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Show H Ware and Clipping Bureau. H Washington, Juno 10. Pension Commissioner Ware H has reached the conclusion that lucre are different m forms of pxiblicity and that which is attained by B reason of political prominence is, in his case at H least, much more expensive than when due entirely H to merit. Hj A number of years ago Mr. Ware m ulestly put out M a volume of poems under the nom de piume of "Iron-H "Iron-H quill." Desiring to know something of how the R literary lights and the world in general regarded his jH modest effort, Mr. Ware enlisted the services of a jH news-clipping agency, which was to furnish him with IH clippings where reference was made to him or his H poems under the nom de plume of "Ironquill." B He received a few hundred clippings of one charts char-ts actor or another, and then there was a lapse. As j time wore on, Mr. Ware forgot altogether the ex-f ex-f istenco of the clipping agency, but ho was forcibly H reminded of it soon after his appointment as pen-H pen-H sion commissioner. BH When the appointment was announced all the M newspaper correspondents began searching the records H to find out who Mr. Ware was, and on learning that H he was a poet and had written under the name of m 'Ironquill," they seized upon this fact and exploited M it thoroughly in the newspapers. The appointment g was a godsend to the newspaper agency, for posted l in a conspicuous place before the oyes of the readers connected with the agency and employed to do the clipping was a card notifying them to look for items concerning "Ironquill." Thousand sof them appeared, and, according to the report, the agency had to increase its force in order to handle them. When it had collected a few thousand thous-and it sent them to Mr. Ware, followed by a few more thousand the next day, and other thousands, with the result that Mr. Ware has been paying from $50 to $200 a week for these clippings. While he may have beqn pleased with the first batch, as an evidence of his popularity and the celebrity cele-brity of his poetical nom de plume, Mr. Ware soon saw that he was threatened with bankruptcy unless a sudden stop was put to the inundation of clippings; and he hastened to notify the agency that he no longer took any interest in what the newspapers said of "Ironquill" and his poems. |