attendance will
tell the mothers what is best for their
little ones in the way of proper feed.
ing, clothing exercise and hygiene.
october 2S is Better Babies Rally
DAY and all babies should be there
The contest is limited to 500 and it will
be held in special quarters on the
ground floor Of the Coliseum
Miss Rich of the Home Welfare Di-
vision Of the University of Texas is in
charge of the contest, which is held
under the auspices of the university,
The State Fair management con-
tributes $3.50 In prizes.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-10-14

If your child starts in its sleep,
grinds its teeth while sleeping, picks
at the nose, had bad breath, tickle
appetite, pale complexion, and dark
rings under the eyes; it has worms;
and as along as they remain in the in
testines, that child will be sickly.
Whites Cream Vermifuge clears out
the worms, strengthens the stomach
and bowels and puts the little one on
the road to health and cheefulness.
Price 25c per bottle. Sold by Owl
Drug Store.-Adv. d&w
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-10-14

All you who have torpid liver, weak
disgestion or eonstipated bowels, look
out for chills. The season is here and
the air is full of the disease germs
The best thing TO do is to get your
liver in good condition and purify the
stomach and bowels. Herbine is the
right remedy, it answers the purpose
completely. Price SOC Sold by Owl
Drug Store.--Adv. d&w
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-10-14
BUSY BEE AT FAIR.
Exhibit of Great Educational Import
ance is Now Being Assembled.

Dallas-Down there in Southwest Tex
as. where the flowers are ever blooming.
beekeepers are getting up an exhibit
OF bees and bee products that will be
one of the most instructive features Of
the 1914 State Fair of Texas, which
begins Saturday. October II. All the
various varieties known in Texas viii
be shown to State Fair visitors in glass
observatory hives. where their habits
can be studied with the greatest OF
ease, and, while one is doing this, the
expert In charge is adding other in
formation that will convince the hearer
that Texas is the home of the bee in
dustry.
No department of the Fair is of more
interest than this. The various uses
that can be made OF honey will be ex,
ceedingly instructive to the housewife.
There win be a miscellaneous display.
bees in every conceivable shape, curif
hives and beekeepers' supplies
The motto of this exhibit will bs
tihat every farmer should have bee
hive"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-10-14

Those expecting to take their chill
dren out for spring work must start
them in soon as, the laws Of Oklahoma
require each pupil between six and
sixteen years of age to attend school
six months out of the year. Please
stop to consider this, as 1t is the duty
Of certain officials to see that the
demands of the law are carried out
Il is duty they owe to the boys and
girls of the state and nation, for the
sake Of the coming citizenship, that
they may make the best of their life.
Surely, no man will neglect SO sacred
duty.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-10-14
The Dukes Question.

The delicate operation Of separating
the French Siamese twins. which has
just been successfully performed. re.
calls Lord Houghton's story of duke
of st. Adams who went to inspect the
original Siamese twins. The tale is
retold in the London Express. The
duke looked at the two boys, and
then turned to their Snowman Are
they brothers?" he asked. The show.
mans reply has not been preserved