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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : WUSD ESDAY , FEBRUARY 0 , 1808 ,
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It was four years since the night Tommy
Baldwin's father had brought "Towee" home
In his pocket n tiny , brlght-eed puppy
nut ) hot him down triumphantly on the floor
of tin- cluttered tenement room where they
lived , telling him to "Go tcr do hey " Towse.
with wonderful discrimination , waddled un
steadily nnd with many llttlo whining grunt.s
straight Into Tomm > 's nrras. Btretrhcd
out longingly to receive him , anil Baldwin
sah !
"Well , them's yor master , dorg. Tommy ,
he's jorn , lad , " and he and his wife laughed
at I lui boy's del I gilt.
And Towse grew a'nd waxed stronger nnd
morn beautiful every day , and ho was the
Joy and pride of Tommj's heart and the envy
of every other child In the tenement. Thor
oughbred to the backbone was TOWBO , having
only ono llnw on the whole of his glossy tlver-
coiorud llttlo body a white star on his
brtaRt , and this It was that had caused his
presentation to Tommy's father.
Tour ) eirs ! A great ileal can happen In
that time , and a great deal did happen to
Toinni ) Baldwin. Ilia hard-working , Kind-
hcartcd father was blown Into eternity In an
explosion at the factoiy where ho wmi em
ployed And his mother , Htruggllng for a
time to keep a home ; for Tow so nnd Tommy ,
followed a year Inter.
Tor two jeirs Turn in ) hail lived on the
streets Selling papers sometimes , or run-
ring eirands. Hut always and ever accom
panied b ) rouse , whose glossy coat begun
to show signs of wear and tear and neglect.
If Tommj had two ploi ccs of bread , Tovvso
wts sure to have ono and a half If there
was straw In the barrel or wagon In which
they s'epv , It was dhpos'd unijer the spaniel a
thin little lioily and Pommy's meager ribs
were prchsed against the l.aro boaids.
i\fter all that has been said , ) oti maj be-
lltvo that It was a very ragged , ehabbj llttlo
day bo was hauntf-d by the thought that
pusslbl ) It might be Towso
Tommy walked a mile next day to loolt
at the house where the golden-laired girl
lived with the epaulet who looked like Tow so
He wa $ lingering on the opposite ) stdo of the
street when the former ran up the steps
and rang the door bell. "Now de dorg'll
cqme to do. door , mabee , " thought Tommy.
SITC enough , as the- maid opened It the
spaniel slipped out and bounded about his
llttlo mlwtress Tommy drew nearer lie
was trembling , and his ees were as big
as saucers "K ! ho has do white spot on his
breast , .U'a him , " . Ho was half across the
street now.
"Tovvfe , " he said In ro low a voice that
he himself could scarcely hear It. The dog
stopped tapering and stood rigid , his ears
thrust forward and every muscle In h'a '
little body tense
"Why , HIJoU , what's the matter ? " asked
his mistress.
"Towso" a llttlo louder this time and
Tow so transformed himself Into a brown
streak and was In Tommy's arms before ) ou
could say "Jack Robinson , " licking his face
and Ifinfls'hnd fairly howling In his overpowering -
powering Jay ,
"O , O' " laid the llttlo girl. " \sk papa to
| come here , Norah " Then she went slowly to
I where. Tommy with his eyes full of tears
I was'sitting on the sidewalk talking to
Tow se.
"Ho Reotns to be fond of you , " said she.
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IOWSI3 TRANSFOU.MED HIMSELF INTO A BKOWN STHEAK.
pair thnt walked and trotted In close com
pany toward the upper part of the city one
winter morning. The enow was falling , and
the air keen and frosty. Icicles clung to the
long hair about Towsc's weary lega , and ho
paused frequently to bite away the * snow
that picked hard under his foot. "Come on
Tow so , " said Tommy at last , " ) ou an' me's
got tor do some snow clconln' dls mornln' ; "
no To\\bo pulled himself together and the two
went on faster than before.
Tommy worked like a small steam engln
that day while Towse sat en the curbstone
nt.d shivered and watched wistfully The boy
hid gone to an area door to return the sluvcl
nnd broom and had left Towse In the street
Ho was gone longer than usual , wilting for a
piece of cake the cook had promised him nnd
when he returned Towso was nowhere to bo
seen
"Towse. " ho called , "don't do d hldln' act ,
but come 'MO an' see wet I got. Some cake ,
TOWI.O , ciko' "
But tie Towse camp scampering to him
with a glad little whine
"fowbo1" this tlmo Tommy's voice was
louder and there was a bewildered ring In It ,
ns he looked apprehenalvpl ) ro nnd down the
turret "Towse , Towse Towse1" the anxloiih
\olco went ringing awa ) between the tall
houses and down to the end of the short
street , where It struck the wall of a chuirh
nnd came bounding back ag-ilu But Towso
did not rivpetul Again and again be called
with quivering lii . He ran hither nnd
thither like a thing possessed Ho forgot he
W.IH hungry nnd cold and at last sat down on
a curbstone nnd gave himself to to despilr.
Deep as his anguish \uia , it would have l > ec < n
ten times deeper could he have beheld his
beloved Tow se at that moment his head
imillled In a dirty red lundkeichlof , kicking
nnd rMwkig and struggling to free ' .ilmbclf
from the ainw of an Ill-favored man who was
hurrying away with him.
'I hat night Tomm ) ciept mournfully Into
"Yiu KIN KIII' nn ooiia. "
his cellar End wept and stretche-d out his
uins , and wept ufrcsh when no soft , warm
loving To HO crept Into them and nestled
close to his side.
And this was how Tawea was lost.
II.
Spring had come Tommy , poor llttlo
tugiant , liked to tit In the big squat n and
vatch thp trees rtid grass growing s-.ecnei
nnd greener There woo a ( irett ) little gl''l
of 10 wtio often walked there with her father
To this little ) maiden Tomm > 's heart went
out She was so level ) so fair , &y sweet ! so
over ) thing tlat Tnmni ) In hli uliort.
wr * > tcheHl life had never known Ono da > the
child dropped her glove and wont ou un-
1 ceding. Tummy pUked It up and with a
beating hctrt ran to deliver it luck ailn.
"Ycr dropped din , " said he. holding It out
In Ills grimy llttlu hand
" 0 , thank > ou , " said the child , and father
and daughter went on , Tommy following
tlowly at a goal distance. They went up the
utepa of a house on a quiet side street.
Tommy saw the front door open and a llttlo
brown object frisk- out and caper about the
gill His heart jumped up Into his throat.
How like , how Ilku To\\bel Hut ho was too
far off to tccl mre. Yet through all that
"Ho's my dorg , " explained Tommy , joy
fully.
"O , but papa bought him for me from
a man. Ho can't bo yours , " the chlld'fa
% olco tieintokHl and there were tears In her
eyev AL this moment her father appeared
"What's the matter , Uelle ? " ho asked
"Why , liljou , come here. "
But the dog drew nearer to Tommy and
the llttlo girl , who was growing moro and
moio tearful , said huskily
"Ho says that BIJou is his dog "
"An" he Is my dorg , an' nobody can't sa )
he ain't , " exclaimed Tommy defiantly.
"Como Into the house , " < -ald the gentleman -
man , "and we'll talk the matter over. We
shall have a crowd around us If we stay
hero. "
i III.
The oddly assorted party filed In through
the area door , Tow so keeping close to
Tommy and abjuring his llttlo mistress. It
was Tommy he lovexl Tommy whose ragged
liLels ho stuck to , and Tommy upon whom
his great wistful ees were fastened.
"And now , " haid the gentleman , "will
) ou tell me what all this means ? "
\iiel Tommy , disconcerted by his stir-
ro Hidings , began hesitatingly at first , till ,
forgetting his embarrassment In his love
for To who and the remembrance of hla own
soriows , ho waxed eloepient ,
"An" w'en I lost him , " ho concluded ,
"I des couldn't stun' it , an * I've been
olookin' ler him over since Fer , yer see ,
ho s all I got , " and Towso and hcV embraced
fencntly.
While ho told the story Tommy's ees ,
which were \ery clear and truthful , looked
trom father to daughter , and his arms
hugged Towse
"Wo can't doubt you , " said the gentle
man , "can we , Hello ? "
" 'N no , papa but will I have to glvo up
DIJou ? "
"I hope not , dear. I bought HIjou once
from tlio fellow who no doubt stele him
from you , Tommy He was a forlorn llttlt
object the' ) , bat ho locYks well now ; and
my little girl 's ' as fond of him as jou
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"Pliti can't be ho ain't all she's got , " in
let pointed Tommy
"Anj , I'm going to propose , " continued
the gentleman , "that ) ou sell him to mo
asaln "
'Me , tell Towse me ? Wen I des foun'
him1 Not by a long shot Her ain't no
money noi nothlti' would pay me for him "
The llttlo girl sobbed aloud , and Tovvse ,
noting the unusual sound , pricked up hta
ear * , and trotted qver to her , stretching his
brown nose up to lick her cheek The boy
watched this dcmonstratiui wistfully. Ilu
UIIH thinking of the desolation that would
fill her heart , when Tovvse should go out
with him to return no moro
"Yor reel fond of him , ain't ) er , " address
ing tl.ei child.
"Hos thu dearest llttlu dog that enei was ,
and I love him and please , please don't take
him awa ) "
Again the wistful look came Into Tommj's
oes , Ho called Towte softly , who ran to
him llko a lljtli , and ho sat down on the
floor and bowed his shagg ) head over the
dog's brown bed ) how soft and silky It wan ;
and the whlto star on his breast how whits
Never had Tommy teen him look as he did
now Ho remembered the day ho was lost
What a draggled , matted llttlo creature he
had looked , sitting on the curbstone , shiver
ing nnd whimpering with cold and hunger
They had been best companions , Towso and
lit1 , and nobody and nothing had filled the gap
in TonuiD's life after ho had lost him The
crust ho shared wl'h Toweo was truly sweeter
for the sharing , but crusts were scarce with
Tomm ) And the prett ) golden-haired girl
ho glanced up and caught her tearful eyen
fixed upon him Per a moment longer ho sit
with Towso's soft head pressed against his
cliosk and ono grimy hand slowly smoothing
the dog's silky ears Then , without a word
ho aroeo and walking to where the girl Mat
pUce'd Towsei In her lap.
"Yer nectn't tcr cry no moro ) er kin
Keep do dorg Qoodby Towso Hoi' him or
ho'll follor mo" And quick as a flash the
tattered figure darted out through the area
dear , and away llko a mad thing down the
stree't Tow so struggled to free himself
then finding ho could not , settled down with
a pitiful whine in hla mlstri'tc1 lap.
There Is a new olllco boy at Drown & Mar
vel's a bright , promising fellow. Ho an
swer B to the name of Tommy. Baldwin , aud
'goes ' homo every night to a heat little room
, at the top of the house where Towso llvces
so I conclude that licllc's father , who Is a
swift runner , overtook our hero on the day
! ho save up bis claim to Towse , and led him
back lo comfort nnd fortune
'llin \1MIOAD4. .
Ill < lic Knrlj Unto I'roplo Wore Sns-
lilrlnllK , 1m < Ciiniilim VlNit
Walter Huichlngs a prominent member o
the Conductors' aosoehtlon which met In St
Louis lercntly , and halls from Hngcrstown
Md , has bean a pAiscnger conductor on the
Norfolk fr AV-stern ro-id for nineteen years
and ran the flist train ( hit passed over this
reid This road pastes through a number o
hlstctlc localities From Hagerstown Md
to Hoanoke Va It passes through the battle
field of Antlntam and crosses the Potomac
rlxer at Shctiherdstown , and on to Charles
town W Va , where Jphn Drown was hanged
and runs b ) the Natural bridge
"When the Norfolk K We-ntem road Mrs :
began nmnltiR trains the dense Ignorance am
wonderful curiosity of the mountaineers fron
Ihe Uluo rldgc caused maliy amusing In
cldents" said Ml Huichlngs to a Globe-
Democrat reporter "I remember ono day at
old tody wan a oaBsemger on my train nnd
lift ! to watch her , the same as all other
mountaineers , to see that ftoe got oft at th
proper destination 1 tobk Up hef tttkct ns I
passed through the train , end an we were
pulling Into Uentonvllle. Va , I asked her I
that was not her station. She replied'Yes
this Is ni ) station , but a feller came througl
here and got my ticket and I dcci't know
whether It Is safe to get off without in )
ticket exnot' She believed that she ought
to have Cicr ticket before getting off I as
cured her that It was the habit of the man
who n.m the train to take the tickets For
several ) ears , when the mountaineers go
nbceird a train they would invariably knock
at the donr of a coach to sea If It were
rerncr for ( hem to'entoi. The men would re
move their hats on entering a.coach Jtwt an
If they were \lsltlng at a neighbor's house
Wl lie this was an exhibition of their Igno
nnce. It vvas also proof of their gentlllt ) at
he me The ) are klnd-hcirted and generous
"Ono day a > ounjr unman qolng | o Natural
"
Bridge wanted to pa ) Ifcr fare "in no Hgc
f-tanjjs I told hpi- tint a * Jt was a holiday
the eotrjiany would not accept stamps. Phr
then unwranpcd snnll htirdlrof piper and
look out a now $1 bill But r ie did not want
to give me tlit- bill tit til 1 Ind first given ln-r
the change is she was fearful that I might
Juiro off the train w'th her mono Crowds
of mountaineers u .cd to stind at he etillnns
and look with awe at the locomotive I Ime
oftnn hcaid them - remark'The May Mini
cnclnp is pantlm ? It must be tired' Tlie )
really regarded a 'locomotive as n sort of
KiMii-lmman being Msny a time I ' .nve t-e n
rMsrpTiRcrs slttlcg Inside a ccich rhovo their
he'd" thtongh n pane of.gl ss In a rled
window when the ) "tarted to teI ! their friends
goidho at .1 stltlnn The glass was dear
and rrany of them never had glass window *
it hiMitanwaj and so hev nexcr thoughl
that nil ) glaFd v\ns boforc. them "
"Ono dav , . going east out of Hrle , Pa on
the Pennsylvania rexid , " said A. B Bedell
formerly a Pennsl'vanla ' conductor , "I nil
acres ? a. man and h's 'anilly of a wife and
three children Ho handed me a letter
proper ! ) signed nnd stamped by the Iowa
Central comptn's officials , sajing that he
was a passenger conductor. In those da > n
pitch a letter would pass a man fico nnd
I told him It war as good as qold anl thai
he nnd his 'familv could ride with ma I
felt sorry for him , because he had a crip
pled son In his inrs , ind. 1 paid for th-
famlh's elinnci .it an eating s'atlon AVhei
wo stopped at the summit of the mountain
the man asked me to arrange for him t-
rtdo on the engine down the motin'nlr
While the train stopped nt the summit this
traveler happened to PIV that he was In >
railroad wreck n short time before , and
said that ono of the bull wheels on the
c-iglne b-oke In two , and that the ro : be
tween the two bull wheels wen broken
"Well , that man never rode on the cnfj'no
down the mountain I to'd him ho would
have to pav full fare for hlrroelf "and famll )
from that place on east. I sild lo him
'Any man who w" ! call a driving whe-ol
R bull wheel , and who will call ( lip ilrlvlnu
shnft the rod between the two wherh Is
not a conductor' He then ctmfrsspd tint
hevns a clerk In a dry goeds stole nn 1
tb < t he had obtained the railway letter
from a clerk in tlie railroad superintendent' 1
cflico at his homo If the man had Kept hi *
mouth shut I woul nver have been thr
"But men who try to piss thomoohcs off
is pap-engcp conductors in order lo get a
free ride can bo caught by simple trlc' ; =
Another time n passenger told mp he wnp
n conductor. I handed him rnv book an !
told him to write his mme Ho stood up
and pVicetl the book against the window-
nano In oreler1 to write his name. I told
him he could pay hta faro ; tint no cnn-
ductor would ulace a bcok api.lns1 a window
to do anv writing but would steady himself
ind catch the motion of the train , and hold
thn book in Ills hand while writing"
Conductor Ferguson of the Bcston & Maine
rrad is a tall slim Yankee with a keen
black 0)0 and Is a bom humor'nt
"Two men nnd. one woman nnd all well
drp iee1 boardpd m ) train one dav at Port
land Me , and wpre golne to Boston. " nid
Mr Ferguson "They told mp a sad nto-\
ibout Just ha\hg burlpd their father nnd
"sld they were return'ciR. liqirie. fiom the
'moral but that they had only J4 r.O in
cash The fare .for the thrpp wcs $7 r,0 I
felt sorrv of course As they appeared
to bo nil right I told them to keep their
monev to pav for their lunch nnd to glvo
mo their addro ? and they could send the
fares to mo when they were back home
Thev were delighted and were profuse In
thanks , and the- Woman shed tears Well
I never heard from them So I simply
wrote a letter to them , saying I thought
thcv had burled the wrong man "
Mr Ferguson H sometimes bothered with
"kickers. " as Is every other raao'nzer con
ductor Ono da ) a man boarded bis train
ind Immediately beean damning the roaJ
and even ofilohl of the comr-iov. Con
ductor Ferguson natiiralh defended the
rcvid The "kicker" then said :
"Oh well vou ire a conductor worklne
for this road end of course. )0ti would
defend It but what vou fay to mo goerc
'nto ' one oar and out at the other "
"Certalnlv Nothing to stop It , " retorted
Conductor Ferguson
Sometimes the "kickers" Invo eiuso for
growling T n Haley of St Joe Mo wm
once a conductor on a rend that ran mixed
trains , and this Is his storv
"Ono dav I had n mixed tra'n ' made of
i long freight with a single nafseneor coach
hitched to the caboose A dude , drecsel In
the latest fishlnn wi the onlv nssseneor
In the coach The brakeinrn andi 1 nr neir
the stove warmlnt ? our shins and llsten'rig '
'o the dude's denunciation of the reid
'Ivervthlng scorned to be wrong , according to
tils Ideas Suddenly thorn came one of
those suspicion * Blircro'i of thn freight trill
whkh to an exnerlfTioed rallrnnd mnn told
of drncor The brakonnn a"d I lost no time
ln running to the roar e"d of th coai-h
Tim b'.ikomon JumpeJ off on one side and I
t'-mnod on * on the other The > dude came
tiphlnd tw od Jumped strile'it ' out toward
the track and In the opnos'te ' direction from
which the train was nviMnir Hr > turned o
iia'f doon poinersati'ts ' In Ihe nlr anj fell
In i heap on the ground BV this tlmtt ti'o '
frelcht eirs wore fcattere'd oil over the
rlht of vvav. and me end of the pfs encer
cnirli was holstoil Into ( be air at 'n ani-lo
of 10 doRrees The n"or dude bleeding hli
clothes torn 'into * rpInrroed un 'rom tlie
eround looked at thp debris ind then reg
istered another 'I > I"V brnWlni' In an ancrv
tone : 'Now w 't th devil "i the matter ? ' "
liiinlH * lii 'ttrii Slinri1 "
That division of Maryland which la known
as "The Eastern Shore" contains no vast
extent of territory and It Is peopled bv no
mmense multitudes En ) Calvin 0111 Wll'on
n Llpplncott'a No great historical event
ias occurred there : It has not had the fierce
Ight of publicity turned upon every hap
pening within Its borders , It Is not a stain-
It 1s not an cirn're ' It has no iro'd ' or silver
or coal mines no oil nr gas wells ; and It
has no Inmerlal poMlhlMfre It Is not the
renter of the world no lart-o metropolis !
exists upon It and none will over exist
; here ) .
Nevertheless , It la a famous region ; Its
ocal name Is known to most of the Intelli
gent cltlzeim of the United State * and the
ilaco Indicated by the tltlei U at once under
stood. U has B greatness of Its own and has
claims upon public attention. Ils situation
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Importers and Manufacturera
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6r4-16-18 South nth Street
BAKING POWDER EXTRACTS.
SYRUPS ,
B , Sorghum , etc. Presence and Jellies
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n demand everywhere In this land and in
nany r > ! aces outside Ameilca , and its fame
s great , because of the bonsatlons It pro
vides for the palates of men. No district
n the ancient world was more Justly cele-
jrated for i/rovlblons for nleaslng the epi
cure than this territory , which is sometimes
bought of as a mere bundbar. The grapes
of Uphrlum or the onions nnd garlic of
'gpt were not more fninouo among the I
Jews , nor the wheat fields of Kgpt among i
he Romans , nor the eel and mullet ponds J
of Lucullus , nor the wines of Kalernia.
among the sarno people , than borne of the
products of this region arc among mod
erns.
The eastern shore produces moro table
lellcacles than any other region of equal
area ; and It is claimed that a family may
hero enjoy the luxuries of life cheaper
than clsewheie and that the really poor man
can live on the ponlnsula for less than any
where else , save , perhaps , In parts of Asia ,
The poorest Inhabitants of the peninsula are
colored people. The rural negro there prob
ably averages annually for his work less
Imn $200 in cash and many earn less than
1DO a year , while others earn less than $100 j
n cash Nevertheless , tlio negro of the
icninsula 1-3 seldom without means of ap
peasing his hunger and of clothing hlm-
elf comfortably. The winter Is nluajs \
liort and usually mild , while fuel 1H ex-1
remclj cheap and In many parts to bo had 1
or the gathering. It has been estimated by \
these familiar with the country and upon
the basis of the cost of a slave's keep In
the old das , that a man may supply his
needs on the peninsula for about SCO a year
quote an authority which slates that a
cabin and a llttlp patch of ground can be
rented for $20 a ) ear One thousand her
ring can be bought for BO centa nnd cured
and l-arrcled for 50 cents more , making $1
In all. One hundred and eighty pounds of
pork , at 6 cents a pound , cost $1080 , SCO
> oundB of corn nual can be had for $10 ,
offec , sugar and tobacco can bo supplied
or JO and clothing for $15. total , $02 SO
'ho man also cultivates his patch for vege
tables nnd feeding ch'ekens ' There Is
ian ) a negro family living in just this
SKhlon
The children provide wild berries as um-
ler luxuries and In goal stars peaches may
ic had for the asking In summer the thll-
ren wear little clothing and In winter the
ast-off raps of tt-elr parents stilllee If the
family lives along a Htrlp of Bit water
then * may bo had crabs , clams , ojstern free
The man st forest and the shores of the
river and bay furnish fuel. Hut there are
many -there who live on even Ices than $ CO
In rash per year , theto hunt and Huh through
out ll.o ) o r. find a bed in BOIIIO othi r man's
cabin pa > for U m proceeds cf rod and gun ,
and near some white man's cast-off cloth-
Ing.
Ing.It la worth while to wee them drho into j
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oiii1 of the villages , say on a Saturday , when
the countiy peoole are BatlierltiR to do tliclr
chopping. Ono will see many an old negro
come rtrhlnfc In at , \ snail's puce , clad In Ill-
fitting garments , too big or tea little , of any
color or no color ragged end patched , He
slouches on the seat of hla tumbledown
\\BKOII , as If It were too mutli troublia to olt
I erect , or as if he wore about to fall oxer
I Into the bottom of thp vehicle and BO to
| sleep. His steed is a mule , small , bony ,
stoned-looking , wabbling In gait , nery
caricature of his kind Ono expects him
every moment to ute : > and go to feeding on
the gp ss that grows near the gutter. The
\\apon rattles from afar ; e\cry bo t and screw
Is loose the wheels set m about to fall en
tirely off : the elJeboards swaj , and the scat
mo\cs fiom side to side apparently at the
pel 11 of the occupant The harness is com-
jioseil largely of rorsjund twine , the lines aru
innocent of all accusation of being leather.
One would be willing to risk his life on a
venture that mich a team would never get
dottii the Btiect to the hitching place by tlio
rump ; but tils zigzag Journey Is s > ely made ,
with no sign of anxiety on the part of the
drher. And lie halls his lounging comrades
on the pueinent with a gultaw 'that ' can bo
he.ird n mile ; the voices of the Ill-clad but
happy group sound mellow and sweet and
gnoJ-naturtd as they el aff each oth'-r These ]
% olces arc the \ery expression of the haijp1
go-lucky , idle easy , caieltsa life of thtso
people , tco Indolent to sound all the sylla
bi a of the r words. Vet thej arc h ppy , to
sco and hear them ono would think there
was no tomorrow , nothing to be done in the
world , and no such thing as care upon earth.
TIII ; i .v\ ori'nioits. .
SoiiuI'll IN . \lioiil < li ' Income of
\uti-il \\rltoi-N ,
The pajment of authorn hat DOW become
oa popular a theme at their quarreu uted ,
to be. writes JaiiHM I'a > n in the Independent ,
and there lb as much exaggeration In the cno j
case as there was In the other. No daub' j
half a dozen of our foremonM norells
receive more for their works than writerw
of fiction , with perhaps three exceptions '
Scott , Victor Hugo and Dickers ha\o e\er
done : perhero one of these Is sulllclentlj
rapid In production lo produce 0 000 or H.OOO
i ) rar , which ma ) be taken as the high-
water mark of a modern novelist's Income
That of the vast majorltj are , on the other
hand , atery low water 'Ihe attempt to
pro\o a writers gains by the sum ho lea > ra
behind. IB to the last degree unreasonable
Id It supposed tbit authora put by all they
get , and that the ) do not need , like other * ,
to eupport themsehcs b ) their profession *
Some again are bachelors others hate large
famlllca , some ll\e Lcnd'omely and some
moderate y , and It la possible eomo penurl-
ousl ) , I confer however , though I ha\u
known many impecunious authorn I haxe
timer known a penurious one Within the1m
year or two as much ae 10 000 has been paid
lor a novel la three caeca , but to judge
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411-415 B. UUi atreet.
by the output of their authors , th's ' only
means -1,009 a jear Ultkens , who wrote
rapidly , must have real I/ml very largo sums ,
but ho lud large domestic expenses and
lived in something moic tliscj comfort ; If It
had not been for hla readings , especially In
America ho would not hav left 50,000 be
hind him , a mere bagatelle compared with
the wills tlat are published every week
Victor Hugo died Immensely rich for an
author , but hoiib n student of economy
and sn excellent man of business and lud
the reputation of having ruined two pub-
Ihhera
There has been a strange attempt lately to
show that authors wore "In the hlghist and
noblest fconse" ( a term generally coplled to
"mccal vktoilcs" In politics ) better off three
generations ago thin at present , and more
over more dlgnlfle < ' nnd with a keener sense
of the honor of their profession It Is really
most renvrkatlo , for the euiller conttlbutoiti
to .Mdga. as represented to us In the book In
question , are by no means of an attractive
tpe and might be divided into two classes
the Insolent nnd the liroacunlotifl It Is 01(11 (
cult to dltcovcr. Indeed In what their
superlorlt ) to the writers of dw own day
consists , but w.iat Is ino. t dwelt upon \K \ their
debasing and sordid habit of being paid by
the thotisfod woids Instead of "tho sheet "
Tlio modern lutlior Is supposed to tpend ' .ils
opening ! ? In rout tl'ig the vords ho has writ
ten daring the day and chaiglng Tor them
from a fti thing to a shilling eni.li in pro
portion lo his popularity I havu never seen
one engage ! In this occuoatlui , which how
ever Interesting , strikes mic as nunutanous
llyron who was full of fads , had an ob
jection ( which Me soon gut over ) to poets
taking mcney for their vertes and eapocUlly
to tl.or being naid by the line , he Mieered
nt the author of "Mwinlon" for getting for
his muse "Jtut half a crown n line. " Ho
th tight , perhaps , that a poet , If paid at all ,
should boAid \ \ by the cantj , more piobabl )
he only thought of SB ) Ing something of
fensive uhliAi I atn afrold li also the motive
for t-onio of thtto dlutrlbtH against the iuy-
mtnt per thvisjnd woruV
The fart that the letters of literary men
are nou few and far let ween Is unques
tionable , every modem biogmph ) the latt
one , TcnnjJon'H , In a convincing example of
It Is a proof of this , but it Is hardly
fair that men of letters should be dliugrcu-
abl ) contrasted with their prcdccessois on
this account , ami accused of greid Their
pens , fortunately fur them , arc much moro
coiibtantly emplord thun they ujed to be ,
an.l they have not the tame time for letter
writing , It la not only because they are
not paid for It thouph Wendell Hohm re
marks very sensibly that It la not to U
expLttcJ that an author should glvo to un
necessary tvrrcupondeiKO what ho can get
5 for from a publisher but betouse they
havii only a certain amount of wits to expend
pond per diem When Horwco Walpolo had
written ono of bin long and amimlng letters
he had taxed his Inte-lllgcnto at leant at ;
mucli as If he bad coiuixuid a humorous
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Of Readable News
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Read The Bee.
essay ( much more , ono would think , than a
chapter of his "Castlo of Otranto" ) , and
persons who live by their pens cannot affor 1
to do this I htvo , indeed , icail i > oiu-
wheio tint Thackeray ulwds wrolo hli
letters befoio ulttliig down to his woik but
I think it it-ry unlikely , and at all ov i
it is not every writer who has the l ri ,
stock of Ideas tint ho possessed The In t
copious letter-writer among authors \vui
Miss Mltford , but her literary output ton *
sideling her long llterurv life was not
largo , and though exceedingly hocl.il In htr
tahteu , .she lived In the ( otintry , and hud
no means of keeping up her connection
with her filcnls oxcc-pt through the poht
Mm cover , wo must remember that In old
days postage wan very dear , and utithon
poor , so when the > y did write they wrolo
long letters to save this Item of expendi
ture.
IN riilironilii'H riliiinlc Clnumlnuf
The rllnuto of CVIfornla l dp-ld.il1/ .
ehanglng. deel.mti the Bun Ki.im'ls. o Ni w *
Keller , Iteporlw from the couth npx-ak f
heavy snow HtciruiH. Wo mid of Sun Ilit-
nardino , Iti lliindH nnd Hlvcisldo. li.ivlmt ill
the way fiom tluec to live Inchon of HIIOW
and tin bialKhCK of nrnngo tn.cn bri iking
down htm nth llw mcU'lit ThN IB In tlio
dioko 01 nirfi-Kt .wing Hoctloii It IH ( oil ilu
Ihrit It the mr-n who lm\c jiianlcil tln u
hoiiutlful Kroviw hud over thought of pro + -
ixotlvt * xnowfiillH not dollar '
H wou'il i\ r
liiiV" bi en put In thirtThe. . town of HI I-
landH , mid there an few Tirol tier In the
nt itc , II.IH IK in built up liy therl'h totiil-t
who , filling In love Mlth the- locution ml
tin InHdloiiH ctorlPK told b ) thu land Hi-1 n ,
pure hand orarmiIjnd under tlin asmimii-
lion thitt thti ji'ate ' was ntwr iiffetttd l.y
fiost lleforc ctillivctlon Itlversldf w n
Helu.illy un < li ) tin n desert. Ut > w win 11-
mtst iiiiknuvvn and on nreotint of IhlH dr > -
ntss It vvaf much nought afli r by tmirl tn
troubled with pulmon ny compl ilitH hut Ilia
growth of tret nnd much vcgni.iiluri Ix't
deslroed thU an1 Itlve-rMlde eannot Ity
claim to the distinction of being the bi l
place In thu I'nlttd Kt.itiH for the e on-
unniJthc It IH owing to thin Unit the
desert l > now rec ommondcd but again I lie *
few e'aHef In the duett which ' .vert1 at ono
tltnn fr tlc s and nilnlcfH , are nlno chitirf-
Ing theli ( li n a < tcr , owing to cultivation
If the Kiniih IH ) i ir nfti i > iir to be thin
nttailud l fruxt nnd tmow UK only In-
diiHtry wl I inelvc n blow from which It
will in Him In mvcr able to ricovci.
, l < -Mi'lr > Idlril li > Sni-nU TliliMCN ,
ST. LOt'Irf , Keb 8 The police report tint
MrH Jtiini-is O , West of New York , vtho !
vlsltlnif hire , at the home of Frank I. , Nui-
ton lias Ktifftred tlui loss of $7,001 worth ot
diamonds ur.d Jewilry , whleh weretakt n liy
Hiieuk tlilevei wlillc the Nortotia und tbtir
guext uim at tin illnnir tnli'o last nlgbt.
Mrs \Virt IH un aunt of Mr Norton With
he-r Illinium ! , a wealthy cnpltalUt , Hhe live <
at the Wildoif-Ax'orU hotel and IH a well
known 11 mi re In New V rk society Tbei
Jewels sto'en were culke-tud during ye-im
of travel In all p.m.of the world and ( au ( I
rot be dtiplleated { or many tlmca their vus-