| Show EDGAR METHODS the famous Nolie list tells ilow how lie he writes ti rilas his docks books HE SAYS THE literature OF TODAY TO DAY la Is a in which SuCco succotash eisold Is sold instead extracting romances prom real life when lie ho took ills his characters character prout from real heal lire lie ho was wan criticized but tho the books sold when lie ho resorted to the imagination ImaKi nallon ills his characters were praised hat but tho thet public licit left ills his books book alone the reflections ofa of a bright author 1 by br the dole bot riess pins I 1 new york I 1 jan 12 there was an epoch to la literature when lion fiction was a battlefield today to day it is a restaurant tho the novelist does not cot light fight bo be caters tho the guests are cl arians instead ol of meat there Is is succotash canned at that it Is elie cheap up easy of digestion and as easily prepared thoro there Js 13 no aftertaste fit at A feeling of slight distension alich presently disappears in view of this condition of 0 affairs tho the present writer a lew few years bince prepared s manuscript which ho he considered ab absolutely innocuous it was a simple story familiar to many new mcw yorkers ot of a gentleman who married and who he fancy lag mitt flier rightly or wrongly DO one ever know knew that tile hio lady aho he had dono done him the honor boiler to take his name naino was looking lacking in certain en lain put her out of tho the way in such a manner that her death was attributed tri IrI buted to lo accident tile tho facts in tile case mere property pro perky that for or years had ad becore boon retailed not behind tho the fan fail but before it once to in print however a prominent critic declared that tho the w alter as cm ious of catalfu asa matter of fact tho the writer was I 1 not out culous too ot of catillo catallo mandell Monds at tl all M wendes 18 li a goat leman who ho has over oscr thing fhlug in his favor except talent talen t only oaly a critic could be envious of that had it been any one else passe padre encore but 31 andos fit addition to his other ad addan L a Is a 1 poet m lose muse Is oleph SUL nulls I 1 s she present writer was therefore A I 1 ITTLE ITTIE at the charko charge lie he read his hii own story SO emeral oral of M H Mon mandess dess as well and the more lie road tho the wore dioro his wonder grow it was waa his pilvi lege to meet aho prominent critic and to discover that thai that gent lemans knowledge of 0 french was confined to 10 a course of six le ie sous sells ebli li lio lie had in lis bis childhood from a german thus comforted tile writer took heart again and produced 0 second wacil script as simple as tile first in this instance lie he took another situation front roni real life ono eliab had license been so gossiped overt over thal bal ho he mou wondered dered it had not net found lia its way may into print before tho L story that ofa of ft young man who mho bucanig engaged to a girl who was in 10 loio with till a married mao man A misadventure occurred As a result AMUR the man s eyes acro w opened c ditc itc 1 is s now insane lit in apt lpt ce slew the t h A manuscript c r he h slow ills his rival no ko one it seemed to tile tho writer could object to an thing in that I 1 i morality mas has upheld end and immorality punished and set et every cry out one did object to it een to the editor of the magai lne for which etwas ft was mr britten itten and tho the who had disen discussed ased li it again slid and again the writer r was as Doup nonplussed nonplus lowd sed it occurred to him that tile the dramas ot of real liiv life imo late either no place in print or elso else that place must be 1 to the columns of 0 a newspaper at tho the same time ho he could not but wonder m hy fly the press was w as permitted to give the bald facts of some scandal which m aich he was reproved tor for reproving then it was that ho he remembered tho the vegetarian ile ho determined mined to havo have nothing more to do 1 with ith tile tho actual and to deal exclusively with romance hy by nay may ol of a good beginning lie bo manufactured a plot tho the story of a oung woman 1 who he married suspected her husband left him reviled blui aud abo would cold have died had not e probing turned out in the last chapter of the novel as it never does in the last ladt chapter of lifo ito throughout the entire work mork there was only oye ONE suggestive WORD jt ft was in ill greek spelled i wrong at that in brief there was nothing in I 1 it at w aleh a nursery governess could cavil presently it was published its predecessors decess ors had bad been abused it nas mas sell d but its predecessors had sold it did not the perplexity of the writer increased praise to an author is believed to bo be very grateful As a rule on oil cannot stick it on thick enough and to the present wis was riot not only grateful it had the allurement of a new DOW sensation but to be praised and to bo be let alone li is different guitar the ills perplexity remained bained at this juncture that sagacious friend vt whom here wo no all of us pos possess bess suggested the clianna OIL ofa journey to eliat fabulous land which aich wo we have agreed to do as ills justo juste fillou that country whore where there Is neither one tiling thing nor the other and yet a little of 0 each fortified by the suggestion tile the writer started out for a new departure lie ile tool took certain amount of life ito and a certain amount of romance and produced a manuscript lit in which m I 1 ich lie thought that tho the complex an and d the simple thu the real and the were as evenly distributed as tile liqueurs lique urs in a ca cafe to it was WB a story atory of a clef clergyman gyman who fell lu ill love with his sister bister inlaw i ln law and who waso was obliged bilged to solemnize ionize her marriage to ills his rival rial in view of the like juste milieu it was not an easy story to tell lell the writer however did lis his beat b cat ilo ho intercalated an all entirely irrelevant ant episode ho made inalle tile alio heroine perfectly to her sisters hu husband shand the m alte ire c in her affection tor for both a and d alter after the wedding nodding lio lie left the clio clergyman borrill ed at himself the praise which bad le warded the writers previous attempt made lit in this instance its 13 absence fell fel there theiu was a chorus indeed but it was as A cukuls OF 01 ABUSE the secret ot of selling and of plem pleasing ilig was mail As ai as before every imaginable effort had been madu made to attract the vegetarian ot still lie stood aloof of the A rikars cutlets ho he would I 1 hue lave none DOUG stick slick to your succotash succo tili then was clio only answer left I 1 tho ettli it lima tile the writer communed will himself hiro belf was conscious that ho he had not written a sen fen lenco which a blind man could construe I 1 as s an invocation to vice he be ws WAS conscious it us it eliat tat in so far as a lie be was waft able ho be hi licul ul tried to instill leoso lesson a of charity I 1 y and abnegation of belt elf which bonu the woof ot of ethics ancho and lie was ulso chat balb ono of this his characters pate fate either cither actual or suggested had overtaken and felled lie ho was aware that conscience Is more potent than tile gibbet slid and lit in ilio clio subtleties rs of some ono one or another of thoe alio llio o crimes which tho the law cannot reach it was mas it at conscience ho pointed ills his pen etwas it was evident Lo boeer hoft cor eer that ile he had failed balled and ll it occurred to lim him that tho the failure might bo be lie due to the iho fact that t the bo logic of his bis ethics was left moro more to tile imagination agi nation than to tile tho last pao page it was suggested riot not hammered in 11 alth ith tho the idea of making ft a further attempt and this time of wielding folding A tho the hammer ha miner he took look one of those fa ing scoundrels whom wo no have all encountered and put him in an such stich a position that ho was driven to suicide by the force of hison his own misdeeds tho the title of I 1 that hat novel was the paco pace crillies that kills thero there mere critics witty enough to say that it MIM killed tho the publisher anti and tho the writer too loo tho the only thing it killed was tile the writers desire to caberto cater to tho the ege it to him film then as aa it has seemed to him since that a writer who ills pon pen w rites riles M hat lie he must and not what lie ile might this idea it ft may inay be Is not ono which public opinion indorses endorses indor ses eul but public opinion lias has been known to veer lie be sides there ila has been and presumably alas ho such a number of people who prefer to bo be wrong lit in a rlyn better belief than not to hat haeft e it at al all that it Is a wonder monitor galileo copernicus aiding lid did not set feel hole bilious mail mad etan SALTUS n 4 4 ow 46 jr v 1 6 il K H JONES PK TO TUC I 1 ilton KOM ARKANSAS tho the election of a president of tho the senate slid speaker of tho the lu lit the arandas aransas ar ansas KJ K jonos couo fore foreshadows shadows bildt lie roans reelect cl colon con to the united states canuto for u tore to re oi which mill vi lit lic iIii march 4 11 james K jonos jones ot of IN ark was van here iu in marshall coutil all ibor ile iio roi ret elved it education uni aj us a private 1103 ing tho the into gnp I 1 0 on s k the losing side 1101 on est lilt 1118 after the cluse of tile war until 1873 whua lie he common LJ ed tile practice nl luw vua a of abo alaio of arlt in I 1 aru olid aid was vas A member of 0 tile thu baulo when the con eatlo of was called WAN wall elected under the new and d lu in was elected vi of tile benatis was to the forty seventh Iun cue pro grels anti was rc elected to the ihu forty and I 1 artir bialis congress wits clotted to the united scotto ona teas m a and took lit lilt ca march 4 senator donator jones Is a 11 re tIrina anti studious BLud luuK his manners are grave und tied dival fied but withal but gentle Plea pleasing slug lie ho in ill mure inure than bast six ocl feea in stature |
