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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-09
ENTERTAINs S. S. CLASS

Mt. Wolf, Pa, Jan. 9.-Closs No.
Is, of st. Johns Lutheran Sunday
school, Mrs. George A. Livingston,
teacher, was entertained at the Luth-
eran parsonage on Monday even
Ing. The evening was delightfully."-
spent. The hostess served refresh
ments.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-09
FRANKLIN RECORDER BUSY

Chambersburg, Pa, Jan. 9.-Dur-
ing 1918. 20,065 papers were filed
in the Office of the Register and Re-
corder of Franklin county. This was
an increase of 2S2 over 1917. Let
ters We're also granted in 500 estates,
an increase of twenty-eight over
1917.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-09
HOLDS SOCIAL

New Cumberland, Pa, Jan. o.
The Christian Endeavor Society of
Trinity United Brethren Church
held a social at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. John Witmoyer, in Third
street, Tuesday evening.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-09
FAvoRs HIGHER SALARIES

OIhIHDcFsDuFE, IA, Jan. y.-The
.Chambersburg Civic Club, meeting in
session, voted to make
written plea to the State Legislature
to increase the salaries of school
teachers in the state.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-09
NO GRAVE READY FOR BODY

Biain, Pa, Jan. 9.-The body OF
william Wesley Sheibley. Is years
old. who died at his home in Phila-
delphia. was brought here on Tues
day evening for burial in the Blain
Union cemetery. AS no arrangements
had been made, preparations are be-
tny made to-day to dig the grave.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-09
LIMB BREAKS LEG

Blain, Pa, Jan. 9-Andrew CIouse
while cutting locust logs yesterday
morning for Andrew B. Couch, a
short distance from town, had his
right leg broken when struck by a
fallen limb. Z.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-09
UNION SERVICES WILL BE HELD

New CumbcfIand, Pa, Jan. r.
Next Sunday evening a union SER
vice will be held in Baughman
Memorial Methodist Church at 7.SO
o'clock. Mrs. Lula Sheppard, Of
Utah, will address the meeting. Spe-
cial music will be rendered by the
choir.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-09
"FLU" BACK AT LIVERPOOL,

LiverpooI, Pa, Jan. S.-The ''fiu''
is again gaining a serious foothold
in Liverpool and the surrounding
country districts. A large number
of new cases have been reported.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-09
Q. V. II. II. EMPLOYE REyTIREs

OTambcfsDufg, Pa, Jan. y.-JOhn
w. Bowers, of this place, has been
placed on the pension list of the
Cumberland Valley Railroad after
thirty years of service in the rail-
road blacksmith shop here.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-09
DAUPHIN

Mrs. Naomi Herman, of Harris,
burg, is visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Wolf. n.
Mrs. L. C. KelL of Great Falls,
Montana, and Miss Elizabeth Lyter
visited their brother, Harry Lyter,
of Harrisburg. M
Mrs. II. M. Reed spent several DAYS
with Mrs. Blanch Robinson, Mechan-
icsburg. q
Mr.. and Mrs. William Irwin and
son.. John, were the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Howard McElwee, at The
Meadows, Linglestown.
Mrs. Herbert Foster. who has been
visiting her parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles A. Shaffer. left Wednesday
for Boston.
A delegation from Camp No. 424,
P. o. $. of A., made visit to Camp
No. 572, P. o.. S. of A, at Halifax,
Tuesday evening.
Miss Mae Williams, of Harrfsburg,
spent Tuesday with her brother,
Frank Williams
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-09
PILLOW

Walter Strohecker moved to Trev-
orton on Tuesday. N
Harry Underkofler. of Philadel-
phia, spent "a few days here with his
friends. He was recently mustered
out of the United States service.
Mrs. Frank Shreffier is spending a
few days at Trevorton.
Frank Snyder received several war
trophies from his son, Charles II. Sny-
de-, of the Three Hundred and Six
teenth Infantry band, now stationed
at. Reville, France.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-09

erai appeals will be heard during thcI
week commencing February H.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-09

lIllIINIWlIIlNlTNlLInIlTIlIIIIINNllIInIImlMILI
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The Retired Clubs

ner of questions, lights and weights.
Comprised In the membership of
these little informal clubs or COM
panios are men of all ranks. poor,
comfortable, welto-do; the character
of the membership depending, of
course, on the park and on the neigh
borhood from which the members
come. But it Is to he noted that each
and every CLUB, whatever the nature
of its membership and wherever It
may meet, has for It's meeting place
the most favored spot in that local
ity. Doubtless the original member
with judicious eye. selected this and
the other members followed naturally
They look forward. the members
Of these, clubs, to their clubs daily
meetings; 1t Is their daily pleasure
Cheerfully, 1t may be gayly, they greet
one another as they arrive. and then
they talk or they keep silerce as
friends may do together. and so they
spend tine day not in sheer idleness
but In cheerfulness and discussion, TO
meet again In the morning.
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its author the sum of SIS. Sherlock
Holmes. the most widely known char
acter in all fiction, made his first APP
pearancc in The Study in Scarlet"
tale OF perhaps $4,000 words for which
Doyle, after repeated reflections, re-
ceived sl25.
There since have been Sherlock
Holmes stories, not nearly so good as
THE Study il Scarlet" from which
the eventual return has been almost
50 a word. There is now probably no
irdiscretion IN giving the information
that for the American rights only OF
certain Sherlock Holmes tales of ten
years ago, Golfers paid SO cents n
word. For the serial rights az "SIr
Nigel" the vastly infcrlo" sequel OF
The White Company" Doylc's COM
pensation was $4,000.
In estimating the earnings of Shcr-
| lock Holmes tho splendid royalties
accruinS from the William Gillette
stage presentations must not be over
/ looked. Magnificent. but to be regarded
in rnc -sreefrt Of j1rf reward ~ lrng
persistence. Thee were tho dark
years, nine or ten Of them, when
working with a heavy but undaunted
heart, he never earned, in any twelve
month, moro than $500 or 5000 by his
pen,
"TriIby" Goes for $4,000.
! George du Mdurier was delighted
with what he deemed the reckless
generosity OF his American publishers
when they offered him an outright sum
/ OF $4,000 for "Trilby." 1t was not al
together justified by the sale OF the
earlier Peter Ibbetson." Then "Tril-
by" became the most talked OF story
OF n decade, and high spirited counter
( feits OF the Musketeers Of the Brush,
Taffy. the Laird and Little Billce
stalked delightedly up and down Fifth
Avenue. The publishers tore up tho
original contract and substituted a
royalty basis, u procedure that made
life far easier for the aging Punch
dreughtsman of Hampstead Heath.
/ For 1.-The Marian" du Naurier was
! paid outright the sum of 100000, In
addition the publishers did n very UNI
usual thing. They printed and bound
du Maurier's first rough scribbling OF
/ the tale, and from that draft the author
wrote the story as 1t eventually APP
peared
For mars years Hall Caine has li~Sa
| In a castle in tho Isle OF Man, and Mis3
Marie Corellrs home at Stratford-on
Avon has occasionally diverted Amerl-
! can tourists from following the Shake
speare trail Mrs. Humphry Wards
profits from "The Marriage of William
Ashe." The History OF David Grisve.'
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respectable, to be compared with those
or his contemporaries. the elder Dumas
and Eugene Sue. As an indication, for
the serial rights of la Cousine Bette"
he received just 1885 francs, and for
lie Cousin Pons" 9,23S francs. For
the privilege of printing 1.-THE Wander
ing Jew" in daily instruments a Paris
newspaper paid Sue 100000 francs, n
figure that has been surpassed only a
few times in the annals of subsequent
literary plunging.
The story of Medan.
At Medan. near Paris, was the es-
tate OF Emile lola. The story of
Medan Is the story Of Zola's earnings
from his novels. The original house
was a small one, but later he made
additions. First came what was known
as "L'Assommoir Tower" containing
the spacious work room In which most
Of the later books were written. Then
came the Mana Tower" from the
proceeds of the indicated novel. From
La .Te-re ;, and. LA DebaSk" other.
improvements were paid for, with
suit.
To select playwright OF Zolas time,
Sardou. before his death, became one
of the most afiluent OF men.
1t was not disturbing to Gustave
F1aubert, who inherited n substantial
fortune, that, OF his books, Madame
Bovary" alone yielded a sound
financial return.
.Alphonse Daudet's condition of life
in the later years was In sharp con-
trast to the garnet in tho Rus Mouf-
fetard, where he and his brother went
to live soon after their arrival in
Paris.
Guy de Maupassant's yearly earn
| ings, according to his biographer, NJ.
Edouard Maynial, were from $4,000 to
10000 francs, For his novels he was
paid one franc line in the periodicals,
or, to use the terms of to-day, at the
rate of two or three cents word for
the serial rights. De Maupassant is
far from being an object of sympathy
on the score of material reward. He
had his Etratat home, no spent his
winters on tho Riviera and cruised
about the Mediterranean on his little
yacht. the Bel-Ami. But imagine a
magazine being able to buy for ap-
| proximately $50 The Necklace" so
often held up as the supreme example
In the art of telling a short story.
A few illustrations at random, dat
ing 20 the present from the period
when a nobleman or gentleman dab
bling IN literature. hy way OF incon-
sequential tip, abandoned his share Of
the profit 70 the publisher. Chattsr-
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dollars outright was the inadequate
payment for Henry Esmond." But
after he retired from the editorship OF
the CornhiH Md0aziue he received 100
guineas apiece for the little two or
three page essays that were afterward
collected as THE Roundabout Papers"
Earnings of the Elder Dumas.
AS picturesque as the most lurid
page OF his own Count of Monte
Cristo" was the story OF the literary
earnings Of the elder Dumas. Having
found money making easy. he or
ganized what his contemporaries were
pleased to call Dumas and Company"
He was the master cook, and saw no
harm in having a staff OF efficient I'M
der cooks to aid him in preparing the
banquet.
1t was at his direction and following
his suggestions that one young assist
ant, happy at the chance and proud
OF the association, carried the Che
Waller through the adventures Of a day
in the Journey Xxx cen Tours ~cna
Blois, while another for the purposes
OF projected chapter made copious
century travel In Anjou.
OF course, 1t was the masters name
alone that blazed at the head OF the
serial publication and appeared on the
cover of the subsequent book. lie was
ever ready to sign as many contracts
for the delivery of romances in the
future as contained clauses for adj
vance payments. He caused to be
constructed tho chateau that he
named Monte Cristo, maintained 1t
on a superb scale, keeping open
house for chance strangers and a
number OF more or less disreputable
hangers-on, squandering the money
faster than It came in. Sixty thou
sand dollars year was the average
OF his heyday, yet the talented prodi-
gal was often without twenty francs
OF ready money at his disposal.
There has never been a man of let =
ters with whom the idea of money was
more OF an obsession than Balzac.
Extant is the sheet OF paper on which
he jotted down the first suggestions for
the plot OF "Pere Goriot." Yet even In
planning the Maison Vauquer, which
Henry James has called "the most nor
tentous setting OF the scene in all fic-
tion," habit led him to interpolate
figures referring to his crushing debts
From the weight of those debts he
never quite freed himself, for the pos
session OF ready money was almost
certain to plunge him anew into some
visionary scheme or wildcat specula-
ton. Nor were his EARNINGS. though
" ~ a
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Writers of Recent Days.

OF the men and women of to-day Q
Of a recent yesterday there were F.
Hopkinson Smith, finding literatur
less trying and more profitable than his
other professions Of painting and
lighthouse building; f. Marion CraW-
ford. reaping a reward bv steady labor
that amounted to more than Eaf
million dollars; Thomas Dixon, deriv-
ing from The LoopUrd's spots alone
royalties Of 100000, am tine auoSor'
Of Mrs. Wigs Of the ca hnEc Patch
attaining degree Of n'uonlo that
was responsible for, eve if il did not
Justify. the widely cir mated ucws
Tr4per story tSE EE- hGS far'u"d - pr.
vate banking company ~ Louisville.
\ sale oc almost million copies
was ascr!uod 10 Mrs. Wigs Il tho
Cable &c Patch" aud others Of Mrs,
Rice's sex and craft who ha'o shared
the same good forturr 1-c ka,o
Douglas WigEin, Franc IlolE>ou
Burnett, Mary Wnkus Frc"ma"
Ellen Glasgow, Eath Wharton, and,
TO como down to the unnynt Gen'
Stratton-Porter and |try Roberts
RinehUt.
II was only three yea. a-o that the
will of the late Rio.rrl Harding
Davis told the story OF his life u wei,
deserved prosperity ard moro Gle
qucnt than the d-lrcs was the mem
org OF his bcautiial {. '1'o among the
Westchestor hills
George Barr Mccu'rH"on scld n"
copyright Of "Grgusrlr..' his tir
book. outright for 500. but sncc ths,
FIRST mi7taSc, fat" las been more than
kind. Beyond this sta'omcut It nigh
no not altogether dis,rcct 20 go, NJ
McCutcheon, Robert y. chamber
Owen Johnson, Gouvcrneur Morris,
Rex Beach Stewart Edward white.
Irving Bachelor, Booth 1arklngton are
a little too close TO u. TIE matter OF
their business ARRANGEMENTS some
what too Intimate, TAXING tho last
named. gentleman ~ an Illustration Y
is enough TO say b., the figures on
the check he reCipes for every new
tale dealing with NuIdinS icyhood or
awkward adolesceffe would meet the
entire approval ofette most enthusi-
astic admirer OF HArod Schoheld or
William Sylyanus kter
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incomes. and sixty or seventy might
reach four figures in their return.
while rather more than twice as many
made f4o0 year. 200 had to content
themselves with 100 a year or so and
the rest with little or nothing"
More cheerful wns Arnold Bennett
whose estimate was that over Il hun
dred novelists received 1900 for every
novel written; that certain number
counted their gains in thousands OF
pounds and that a handful ran into
Ave figures. one story teller he men
toned as having recently been paid
at the rate OF three shillinGs a word,
an advance upon the siXpence a word
that Stevenson could command ut the
end OF his career. Bennett did not
mention the name OF the happy au-
thor; the guess is that it was either
Kipling of Conan Doyle.
KipIing's Financial Rise.
Once upon a time there was a rather
bumptious young man newly arrived
fEep india w!o in certain pD5E!sA!S-A
houses in New York city Sainly sought
to dispose of tales bearing such names
as 1.-THE Man who Would Be King
and THE Drums of the Fore and Aft
at rate OF $50 apiece. His lack of
success and the subsequent fate of
the stories moved him to write later
a poem entitled THE Rhyme Of the
Three Captains in which the line,
the besant is hard, aye, and black"
referred sstirically to Sir Walter
Bessnt, Thomas Hardy and William
l.
removed financially from the Rudyard
Kipling OF more recent days. who for
the serial rights Of Kim" was paid
$4,000.
There was ono editor Of tie carly
years who listened and was per-
suaded. lie bought one OF tho
proffered yarns, and, when too late
regretted his action. So tho manu-
script was put away in a drawer and
| forgotten. Years later. when Kipling's
name was on every lip, editor and
author met Mt AN authors reception
! In New York. kiplinG recalled n pre-
vious meeting. When was that
said the puzzled editor. Reminded OF
the forgotten story, the editor rushed
to his office and soon had the sighted
tale in conspicous print.
The career of Sir Arthur Conan
| Doyle is a striking example OF the
| difference between the beginning and
/ the end in the long, long trail OF
! literary endeavor. lie was an under
graduate In a Scottish university wher
he wrote his FIRST story. IT was "rhC
Mystery OF sasassa Valley" and, unlike
most nrst stories. 1t was sold. yielding
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MARK TWAIN

ton, who starved in a garnet, did not
live long enough to undergo the real
struggle, the bitter years that make
for the final achievement In his last
days Millions most famous work was
written; Johnson learned in suffering
what he taught in song: SLOW rises
worth by poverty, Oppressed" Words
worth and Browning reached their
zenith without coming into the paying
public's ken; Cervantes was nearly 60
when he brought out Don Quixote";
Fielding was long past his prime when
he wrote Tom Jones'" and Oliver
Goldsmith did not live ten years to
enjoy the fame of The Vicar of Wake.
field; incidentally, to use the phrase
of Henry James, the spoiled child OF
our literature" Thackeray and George
Eliot were 40 when they began to
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write the great novels that paid, and
George Meredith was past GO when he
found his vein.
Thomas Carlyle made from literature
for the best part of his life less than
$1,000 a year. which moved him to the
warning that Not one literary man
in r. hundred cyer- hecoue-s popular or
successful at ALL"
George Gissing, whose own career
was one OF almost uninterrupted mis-
cry, told the pathetic story OF the
financial trials of modern Industrious
but unfortunate scribes in New Grub
Street" Sir Walter Besaht, who was
not only Industrious but canny as well,
calculated in THE Pen and the Book"
that there were some 1900 writing
English novelists at work of whom
some dozen ut the most gained large
The sun., 1919-03-23
TOT all the men who sit daily
II in the parks are tramps, or


M in the parks are tramps, or
- down and-outers, or men out
Of work, or mere idlers. or men sick
and miserable or otherwise folorn;
among the regulars on the park
benches You will And men OF still an
other class, men OF maturer years, who
have retired from active life. who In
fact have got through work, and who
now come out daily to sit in the sun.
Those Other younger park sitters
are apt TO remain apart; each man TO
himself, but these older, retired men
are likely to be friendly, TO get to-
eether in lunches OF three or four,
four being about the limit TO- real
sociability. There are to be sure feeble
old men who sit by themselves, but
there Is not city park that Is not
meeting place Tor one or more of
these casually assembled retired clubs.
whose members, congenial men, come
together on every fair day to sit in the
sun and discuss With interest all man
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-28
20 YEARS AGO,

(From the East Oregonian, June 2s,
1879
J. II. Morrison has contracted 1000
bushels of wheat to Killlan and Tay-
lor.
Chief joseph and Young Chief were
escorted today to Wheeler's photo
studio. where they sat for their pho
tographs, attired as became their dig
nifty
J. L. Killian reports that there will
be an unusually large yield in the
Vansycle, Juniper and Helix neigh.
borhoods, and that grain will be of
the finest quality harvested for many
years. From 75 to so grains may be
counted on each head and are as
plump as could be wished.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. d. Stillman have
returned to Pendleton from their two
years stay in New York where Mr..
Stillman graduated with credit at
Cornell University. He will probably
practice law here.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-28
A $24OO MISTAKE

m man named Bader liv-
~ ing in Portland lost ST.
400 in cash because he
hid the money in his house in
stead of placing it in a bank or
investing it in war bonds of
some description.
The Bader money was stolen
by a burglar. He evidently
feared to trust his money to a
bank. His fears were not jus
titled. The average bank is a
safe institution to rely upon.
especially so since the advent
of the reserve banking system.
Under the reserve system any
member bank, and nearly all
banks belong, can turn to the
reserve bank for aid when it is
needed. Commercial paper,
which includes much farm pa
par, may be rediscounted. This
means that a bank after lend
ing heavily of its money may
within certain limitations place
its securities with its securities
with its reserve bank and get
new money for its uses. The
plan vastly improves the stabi-
lity of the banks, thus safe
guarding the depositor and at
the same time giving better ac-
commodations to business and
industrial enterprises.
To those who read newspa-
pers the foregoing is nothing
new. The facts have been pub
lished many times before and
are generally understood. Mr..
Bader was evidently not a
newspaper reader or if he read
them he did not believe what
they published. His mistake
has cost him S240O.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-28
WHAT OF NEXT wINTER2 ?

m + we suffer an acute house
~ shortage in Pendleton now
what will the situation be
this fall when people return
from vacations and move into
town for school purposes?
If at this time with building
operations supposedly at their
heighth we are making no
headway against the conges-
ton what may we expect next
winter when there will be addi-
tional people to care for?
AS shown by a news story
yesterday old barns are being
converted into dwelling houses
because other places are not
available. Many people are
living two families in a house
intended for but one family.
Those who do build houses for
rent find themselves 1itteraly
swamped with applications.
| Under such conditions what
is the community's duty; what
steps can be taken to improve
affairs? 1t is a problem de-
serving real attention. The 81
tuation is more serious than
many realize and it is provok-
considerable discomfort.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-28
WHEN +?
~IE PORTLAND OREGON

m1E PORTLAND OREGON
VI IAN takes a progressive
stand in reference to the
League of Nations. It is not
fair however to the one Ameri-
can most responsible for the
league, President Wilson. The
Portland paper would have
people believe the president is
as much at fault as the senate
for the controversy over the
ratification of the treaty.
On what evidence is such an
opinion formed? When did
President Wilson villify the Sc
nate or insi:t en- a breach IF
senatorial confidence? Whe.l
did he sign ar, round rob Ii?
When has he jeopardizei the
welfare of the nation and the
world by threatening to bIock
a won'.crf::I .aL,iment fo I'll.
sake of partisan tLds?
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-28

Sunday school .convenes at 10 a. m,
AT IL a. m. the pastor, ]. Francis
Morgan. presides at the communion
service. Brief address on "Consum-
ing Zeal" at s p. m. The subject is
Remembering Jerusalem"-An ap-
probation and test Of American citi-
zenship
Prayer and praise meeting We'd
nesday evening. Never dull. Always
helpful. A welcome for you. Regu-
lar business meeting Of session after
the meeting. Very important.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-28
Methodist.

All the intricate perplexing prob
lems of the world have to do with
man, and are largely produced by
him. These must also be solved by
him. With this viewpoint the pas
tor will speak upon Human Recon-
struction" at the IL a. m. service.
Sunday school convenes at 10 a, m.
Bring your children for this hour of
instruction and worship. Mr.. Herbert
Coffee, a former Troop D. member
and recently discharged from the
14s F. A. will speak at the evening
hour, p. m. You may be a question:
er at this service. Special music by
the choir and Miss Esther South.