| Show ON AUT I 1 what Putli alters pay for stories from aberion writers chicago ueral A well known local auther came out of the offrice of a publishing firm looking black as thunder yes berd L morning I 1 W bats the trouble old roan asked a friend you look as mother in lav bad just arrived for it six inon t ha v 1 1 sit trouble echoed the gloomy author why abat do you think alere ive worked night and day for three months on a 11 8 1 tory a good lively yarn with 11 interesting plot and innumerable exciting incidents just such a story as the depraved taste times demands and gets 1 took it to that wretch in there pointing scornfully tow ard the publishers office he read pro i bounced it excellent and time and V asked what id tell it for am a little bard up for ready chash so I 1 thought I 1 would be easy with the fellow and replied 11 mu ald he three hundred dollars I 1 repeated 11 aly dear air responded id the heartless scoundrel you have extravagant trava gant ideas as to the value of literary work jbv that is aspre post erous figure u must ete down a little before can deal wit 0 you 11 well 1 maa na efrer I 1 said desperately and be as liberal as you can ill give you 75 for the story he said cooly drawing his check book toward him five dollars 1 l ailed in amazement yes very liberal these times of course you will allow a roy ally as well nary a royalty said the pub isher seventy civo is for art out and out sale I 1 grabbed the manuscript in asked him how he ex pecked american literature to under such beg gardly rates ably dear air be said blandly 1 I am not the conservator or pr niter of american literature I 1 r i P t an d u blich books to make a fi vo v ing u turn up your nose at 75 wity I 1 can get the plates of works by popular en glish authors all already for the press for s od those books command a ready a le at chea rim I 1 so you see im res ily T eaf i g liberally with u come you lt better take a beek I 1 of course you spurned the 11 rno T ej to where you I 1 ir w an 11 answered the disconsolate of 1 I owed two mont hobo ar d and wanted money besides I 1 knew what he said about the bre ign works is true that publishers get the plates for amere song and are callous to the claims of native authors hes got the manuscript and im going to a abent join the h era union and shoulder bricks and mo r ta r f or the beit of my natural I 1 ife JOSH 13 ILLINGS said if a man professes to serve the londhe likes to see him do it when he measures onions as well as when he hollers ballel uyer judge adoram has declined to act as c chairman of the irish catholia Ca tholie mug meeting to be held in chicago to discuss tile papal some startling facts relative to the defunct maritime bank of st johns N B have leaked out in court it appears that the manager kept two set of books to bide the true state of affairs ild Is said to be operating now in real estate in omaha |
