Show tilt SlI ClDE the cause 0 o half dean digap in lou john selman a brother of the roan who committed fin icicle lad tuesday evening was in aden esterday eRt erday and was been by a reporter ul THE faram to libin tam stated that the cause of the suicide A as a loye allair and not that of loaine money at gambling he knew the affairs of hag brother probably better than any other person and be was that the aise was not a matter of money during last winter the unfortunate mai became acquainted with a young lady of hooper and began to pay hla aten tiona to her As they ft ere separated a correspondence was kept up between them until sometime come time last march when the came to ogden where the lady then resided after his return he continued to ante but the correspondence for some reason was not satisfactory and lie became gloomy and depres wd on may he settled up bis affairs having disposed of his sheep and showed hta broihier br oilier papers tor which can lie found to day on june ast 1st lio came to randolph where the sheep were herded and talked of going away about the close of june he left for california and was cone for a little over a on liia return he ap roared to benr a morn imil and his brother thought that he was gradually getling over the disappointment in love lie took up his abode at chippa the river aej appeared to get blonk all right taking more interest in outside matters than he had done for some months owing to these bilings the death of tom was a surprise to hia many friends and to his relatives the can be found today to day and therefore the brother does does not think that financial matters bad anything to do with the cause of his action A berry in her ose on wednesday last sir almaa montgomery of north caino to ogden in search of a physician lie brought with him a little daughter 3 years old who had while playing shoved a hawthorn berry so far into her nose that the parents could cot extract it dr alien was found and be placed the child under the influence of chloroform and took the obstacle from the nasal organ much to the relief of the child which was suffering quits a little pain from tho accident inn paper deal aug 1 A W lyman who for several ears hag had the washington bureau of the new york sun has purchased the controlling interest in the helena independent and took possession today figures COLUMBUS ohio aug 1 the low liquor tax reports lor the first half of which have been received by the auditor of the bbate show saloons in the state an increase of the receipts to the revenue fund are an increase of printers washington aug I 1 about thirty of the working force of which a large number aino from maryland acro discharged yesterday from the government printing office W J bok in st gouni despite all that one can say or write against novel writing I 1 suppose alio fictionist will go on and write but the fact remains nevertheless th eless that the average novel docs not pay the author for his trouble and often does not cover the typewriters bill 1 know of two recent novela upon which each of the authors spent the best part of a year in writing and revising both novels are according to the popular acceptance of the term successful that is they have been widely written about paragraphed in the press form one end of tho country to another english editions have been printed of each and to every literary person the names of both novels and authors are thoroughly familiar now what havo the aulhorn received in hard cash for their yeara work I 1 will tell you exactly of one 1700 copies were sold no royalty waa paid upon the first thousand to cover eoanu facture etc and upon the remain ing copies the author received the regular 10 percent abo book sold for 81 the net revenue to the author was therefore his typewriters type writers bill was net profit and the book haa stopped selling the other author was a trifle more fortunate in that bis novel reach edthe eale of 2000 all but five copies like the first he received 10 per cent royalty only after the first thousand copies unfortunately he bought so many copies of his own book for friends that when his publishers came it showed a credit in his lavor of just had he typewritten his manuscript the novel would have thrown him into debt and these are but two of a score of instances within my knowledge that I 1 could cite they are sufficient however for budding authors to see visions of fame and fortune between tho lines of their manuscripts to ponder over fame they may got per hap fortune a very small one without cleveland Cleie land areu if taxation without representation is tyrannous abo unborn who will havo to pay principal and interest by taxation the reckless debba now everywhere being con ti acted will have a very practical illustration of it |