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s THE 0MAI1A DAILY ft EE: SATURDAY. MARCH 11, mua. Wonderful Values in Sample Hose A sample line consisting of about 800 dozen Ladies' and Men's nose, in fine German Lisle and Maco Cotton, come in plain, fancy and embroidered, in blacks, tans and grays, great variety of newest spring shades and patterns, worth up to 39c pair, I?1 A1 Atlf! If choice Saturday, pair 1A25 U3 OJIU in rVIRPT THE RELIABLE STORE. Great Sale of Men's Shirts The entire sample line of two large shirt manufacturers. Oome in Negligee, rieated or Stiff Bosom, in the very best of materials and patterns. They were all manufactured for spring trade and are worth from $ 1.00 to ft.GO are the greatest bargains ever offered in Omaha ' ?P choice Saturday i BEST SPRING STYLES IN MEN'S HATS We are showing a line of men's hats that are unsurpassed In point of style or ralue anywhere In the land. The Imperial $3.00 Tiger $3.00 John B. Stetson $3.50 to $5.00 Champion $2.50 Red Rover $2.00 ' THE VERY BEST TO BB FOUND AT TIIE PRICE 18 HERB. SPRING CAPS In aU the nob- A CI Went 1005 styles, at, from.... IU tpl SOFT AND STIFF FELT HATS from MARTIN- a :!T ..K. . 50c, 75c and $1 SPLENDID TRUN VALUES, at .2.50 to $30 18.0. .1.50 to $25 50c to 75c Boys' Shirt Waists 25c A fine line of waists in tight fit ting or blouse styles, made from fine gingham and madras, all sizes and colors :worth from 50c to 75c choice Saturday T)C while they last tD Men's Linen Collars, each ic The greatest collar values ever offered 1,000 dozen linen col lars, all sizes and styles bright, new, clean goods while 1 they last, Saturday, each. . .S 100 DOZ. SUSPENDERS for men av-d boys, with black enameled leather tips, are regular 25c and 60c values choice, Saturday, per pair, ffl, 10c and IUC ,75c AND $1.00 SWEATERS for men Hand boys, all good spring weights about 60 doz. In this lot on fi sale Saturday, choice... DC Meat Dept. Specials IMPOUNDS LEAF LARD 1.00 BORK LOIN8- , pound PORK ROA8T- pound. SPARS RIBS pound.... REX HAMS Q1 pound "I REX BACON-pound UIA&IOD C HAMS Hl pound ARMOUR'S STAR HAM (The Ham What Am) pound.. ARMOUR'S BACON pound ; , ARMOUR'S STAR LARD The bast OQ.n mad-3-pound pall Ol ARMOUR'S STAR LARD The best AZ.r made 6-pound pall OC ' "ARMOUR S SHIELD LARD . r a 8-pound pail fc'a-C ARIIOURB SHIELD LARD 6-pound pail ARMOUR'S SHIELD LARD 7Ckr 10-pound pall Af AU kinds of fresh and salt fish for Lent (send In your mail orders. ....6ic Sic ...Oic 10ic 10c 40c SPECIAL HOSIERY BARGAINS 75c LADIES' HAND EMBROIDERED LISLE HOSE In extremely pretty patterns, great snap Satur- ff day, at 35c pair; 8 pair for IUU Ladles' line lace foot or all-over lace lisle Hose at 1Cp pair, 85c and mJI MISSES' AND CHILDREN'S Heavy Ribbed Hose at 12c IOC 15c LADIES' COTTON HOSE In greys and blacks, O 1 special at , ....O3C NEW KAYSER SILK GLOVES in all the latest shades and stltchings, a magnificent line at $1.00, 75c, IP 60c and Dt LADIES' KID GLOVES from the H. G. Miller stock, new colors and .stltch ings, to close out quickly, PQ choice. .' O J C Bewitchin g Designs in Ready-to-Wear Garments New SuitsNew CoitsNew Waists Thousands of the newest and most beautiful ideas tor spring wear and every day brings us fresh arrival. ELEGANT NEW SUITS from the leading designers and manufacturers of Europe and America a .prodigal variety of fascinating designs in voiles, etamines, Panamas, serges, cheviots, silks all splendid values at $75-$50-$40-$30-$22.50-$15-$10-$8 90 20 SILK SHIRT WAIST SUIT, $14.90 As a Saturday special we will offer your choice ' of 75 beautiful Bilk suits, regular $20.00 values, at $14.90 $18.50 TAILOR SUIT AT $10 Your choice of 100 handsome tailor suits in jacket or blouse effect, great va riety of handsome fabrics in plain colors or fancy mixtures, manufac tured to sell at $18.50, at ... .10.00 Your money refunded if you are not perfectly satisfied' after purchasing these garments. SAMPLE COVERT COATS AT $9.90 200 beautiful jackets just received from our New York buyer, very best spring styles, silk and satin lined made to sell at $18.50, $15.00 and $12.50 choice Saturday. .9.90 SAMPLE COVERT COATS AT 4.95 175 sample covert coats in nobby designs, made to sell at $10.00 choice Saturday 4.95 FROM 750 TILL 9 P. M. $1.25 women's percale wrappers, at.. 79c HANDSOME CRAVENETTE COATS A tremendous stock of cravenettes, made by the leading manufacturers of N. Y., greatest variety shown in the city $35-$25-$20-$15-$12.50-$9.90 AS A SATURDAY SPECIAL we will offer 75 cravenette coats in very new est styles, worth $12.75, choice. 8.90 WOMEN'S SILK COATS Good val ues at $7.50 special at .......5.00 WOMEN'S DRESS SKIRTS 200 beautiful garments in silks, voiles, serges, broadcloths, etc., regular $10 and $12. values, sensational bar gains, Saturday at 5.00 $1.50 WOMEN'S WAISTS in vest ings, madras, sateens, flannels, etc., at, choice 50c BEAUTIFUL LINEN WAISTS in newest styles, at. $1.50-1.98-2.98-5.00 $2 Moire Underskirts, at ...... 1. 00 Millinerv Specials for Saturday m w Beautiful Hats, just the, thing for immediate wear, made of braid and lace, trimmed with ribbon bows and 4 worth $8.00, at .. SILK CHARLOTTE COR DAYS, handsomely trimmed, extremely pretty .98 designs, at $..ou nna.v TRIMMED STRAW II ATP, with new high crown JJJS and wide rim. at SPRING CAPS In 25 newest and best styles. . 'T C ranging in price from $1.25 to A large assortment of Baby Bonnets now on display. litest SATURDAY CORSET SPECIALS W. B., P. N. and American Reauty Cor sets, all good stylos In drab or white, secured by our buyer at a great bar bnin. All sizes Saturday, J,Q choice ntUK BATISTE AND TAPE GIRDLES in pink, blue, or white, regular 50c and 75c rallies, some slightly soiled. On sale Saturday, choice 30c 25c DOWAGER CORSETS For stout fig ures, double boned throughout, with two sets of hose supporters, come in drab and white, all sizes up " (f to 86, at. .UU NEW SPRING CORSETS in all the latest models, new high bust tapering waist etc., with long or short hip, in all standard makes, 1 (10 up from l.UU CANNED GOODS AND CEREAL MARKET STILL COMING DOWN 48-po flour und HIGHEST QUALITY GOODS fOR THE LEAST MONEY sacks high patent 1.48 15c 15c 19c 19c 19c Cotton Top Mattresses We are again In a position to supply you with these mattresses, which would regu larly cost $2.60 at the extremely - Kf low price of.. t.iJU First-clans In every respect, but ticking a faded. See them. 10-pound sacks best kiln dried corn meal 7 pounds best kiln dried oatmeal 6 pound! best hand picked navy bf k:i 6 pounds best pearl tapioca, sago, barley or farina 5- pounds good Japan ' rice The best mince meat, per package On-time yeast, per Of. package eapollo, per Cl- cake Ok, Gold Dust washing powder, per Cr package 10 bars best laundry 25C 6-pound pull pure fruit i f Jelly IC Large bottles pure tomato 7lr catsii? 2 RIO CANNED OOOD8 BALK. 2-pound cans finest sweet sugar . er oorn packed. Ov '2-gound cans fancy wax gg 9-gound cans fancy Lima 5c 2-gound cans fancy string ' 8-pound oana golden C-. pumpkin v. 8-pound cans' lye nominy. 5c 8-pound cans fancy e0 apples 8-pound cans golden table 7Xr syrup A I 8-pound cans solid packed 7Xr tomatoes J V 3-pound cans Wisconsin Early J una 7 lr sifted peas 3 1-pound can fancy Alaska Qf. salmon W l-;ound cans Cove Xr oysters Oil or mustard sardines, . Ar per can ORANGEY. ORANGES. ORANGES. The Highland navel oranges excel all others for sweetness, Juclness and rich flavor. They are considered by the Orang Growers' association the finest orange In the world. We ship them direct from tho growers., eaiuroay we win sen Regular Oo slse everywhere, our piicet per dosen Regular 36c slse everywhere, 2r)f our Dries, per dosen Regular SOo slse everywhere, Our orlce, pr dozen Regular 26a size everywhere, f Bp our Dries, per dozen suw Regular 20c size everywhere, . our New Oolor per rack.. EGGS. $2.50 SHIRT WRIST PATTERNS 98c A beautiful line of complete Embroidered. Shirt Waist Patterns, actually worth $2.50 on special saleTX Saturday, at, f choice Os s Big Shoe Sate Saturday . 25c 20c .174c . 15c 12c r dozen. o honey,. If If EGOS. EGGS. STRICTLY FRESH EGGS, i7c per dosen lM w Toilet Set Bargains Broken Lines in Decorated Toilet Sets Slop Jars, Wash Bowls and All Small Ware at 15c to 35c Don't fait to se them. OPALASION ART GLASS WARE Very handsome, In 60 different styles at choice lOo Decorated Serving Plates, each 2o Pitchers Decorated Butter Pads, each lo -.7- Brush Vases. Mouth Ewers, Soap Dishes! Bt- Dennl" Handled Cups, each. etc, parts of sets that sold as high as 115.00 par set. Slop Jars at 3Eo to $1.00 Chambers at.. ......26c to 60o Wash Bowls..... 26o to 76o Pitchers at.. .. 25c to 76o SPECTACLES, EYEGLASSES Correctly fitted at POPULAR PRICES in our OPTICAL DEPARTMENT Main floor. Hundreds of men's and women's fine sample shoes from the best factories In Lynn, Mass., and Rochester, N. i., also Brockton, Mass., In inen'a and women's fine shoes on sale Saturday, worth up to $3.00, at . ; Closing out the Brooks Bros.' line of ladles' fine shoes every pair hand turned and are absolutely worth $3.00, $4.00 and $4.60, at The celebrated John Mitchell $2.B0 shoes for men, at CROSSETTS LONG LIFE shoes the VERY BEST shoe In Omaha, for Men's $1.50 satin calf shoes, at Boys' and Youths' $1.50 satin calf shoes, at Women's and Misses' $1.50 fine kid lace shoes, at Childs' $1.00 turn lace or button shoes Little Gent $1.00 satin calf shoes.. Black Art Gum the finest preparation ever sold In the west for cleaning white and colored shoes at Childs' at. Agents lp Omaha for the celebrated Stetson and Crossett Shoes for Men, and the Ultra and Grover Shoes and Oxfords for Women. ; Grover Shoes are made ESPECIALLY for tender feet We have twenty six shapes In stock. EVERY PAIR FITS LIKE A GLOVEv 1.59 2.48 .2.00 .2.50 :98c ::::::::::::::::::::: 69c 15c a' 25-cent moccasins, all colors, ' 10c -is'lt- ''--- 50c FRENCH BRIAR PIPES 15c The re-assorted stock of the largest briar wood pipe factory In the. world, all styles, all sizes, worth from 35c to 75e all at one price C Saturday choice IJC Enticing Values in Muslin Underwear LADIES' SKIKTS with deep flounces of fine laces, embroi deries and inserting, with un derlay dust roflle beautiful new designs, worth up to $3.00 di vided into three lots for Satur daychoice j $1.98, $1.50 and 98c LADIES' GOWNS, made from. fine cambric and Nainsooks, handsomely trimmed with laces, embroideries, made extra full and long, and worth fully double the price we ask at 98c, 75c and 49c LADIES' CORSET COVERS, in newest and prettiest styles .n -n j to worth up to $i-at .. 49c, 39c and I9c LADIES' DRAWLRS, with deep um brella flounces, in clusters of tucks, lace and -embroidery trimmed worth 50c to $1.00 , -0 at ; 49c and 39o LADIES' VESTS AND PANTS, in medium weight and heavy ribbed worth 50c to 75c to close out quickly, Saturday JC Special Sheet Music We will place on BALE Saturday some of the latest hits, such as: "Jolly Ms Along"; 'Abraham ; "Coax Me": "In the Blelirh With the Girl You Love": "Girl Who Cares for Me"; "Good Bye, Little Girl, Good Bye": "Bf-ret of the Violet;" "In Old Ireland, Meet Ms There"; "Genevieve"; "Don't Cry, Katie Dear"; "Hollyhock"; "My Little Ray Doll": "By the Dear Old Dolaware"; "Little Boy From Lonesome Street"; "Come Horns Soldier Boy In Blue"; "Satisfied"; "Bt. Louie Tickle"; "Trlxy": "Fighting- the Flames"; "Field Day"; ''Dixie Doodle": . "Uncle Sammy"; 'T)ancs to the Moon"; "Chlcke Charley"; "Arabola"; "Buffalo Flyer"; "Innocence Walts"; "Tosan": "Louisiana. Waltses"; "Jolly Blacksmiths'': "Blue Grass Echoes"; "Ever Thin Waltses": "Memories Dream Waltsea"; "Iola" ana "Undercurrent" 11JV by per copy mail 14c Lace Curtain Sale An Immense purchase of high grade Lace Curtains from a large eastern con cern will be placed on sale MONDAY, March 12. Watch fiunuay papers for prices. RECORD RATES PAID WRITERS An Inquiry Into Keports of Fortunes Paid to Latter Day Authors. STORY WRITERS BETTER PAID THAN EVER Fancy Lamp Sam Handed Oat by Pub lishers for Contributions by Popular Authors Poets on the List. The prevalence of rosy public notions of th author's .harvest of cash has suggested an Inquiry into the facts of the case. These faots the New York publishers are natur ally in in excellent position to know, and though they decline to tell all the secrets of the prison house, (as one of them ex presses it), they tell enough to give a fair Idea of the truth. To adopt a sadly mechanical measure, how much a word does the publisher pay the author? Natur ally that depends upon ths author and ths publisher and the exigency. Take the case of those tew Sherlock Holmes stories, for whlch Collier's Weekly paid Blr Arthur C6nsn Doyle $46,000. The fact was widely advertised at the time. There were twelve stories and a rough but sufficiently ac curate calculation establishes for Blr Ar thur in that particular Instance a rate of about 00 cents a word. As far as the present inquiries went and by a sort of gensrsl sdmlsslon of the other publishers, that seems to be the top notch for a fic tion serial of that length. But hobody pre tends that Sir Arthur could command cur rently and continuously any such rate. A half of It, perhaps. Again, It Is known scorrs emulsion We don't put Scott's Ernul tion in the class of advertised cure-alls ; it doesnt belong there. We hardly like to use the word "cure" at all, but we are bound to say that it can be used for a great many troubles with great satisfaction. Its special function is to repair the waste of the body when the ordinary food does not nourish, and this means that it is useful, in many cases which are indicated by wast ing. Wet nad yea s staple be. COTT SOW Ml, t SO Mi. K Yak, that McClure's Magaslne paid Mr. Kipling $25,000 forthe English and American serial rights to "Kim." ' Figuring that out In the same fashion, and reducing to terms of words, you get about 3S cents a- word, which Is not so abnormal as ths Doyle rate just noted Is, In fact, about what Mr. Kipling's stories are worth in the market No other writer, so far as can be ascerr talned, demands and commands a rate con stantly so high, though in particular In stances Richard Harding Davis has gotten as much as 40 cents a word for his stories. Collier's Weekly, according to Mr. Collier own statement, has paid Mr. Davis as much as that, and descending as little as 25 cents. Maximum for Fiction. . The publishers of McClure's say the rate they paid Mr. Kipling for "Kim" Is their maximum for fiction. Other magaslnes, like Scrlbner's and the Century, decline to give any specific figures for a maximum, Tet the Century's exploit years ago In paying 160,000 for Hay anu Mlcoiay's "Life of Lincoln" Is as muoh a part of history as the price Milton received for "Paradise Lost." Ths value In that case, however, was strategic, not literary, and the lm mense increase in the circulation of the magazine Justified the expenditure and re imbursed the publishers In very brief spacs. Then Mrs. Humphrey Ward Is known to have got from several magazines as much aa $16,000 In some cases more for novels of hers. But Mrs. Ward's books are lona- and tho rate per word would fall far be low the 36 cents already quoted for Mr. Kipling. Jt appears that Mr. Booth Tark- lngton can. at the present time, command something like 26 cents a word, and most magazines have a favorite author or two who gets as much. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, who is widely popular, gets 10 cents a word currently. Generally speaking, of course, no author can command foi any length of time his highest rate. ' Circum stances which may have justified paying him 60 cents a word In ons instance may In another hardly Justify a 10-cent rate. Indeed, for a good reliable story teller one upon whose entertaining powers the publlo has learned to count a rate of 10 cents a word Is sxceedlngly good so all the publishers agree 6 cents a word Is good for most. Yet even "literary hacks" Just now are spt to demand t or S cents a word, a rate which the publishers con sider excessive and unreasonable. , It may be Interesting to note here a fact which will appear to many unfortunate, though ths commercial aspect of the pub lishing business makes It unavoidable thst such things should be. The fact Is this: A wonderful literary magician like Mr. Joseph Conrad, because hs writes In a fashion which (like grand opera to Ita devotee) apn.la rather to the distinctly llterarylly Inclined than to the average reafler. gets a ver'yi small rate by com parlaua with more popular authors of In finitely smullcr cullber. One of Mr. Con rad's publlMiers, for Instance, said Ills rate would no figure out to more than 6 cents a word. Terms Trade Secret. To pass on. - Harper V Brothers dar.lar that they have rarely paid more for serial rights in any story thsn in the esse of "Daniel Deronda," for which George Eliot received from them $12,000. However, they do not pretend to make this an absolute maximum, and, while they will not them selves say anything about It, it is perfectly safe to put the price they paid for "Lady Roso's Daughter" or "The Marriage of WU- Ham Ashe" considerably higher. Obviously, In these matters of the prices paid living authors, the publishers are bound to say very little. In the first place. It is Invidious, as it affects ths authors who get the lesser rates. In the second place, It tends to the disadvantage of the publishers themselves, because It Is apt to enoourage an already sufficiently lively competition among the various houses for the best paying (and consequently best paid) writers. No sooner, In fact, had the writer broached the matter of authors' rates than one publisher up lifted eyes and hands. "The discussion of that subject in the press," said he, "is bad for the trade. It tends of Itself to raise those rates. Somebody will read your arti cle and then come around here and ask twice as much aa It is worth for something he has written and that somebody, a fel low who used to be glad enough of a fair price." Nevertheleas, this publisher very courteously provided some important data. All the publishers consulted agreed upon this much, that the price of good magazine notion not the work of genius, but of serv iceable and dependable talent-had' rUen greatly In the last few years. One of them said the rate for such work had doubled In five years. On the other hand, thers was a general reluctance to say that the price of genius In so far aa genius might be said to have a price had risen In the same time. Even these dealers In genius refused to re duce the divine fire to commercial terms. They said It oouldn't be dona Proceeding, 11 of the publishers agreed that at the present time a rate of 10 to 15 cents a word was a most handsome remuneration for writers In the talent class. All similarly or all who would say anything about that phase of the matter admitted that a rate of 26 to 86 cents a word was for all prac tical magaslne purposes a maximum. Also, 11 of them admitted that there were excep tional circumstances that might Justify al most any rate for a given article a rsts soaring high above ths practical maximum and expressing itself not In cents, but In dollars. For Instance, magaslnes have fre quently paid Mr. Cleveland or Mr. Hay $1,000 or more for an article of under 1000 words. To be sure, these gentlemen do not In such cases contribute fiction. However, McClure's years sgo paid Tennyson $1,000 for his little poem called "The Throstle" a price which a mathematics! mind might readily figure Into a rate of something over $10 a word. And as much as twenty-five years age St. Nicholas paid the same poet the same price for an even briefer poem, called "Minnie and Winnie." Here the word rate would be at least $20. But It was not st all a question of words. It was a simple question of having for a particular occaalon a poem by Tennyson.' For a like reason. Collier's Weekly not many months ago paid Mr. Kipling $1,000 for his poem on the Russo-Japanese war, and there have been times when Jemts Whitcomb Riley has re ceived as much for a single short set of verses. Every one of these prices is so ab normal as to be quite outside any serious calculation, on the market price of litera ture. The budding, hopeful author must not figure his futures from such data. Gen erally extra tall prices are advertising de vicesas the publishers themselves, with engaging frankness, admit sometimes sin gularly successful advertising devices, sometimes lees fortunate In the outcome.. Reputation As an Asset. Let us repeat that the rate per word Is a measure entirely arbitrary and often quite misleading, for while many serials and short stories are purchased literally at so many cents a word, many are bought for a lump sum in utter disregard of length a shorter story often commanding a better price than a longer story by the same author. It has already been pointed out that times and occasions may make an author's rate anything or nothing, Tou have observed that fiction serials of some length have In the past few years fetched $46,000, $26,000. and $15,000 In cases already severally noted. The present writer's Inquiries seem to show that an ordinary serial, say of six or seven in stallments, in a reputable and established magazine, may return the writer any where from $260, for a ibegjnner, up to several thousands for a more practiced hand. Generally it takes something like a made reputation to command a thou sand for such a serial. Ten thousand dollars means a very successful and lucky author. In the nature of things these statements must be made at large. It would not do to pin them down to one magazine. As for short stories, running to three or four thousand words, they msy return ' the author from less than $100 to more than $1,000, depending on tho story, the author, ' the magazine In ' the case, the tiros, and a dozen other things. . How Prices Are Ganged, When we pass on to books (whether or not serialized) it appears that an author who has written a novel which has sold a lOO.uuu copies or tnereaoouis can, u nis next work is at all promising, command from his publisher $10,000 in advance, and a royalty of 20 per cent. This means that generally the publisher, with proper ad vertising and the help oi the author's previously acquired reputation, may In such cases count upon advsncs sales of the new book, amounting, to, say, 30,000 or 40,000 cople. For ths authors royalty upen that number of copies will Just about cover the $10,000 advance. If, as rather often happens, ths 30.000 copies are not sold In advance or later, the publisher has to score himself an error and perhsps a loss, instances in mina may noi u given here for excellent reasons. There have, however, betn several such In the past year. Perhaps somebody muy want to apply that measure of rale per word to a book which has bfaen a phenomenal success. By this means an Industrious calculator may reach some marvelous results. Sup pose, for Instance, you take ths accumu lated royalties on "Ben Hur" and divide by the number of words In the book, or suppose you do the like by "David Harum" or some of the novels of Mr. Hall Calne or Miss Corelll. The figure In any of those cases would be many dollars a word. Similarly you may get a rate of some thing like $1.25 a word for Mr. Winston Churchill's "Crisis," or by combining the book royalties with the price of the serial something like $1 a word for "Kim." Much more, of course, for "Plain Tales from the Hills." And you could take "Mrs. Wlggs of the Cabbage Patch" (some 20,000 words) and, accepting the publishers' reports of sales for the past three years (500,000 cop ies), give Mrs. Rice a word rate which would make thoso of the first lords of literature look like 30 cents to descend- to language which fits the case. If her roy alty were 20 per cent (that's about the maximum, but it's not unusual), you have no difficulty in seeing that "Mrs. Wlggs" reduces to more than $5 a word. These things are mentioned merely as matters curiously interesting to fork out and cheerful to contemplate. No such word rate ever entered into any sane publisher's calculations, and the bearing of such fine figures upon actual serial rates Is very slight. Those rates fluctuate, as has been shown, very widely within the limits of a third of a dollar, and only under stress of rare circumstances get above the one-third mark. Still rarer and less calculable cir cumstances are required to force them above the dollar mark. However, the reader may guess after such exercise tha bases of many of the stories of authors profits which he reads and hears. t 1 Profitable Work. The fact, alluded to at the beginning, remains. The journeyman storywright gets a better living than tie ever did, and more canny industrious members of the craft presently find themselves possessed by grace of their writings of an independent fortune, or an Income admitting rather luxurious living. So all the publishers say, and they add thst the multiplication of magazlnea and the widening of the market and of the reading Classen has done it. borne speak also of a growing sense of fairness a growing desire to give a literary person a worthy price for his wares. Yet, on Us other hand, several publishers said the author's reward had grown so great proportionately that the publisher was being starved of his legitimate share of the profits. More than ons publisher spoks of a readjustment (and a reduction of the average author's word rate) which must come. These gentlemen said that the per sons who market the author's wares have begun to see Where their too eager com petition is leading them. They are slowly resolving to call a halt ere It be too late. For they must all live. Meanwhile is ths author's harvest. New York Times. have been pursued by the pack. William Gould had the most exciting experience and his tale has aroused the farmers to organize hunting parties to exterminate the dogs. Gould was returning late in the evening from a hunting trip, when he heard the snarl of the wild dogs at hand. He saw a pair of gleaming eyes a couple of rods away and decided to kill the ani mal. But on attempting to Are he found he had no shells left. He looked appre hensively around and found that he was nearly surrounded. With his gun he made a dash at the nearest animal and succeeded in breaking through the line. With the start which his prompt action gave him he succeeded In reaching a barn not far away and slammed the door on the pur suing pack. Wild Don Abroad, For several yeurs the farmers of Wash ington valley, three miles west of Morris town, N. J., have been annoyed by a park of wtild dogs in Trowbridge mountain. These dogs grew so bold that In winter they often carried off sheep and hogs. Even cattle were attacked when the dogs were . hungry. Recently several hunters BLACK CAT BRINGS BAD LUCK Owners of One In Cincinnati Kept on the Hot by Knocking; Neighbors. . "Why should womankind fly In ths face of the old-time omen that a black cat brings bad luck? Mr. and Mrs. Alfred T. Johnson of Cln- cinclnnati are looking for the solution of the problem. It Is no light matter to them. Thrice within the past week they have been obliged to seek new quarters Just be cause hotel maids everywhere and without distinction rise up In overpowering combine against the Johnsons' pet black cat "Pretty." And Pretty's only fault seems to be that It is the prettiest and most Intelligent of its kind that ever entered Cincinnati. The sight of Pretty dressed up in frocks . and frol.rklng around with its doll baby and playing soldier would be cheap at a quarter In any side show, but It gives the hotel girls the fidgets every-time. That is why Mr. and Mrs. Johnson and Pretty had to vacate the Gerdes hotel to- day Just as they had to do at two other ho tels previously. They had been In the place a day end the girls would stand it no longer that Is, they would stsnd Pretty no longer. One of the maids nearly fainted when she saw the sign displayed at the Johnsons' door calling on persons to beware that they did not let the cat escape In opening ths doer. The panic spread. Manager Gerdes had to bow to the storm; It was a esse of pnrtlng with his guests or with his girls, and he could not run the hotel without the latter. Bo the notice to move was given. Manager Gerdes gave It with regret. Ha was Interested In Pretty and so were his male guests. Mr. ind Mta Johnson have sought quur- ters In a private house. Chleago Inter- Ocean. Diner's Digesters Destroy DKx-ila Germs and muko the stomach healthy. Buy them and try them. At Myers-Dillon Drug Co. SEASONABLE FASHIONS. NO. 4625-BOY'B OR GIRL'S DRES3. Sizes 2, 3, 4, 6, 6, 7, 8 and 9 years. For the accommodation cf readers of The Bee these patterns, which usually retail at, from 25 to 60 cents each, will be furnished st ths nomlnsl price of 10 cents. A supply Is now kpt at our office, so thoss who wish any pattern may get it slther by call ing or enclosing 10 cents, addressed "Pat tern Department. Bee, Omaha." or the Baby mm. n ' -suns' ' f 1 Mellin's Food an infant food without an equal except Mother's Milk. 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