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Show I TUC DFUADh AF rFIMII IQ 'MUCH MORE PROMPT NOW-THAN EVER BET5Sf I I n I M 1 ff A m 1 3 W 1 . 1 1 I ll I U DR' C00K MAKES A FORTUNE IN "t COUPLE OF MONTHS WRIGHT BROTHERS ALSO GETTING RICH I 1 IIU i m i lit rnl- H I jr $12,500 FOR ONE FLIGHT ROOSEVELT ALSO MAKING BIG MONEY. (Copyright, moo, by John Kifrcth "WntiT" t Copyright. 13U9. John IJlfnlh 11 Wutlcins fit The reward of K "his Is far more HTji prompt tliiin 1 1 ever was liofoic, iiml far Httll more sonorous, us well. K Within a month after his homecoming i, Dr. Cook was reeolvlnsr $3000 a nlsht for Hf i lectures on his polar trip. One lecture HUi Iia:i probahly netted him more than he 1 realized In a half-year previous to h K departure for the Arctic ami he has al- ready realized, on puhlU- appreciation Hl i of his success, more than President ran H will receive for two years of hard work 1, at his trade. Dr Coolc is said to have L lirou in debt when In: returned from the j!1 north, and his house is alleged to have L beep mortaah'Cri to pay for the roller li' expedition that was sent for him. but nl- T I reuilv the sraliliiile of his countrymen 1; has built 1 1 1 1 i a fortune to be written 1 In six Durcs. His reward has been V, Immediate, us was Mr. I'onry's after he h made his "farthest north" reeord In 1 ')(";. 1 ' And It Is food for ptt:nl?m to note how times have hail to hnnpe in order j to hrlns .about sueh a eonditlou of the public mind. Chrlflophi-r Columbus. af- Hl t-r opening the nates of the new world. 'J linallv eame home to die hi snunlor alter H'' a period of shameful nesleot, privation H i and even hunsor. And .lohu f'abot, by W j discovering (he mainland of Xorlh Ani"i- Ht i ir.n. did not sp.'nsh loudly i noush into j antcinortetn fame to have the dates or place of either Ids birth or death reooinl- , 1 ed In history. Then then' was .lolh-t. H who save up our leather of Waters, lie ( had to Hl.niprpl" alone on a. pittance after H ,; bis sroat labors were nwr. whil .Jona- l ' than Carver, who niiloek.'d Canada and I i!ie. regions beyond the Mississippi, sif.lor 1 -vainly trylns l' earn his bread by ped- Hr ollnt; a book deserlblup his exploits, be- Hl 1 came a elerk In a lottery ami finally died : 1n destlTutlon. leaving a family to he j K-sjcui'il by a literary ehriflty. The wrid B I In ihov,c days had little appreciation of i tlif coumpe demanded by such exploits H i' v thousands of miles peopled by liostil? H ( lmliaiis. It was the same story with Hj r:ob'ri i'!ray. who foinivl for iih the Co-In Co-In robin ri'r .and its hayln. Public nojr- H,)j b'--1 left him fo poor thai bis widow had Hj to apiral to eonpre5s for aid. Hut coii- Hl.'! lt.'ss Vims not always onerous hi fueli H.'! tses. When l.leui. William Clark re- H tinned from the expedition wherein he B aiiI Le's opein-d up the entire I .on is I - Hr ana 'pnrehas. JeD'erson promotcil him to lli'iitennnt-coloii'l. but the senal" re- B ' fused to coiillrm him. and he resigned H, from thr army. All of these men have H' eiiJo'ed pohthum.ius fame, but as the j late Speaker Iter,) f.i i.J : H.' Taffy Bolter Than Obituary. "An ouaee or taffy is better than a 1 ton of oliltiiary." j Mot our own K'-ncrutiuii has been ehar- Hljl .'eterl7.il by a srowlnjr penerosllv toward H: .( men who brim; bin k tales of newly found j lauds and of urlisi,.les that they have H luitoi'k'ed I'rein natures slop-hoiiS". Thus Hl as a reward f.ir his Afriean explointlons Ij Ibnry Al. Stanley was showered with all H' sorts of hoinrs vi'i-ylnir from dianiond- Hl' studded snuff Io-k of cold Iv. n by H royallty to the freedom of be eily of H London and from the l.cion of Honor to ' J'hilish knipbthood and fie thanks of our Hr! own eonivps. H'i "is reeelpts irnai .7ames liordon Hen- H, nett. the London TePciMpb and Kin: H' Leopold of Itelhmi for opening up Africa ; u!e undeistoOfl to have been princely. Hh Wrights' Big Enniings. Inventors, too. are ettint; prompter Hl reward than they used to. Ilciv is WII- 1 bur Writhe n-celvin? $ 1 2,-00 for his dar-hi", dar-hi", airship ridi- over Hie Hudson from the Uatlery to Grant's tomb and back. Til's Is more than the. vice president or tb.e secretary of stale yets for a whole year's labor In the shop, but nobody he-urudijes he-urudijes the plucky Wrights their awards Hj of small lorlunes for (lights here and H abroad, which bean to be earned within Hl b-ss than a year after they hud perfected their bipiane. All of this is In sharp contrast Willi the Hj lnaiiuer In which rewards eame to epoeh- Hj , making In venioi-s of pre'lous generations' j Kit'-li, after hnvhic; Invented the world's Hj 1 ins l steamboat -one thxl reularlv car ried jiassenscrs In the eighteenth century cen-tury had to work his way across the walor as a common sailor and llnallj ended his poverty In a la vei n by commlt-tlns commlt-tlns suicide. Kulton, loo. died poor, and Whitney had a hard bcf:lnnlnj; with his cotton sin. ihe original of which, after havliifc been carried olT by thieving rivals, before he had patemed it, was repi induced in-duced hi various Inventions, giving rise to continual infrhmomciu suits that ' vrxe him Tor years. Ami the years or .struggle and hardship which J'!llas I Imvr ) had to endure while ho was sivivlug to i Introduce his sewing iiniehlne so completely com-pletely broke his health that he could never enjoy the honors and money which came to him In later years. ; Some Slow Boginniugs. . IJell. after inventing the telephone, svoured a yood part oi tin- world trying I to work up some jubie appreciation of j his invention. IN- could ilml no pur- chaser for half his lOuiopean riuhts In 1S77. and Chaunc y M. Depew. wncn of- . ferctl a oni'-slxth Inlerest in the eut r j pilse. took Hie Hdvlec of the prsld'-lil of the Western I'nlou Telemaph company-and refused what would today luno amounted to ten thousand times as much or ?HiO,00rt.iiiio. Similarly Cleorgc Wist-iiighoiise Wist-iiighoiise waited for appreciation of hts nlrbiiikes. for the liist-lniln that It was tried on laid stopped so ipilekly that It was wrecked bv the process, but e ee after mechanical success was realized this man "who had saved more" liven than Napoleon lost." received the reltulT from Commodore Vanderbllt: "Tell him I have no ihne to waste on a d d fool ' Tint here conic these "WrlKht brothers bursting Into success as ipilekly as tin v bla::e into glory; and doubtless lhe will die millionaires. Roosevelt's Big Honoraria. Prompter iv-wards aie coming nKo b writei-s not only novelists, but journal- i isis a well, and speakltif: of Journalists I we will commence wllh Mrt. Theodore : ltoosevi'lt. one of the latest recruits of ' Ihe fourth estate. Prior to his leaving the Whit" I louse his sanctum was be-sle:;eii be-sle:;eii b publishi rs. oiMblddhjt; one another an-other for an thing he might put pea to after returning lo private life. One publisher pub-lisher Is alleged lo have offered blin $1011.(100 Hal for a travel book and another an-other $.n.ffnn for a volume on sports and hunting. And finally he Is said lo have contracted with one firm to furnish lSa. -000 words from tin African JimzW for one dollar a word, which ipouns an honorarium hon-orarium eipial to two yea is of his last presidential salary. And In addition to Ibis, he Is to receive SSO.Onf) n yar I'm editorials In a Soy York weekly. Tills amounts to about S.".T per editorial Never before -was there such magic In Hi'- "title of "e-prnsdent." The lii-Mt of Iheni lo earn a good rat - at journalism was Kenjamln Harrison. II i! said, who got sloiio iiplece for the scries of articles. "This Country of Ours " which ran in u note, wi)inan's maqar.liif Mr. Cleveland alo goi hl rates from a weekly journal published by the ..-lni-Philadelphia linn. I '.ill In the old I : ( our White I louse velerans had no smli chances, .lefferson, with nil his masUj of the pep, died .so pixir that his home hud to be sold to pay his debts, v. Idle Ids daughter had to depend for a livll liood on fnuda voted to her and her Ujll- i dren by the slates of North Carolina and Virginia. Then. loo. there was poor Moil . roe! who spent his last days urging thu ' go erniiKiit to )ay his claim for the n turn of expenses which he had Incurred abroad. Uui the government .lid not pa. and .Monroe died without leaving even enough money to bury him. Of course these big rates given to Mr. lioosevclt are Hue to the fact that his pep Is dipped always in the sulphltle and never In the broinldk lluld. And the magazine which Is to pay so generously-for generously-for his editorials will be the exclusive, channel for his views on political, industrial indus-trial and local topics. How Writers' Rates Have Grown. Indei.'d. for any man with something big to say. and with a big way of saying say-ing it. this is the age of generous hoti-oraila. hoti-oraila. That master genius, de Maupassant, Mau-passant, was satlslb-d. lo write for J or 3 cents a word, whereas Contin Doyle now estimates that his last Sherlock Holmes scries has been worth 'l a word to hini. Indeed, to date, Sherlock has put Into his creator s pocket no less than $100. 000, -which Is eighty times as much as Jlenry Esmond was worth to Thackeray. Thack-eray. And on her novels Mrs. Humphrey Ward realised an average of SIO.OOO more per volume than Scott did for his anil I Scott once held the record for "best icllcrs," as also did Charles Dickens. I '.ill. our Winston Churchill from ;t single novel, has realised over 300.000, or more than the prolille and successful Dickens .could earn in six yrhirs when he was at !ihe height of his fame. Milton sold the I copyright of "Paradise Lost." for .", while Tennyson, shortly before his death, received ?100 a line for :i lullaby printed In an American juvenile monthly. Kipling was glad lo sell his best India talus for .-Jnii apiece, when he first came to America, but today our big thirty-live cent magazines pay unknown writers fiom $100 to for five-thousand-word stories. And one of our ton-cent magazines maga-zines is now olferlng 10 cents a word for "the best obtainable stories about prominent promi-nent people, witticisms, i lever verse and very short llctlon." all of which again recalls poor de Maupassant turning out classics :il 2 and J? cents a word. One of our live-cent weeklies today pays 5 cents to the unknown beginner. More for Night Now. The musician, too. Is receiving immediate imme-diate reward for his genius. It is said that Leopold Mozart went breathless when the prodigies, Wolfgang and Nan- nerl, drew 100 guineas at one concert. And h" would doubtless fall lifeless were he to see Paderewsltl receive his regular ."00ft for one performance. And J'ader-ewskl J'ader-ewskl gets this at eighty concerts within four months. No wonder ho can afford his private car. his chef, valet, secretary secre-tary and personal manager. When Frederick Fred-erick the Great wanted to be lavish In his generosity to Ihe noted prima donna. Mara, ht: appointed her court singer at ' ?2'J."0 per year; and of Kntherlne Tofts I the favorite lOngllsh prima donna of the early eighteenth century it wiih written that "her salary was some $?,00" per season, sea-son, over 100 per night J" Her great rival Margherlta de L'lCpino received per season what our great prima donnas now draw for each performance S200O. London Lon-don gasped when Mrs, Ilelllngton was given 5b". 00(1 for one six-month season of seventy-eight performances or what amounted lo $i:ii. per night, or lens than a tenth of the modern diva's price. The whole nusi-al world talked for years over (he SI00O given to Angelica C.'iMalanl for singing "God Save ihe Queen" and "Itulo Mrltannin' at one performance, but our newly rich millionaires now think nothing of paying a grand opera star three or four times that sum for a couple cou-ple of numbers and an encore. Rewards of Legal Genius. Legal and financial genius are also be-Ing be-Ing rewarded as they never -were before William Xehon Cromwell ImIITT received a fee of no ie,; ,,.Sa,,J to Vw' for selling the Pro u- .0& F nele .sam. and JaiwK .o i to have received a cold m' Ia llJj 1 t tllng the suit between a r " for 5 ami I. (. Prick, while ,n , Oirng.' I has been credllcd to V n Arnr amoS t fen for breaking tlie will' ".""'oCuJ' Henry Uradlcy W,m. iL 1 L about to enter upon bin , ,". hf S V offcicd $ 00.000 a vein- Ji. . ',!lv IwJ ?tn talner. Insuring Wtn&9 n l f topoliUin Traction coim.anv " m (if HI hm to this P(Tlodl.' , inw-.r"'1 'S & ons Tees were to he mil ?-ance 5. as u.lght be done flrVrt'4 lJul Mr. foot declined i '? nWv ring to lake eh;incts offr. f tige of a brill J'K Philander K1U1X , 1 , ,ll.nl" rr FM as great a lliiiinchil siur it iS H entered public life. Mltr"l Mt.ea IfU The hlgln-Mt sularv rr . i ' Pulled States H .J ,' u'Z la I 000 per year, dniwn I . u 0 lajfld as general ol "it.a- of TM U ' ST Oil company. nt 1(0 ir4lS 'F, de:,lh I wo years 0 t i e ,,I.J if"' " be ng the hlghest-Nllar .j d'."npW & said lo have r:l,.n , ' " "flttti I glneer. who is now nn ,v; n ""L"? Si President Tafl n he w, k nfa.? 'H Cecil liberies. Sl"' 01 ht J M-nKrn WATin ' |
