Show WHAT ARE WE CONING TO IN FICTION A story paper published in the east has ha a serial which foreshadows fore shadows such a blending of political economy with romantic gush that those who read uch such literature way may be unconsciously acquiring information in the former while intent only upon the latter one of the illustrations in the novel referred to represents a lot of girls employed at the homestead works each registering a vow that under no circumstances cum eum stances shall ball a pinkerton man ever win her affections another represent bentean an encounter between a union worker and a pinkerton greatly to the form formers erPs advantage of course who looks and sets acts the part of a manly follow fellow with homely clothes on and is the hero while his rival is better dressed and more flashy but plainly a deceiver the typical villain 12 who la in a necea necessary sary entity in all such productions corn com meriting on B thin an eastern paper thinks it is bad enough to have your pews paper all filled up with economic discussions cussi cus pris but think what it will be when tables of percentages lurk in poems and when the most striking episode of the novel you are reading or trying to read turns on the advisability of imposing a specific duty of two cents a pound on jute butts butte 22 it then imagines Imi glues a last terrible scene in a story with a tooth title as arranged with reference to temporary oo interest in political economy as follows lows the two men stood face to co face on the brow of the cliff far below them moaned the sea high above them shone the palo pale passionless moon forging through the clouds indifferent to the interests of men clarence fitzallan realized that the of his bis fate had come he glared at reginald do you still assert that tin plate made in wales can be laid down in new york duty paid at 8 cents a pound lie he hissed biased between his blanch ing lips reginald looked him firmly in the eye his breath came hot and quick life was very sweet then to reginald but bat with a supreme effort he said it so clearly that fitzallan Fil felt it was a challenge 1 I told clara clam devere that swansea tin plate could be laid down duty paid at new york at 8 cents subject to the trade discounts ten days same as cash 11 no other words passed the two proud men the two rivals for the hand of a do devere vera clinched on the dizzy verge there was a swaying of bodies as they wrestled for life then a shout and next a splash beard far below and clarence fitzallan Fil stood alone there was no remorse in his heart there was moral triumph in his tone as he shouted rather than said so perish all those who would poison a young girls mind with deductions drawn from fraudulent statistics tir of tinplate tin plate production prepared for campaign purposes 11 this style of thing might not however as already suggested je be entirely destitute of advantage iv we have reached a condition of things in which it behooves every citizen to be informed regarding the principal political issues of the day but there are some who have all along refused and do still refuse to have anything to do with such questions this class clan we take it is mainly composed of those who are grea greatly aly addicted to notion fiction this being as nearly the exact opposite of tue the other as any sublunary thing we can think of well a liberal admixture of tariff acts facto ang and figu figures figurea reb force bill situations and the feasibility or aty of establishing native tin works in the united states with hairbreadth hair breadth Ps capes vows of love and threats of vengeance might be the means meane of making the unwilling swallow and even assimilate the one in order to get the other that IN tie lie would take his medicine with sugar costing coating he might not like it but no matter it must be gotten into his bla midst by ame means |