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Show LIKE FINDING WEALTH' The Case with Two Women "Writers-Clearing Up Cash by the Thousands. fWO amiable American Amer-ican women have been making pro-dlgloua pro-dlgloua aums from novels that are not in u c h considered, one way or the other, by snuffy literary critic Fortunately, neither nei-ther of these estimable estim-able women has tvsr known to uy claim to couslnshlp with Literature ot the sort that Is ipelled with a large 1 but they have ipparently given pleasure to a greater lumber ot readeia than any other wo-nen wo-nen aow living In thla country They ire Augusta Evana Wilson and Clara Louise Hurnham. Mra. Wilsons receipts In copyrights In the last quarter century have amounted to more than 1100,000. Her "Vashtl." which followed swift upon the heels of the fabulously successful "Bt, Elmo." sold for IIG.000 spot caah, the publisher afterward restoring copyright copy-right lo the author In addition. "Miss dusty" the nstlves call her In her own beloved Mobile, according to the pretty Southern provincialism. And "Miss Ously" I their Idol and lhilr fetich and their Joy. She Is a dear, refined old lady now, with stately, old world manners, a while rap and an old-time monster brooch that bear her lamented bus-band'a bus-band'a profile In cameo. She offers you a "hlte and sup" always, al-ways, whether at her beautiful colo- MIIB lit IINHAM. nlal home. In faahlonabl Government street. In Mobile, or at her country place of Ashlsnd, tbst tropical paradise para-dise of foliage and I'looni. Mrs. Wilson has been Importuned ot late, by eastern publishers, tn make her own price for a aeries of abort stories. Hut the desr. conservative old lady la obdurate "When one has a-plenty, both of money and of fame," aays ahe, "does one wsnt more'" "At the Mercy of Tiberius," her latest lat-est born, which reaped for her another golden harvest, she deems the best of all her books Assuredly there Is money tn mediocrity medio-crity and popularity In platitudes, since vsrsatlle Mrs. Ilurnham, who can do mny things belter than ahe wrltea, Is digging nuggsta with her pen and finding herself In pre-eminent demand at all the public libraries. No other novelist, statistics show, la ao much read by the youthful public nowadays. She Is the young girl's Idol, "Dear me!" laugha Mr. Ilurnham, "how wealthy I might become If each reader ot my atorlrs dropped a nickel In the Blot tor the benefit of the author!" The auccess of thla woman's books hsa recently re-cently Increased her royalties from 10 per cent to 15 If they are not literature, litera-ture, strictly speaking, and thla, the author herself smilingly acknowledges, they are at least wholesome en 'Ujh, and nobody ts the worse for sr acquaintance ac-quaintance with "De Utlmer," "The Wise Woman," "Miss Archer Archer," or any of the others ot Mrs, Hum-hare's Hum-hare's Innocent brain brood She la the daughter of (leorge F. Itoot of Chicago, now dead, who was the author of "Itally 'Hound tbe Flag, Hoya!" and a host of other popular American sonr Mrs Hurnhsm's summer sum-mer cottsge, The Mooring, Is a gem on lialley Island, Casco Hay, It la her Main nelghbora here who unconsciously unconscious-ly supply the Immensely popular lady with a large proportion of her copy, NEW PEARL FISHERIES FOUND. ) Mule IL.t (Llh.r. Up Tw.aly-lw fetinil. ml fi.iw.. New pearl fields ot great richness bavo been discovered off the coast of New Caledonia on the weat side, according ac-cording tn United Slates Consul Wolt at Noumea, He asy that one abell contained the fabulous number of 251 pearls, and. one little boat of one and one halt tana furnished Isst yesr 22 pounds of pearls. Up to this time the water has not been sounded to a greater great-er depth than six teet acven Inches, but the fisheries are to be further exploited by French and Austrian syndicates. Mr. Wolf says that tho quality of the pearl shells Is remarkably tine, and be urges that Americana profit by the discovery, although haste Is necessary on account of tbe enterprise of foreign Arms. New Caledonia Is an Island lying ly-ing east of Australia. It belong to Franc. |