Show THE YOUNG AUTHOR some further account of his interesting experiences for six months said the struggling young author 1 l had been sending out manuscripts to the publishers only to have returned in all that time I 1 had never a line accepted some of them were returned as it seemed to me with precipitancy I 1 would send them out one day and get them back the next it seemed as though they wanted not only to return the manuscripts but to get them out of the way as speedily as possible and then there were some that were kept so long that I 1 built hopes of their acceptance and when finally they did come back I 1 fancied that they had been kept for politeness sake so that I 1 should not be pained by their too hasty rejection though sometimes I 1 fancied that they were kept so long so as to stave off as far as possible the coining of the next manuscript which they must have come to know was inevitable for I 1 came to know familiarly famil arly the envelopes of the various publishing houses to which I 1 sent and when I 1 got them I 1 need to open them at once to know what they contained when I 1 did open them there was revealed the manuscript and printed letter of declination peculiar to each bousu housu some as I 1 have stated before in ing upon this subject in one form some in another some brief some longer all polite some printed in ink of one color some in ink of another calor the distinctive features of the several lettera I 1 came to know by heart I 1 nead to read them I 1 anybody had made a charge in his form I 1 should have known it at a glance I 1 came across once in a ae of crackers a packing label doan in one corner of which printed in fine type was a memorandum of the order given to the printer at a certain date for labels of that particular kind and abo number was I 1 wondered if taj publishers ordered as many letters of declination as that at a time and I 1 thought they must or mere two weeks ago however from a most unexpected source I 1 received with a manuscript returned not tho usual familiar printed form but a most courteous letter saying that the editor had read with enjoyment tho manuscript I 1 had sent and that ho returned it with regret but that taking all into account it was not found exactly available A week later from another unexpected quarter I 1 received a letter of similar tenor and of equal courtesy for six months the darkness had been unbroken but in these letters I 1 aea the glimmering of my literary dawn one swallow does not make spring but one swallow of one minute noih cress writers en route to st louis washington jane 8 the washington of the principal daily papers throughout the country left washington tor the republican convention this afternoon at 4 and are scheduled to arrive at st louis tomorrow evening at 7 they travel luxuriously oa a special train of pull man cars through tho courtesy of tha pennsylvania railway about a hundred were in the party delayed by the continuance ti nuance of congress a contingent of the leading correspondents including the convention staff of tho united press will leave here on wednesday afternoon via the chesapeake ohio and reach st louis on friday both parties will return together after the convention |