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Show A Worthy Desire. An ambitious young Chicagoaii recently re-cently called upon a publisher tf novels in that jc'.ty, to wnom he imparted confidentially con-fidentially the information that he had decided to "write a book." and that he would be pleased to afford the publisher publish-er the chance to bring it out. "May I venture to inquire as to the . nature of thebook yu propose to write?" asked tha publisher, very po- I Utely. "Oh," came in an ofi!h;iiid way from j the aspirant for I'oiih, "I think of do- j ing something on the line of 'Les Mis-crables.' Mis-crables.' only livelier, you know"' Lip-pincott's. Lip-pincott's. x j |