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Show Editor's Benefit. KnrK 'twain," at the dinner In honor of his seventieth birthday, advised ad-vised a joung noollst not to shun Judicious self-advertisement. "On one of my first visits to Now York," ho said, "I was t-ken on n sight-seeing tour by n successful Joke-writer. Joke-writer. I learned during this tour bomcthlng about tho way to succeed. "As we redo down Broadway on a car my friend suddenly looked up from the comic paper ho was reading, gao a hearty laugh and then read al md to me a Joke. " 'Isn't that great?' ho' cried. "Oh, hn, ha, ha, ha! Isn't that tho funniest fun-niest Joke ho, ho, ho! you "over horrd?' "Just then we rose to get off. When wo reached tho sidewalk I said to my friend: " 'You, showed mo that Joko before, j on know. It is ono of your own, Isn't It?' "Ho smiled at my puzzled face nnd answered: "'Yes. Hut you didn't notice tho man who sat opposite us, did you? Ho Is tho editor who buys most of my stuff and he doesn't know me personally. person-ally. Seo?'" |