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Show as well as literary ability and personal beauty. Miss Bislund is a Mississippi girl, who entered journalism in New York three i years ago. She contributed to The Cos- j inopolitan regularly. When it was an- j nounced that Nellie Bly was to be sent i around the world to beat the record of j "Phileas Fogg," the managers of the ' magazine sent for Miss Bisiand, and she undertook to start in a contrary direction in a race with Nellie lily six hours later. Then sho went to pack a small traveling bag for the journey, but amid all the hurry of preparation she found time to go to her lawyers and have an agreement drawn whereby The Cosmopolitan engaged en-gaged her services on salary for two years. When tho charming young woman reached the office to receive her final in- ! strnctions, she smilingly unfolded the agreement and it was signed. Under it she still draws lit r salary. Miss Bly bad ; no such foresight. She had no sooner j returned to New York than she quar- I ruled with The World, and her services ' wi-re dispensed with by that paper. Miss Bislaud lost the race, but she, gained tho greater material advantages from it because; be-cause; sho had a talent for business. Philadelphia Times. Miss lllsliuid' llusiness Tactics. All clever women do not possess similar simi-lar capacity for business, a fact which is conspicuously illustrated in the cases of Mi.s Elizabeth Bislund and Miss Nellie Bly. the rival globe trotters. Miss Bly won tho race around the world by three days, but she hrvs sunk into obscurity, Hiid her name, which was on everybody's lips a year ago, is now only tradition. On the other haul, Miss Bisiand is still n favorite contributor to The Cosmopolitan, Cosmopol-itan, from which she is drawing so lil- ral a Hilary that she is able to live in London. Aud ii is iu a great measure because Miss Bisiand has business talent a ' ; ' ' ' " ' ! - |