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MANDfACriJRCR Of NUGGET JEWflRV
DEALER IN
AliiS
Hand PaintedlChina
and Cut Glass
A Nil Line of Elgin
and waltham Watches
5 AUTOBIOGRAPHY \
? OF A MANUSCRIPT. !
(Original.]
I was born when my mother was
nineteen years old. Her uncle, a mid
dle aged aiau, bad done something In
a literary way. aud 1 was turned over
to him by my mother's mother to be
looked over. He took me to his study
and sat down with me. Ilrst sharpen
ing Ills jmhicII with which to cut ine In
pieces, for I heard lilm say that my
mother knew nothing about writing
and he supposed "the thing was full
of rhetorical blunders." When he be
gan to read me he Wore a Iwrcd look. I
but he had read but one paragraph
!>efore his expression changed. As he
read on lie forgot who hail written me.
and when he had tiulshed he ex
claimed:
"By thunder!"
Then he called my mother and her
mother Into his study and asked my
Mother:
"Where did you learn to write Eng
lish correctly?"
"At school."
"School be hauged! There's some
thing else here that you didu't learn
at all. It was born lu you. Send your
story out Just as It is. If It Is appre
ciated It will be accepted, but I don't
believe it will be. It will come back
to you and keep coming back."
They took me away, and the mother
said to the daughter: "Your uncle Is
gore Itecause all his own manuscripts
come back to him. Dou't you believe j
lilm. my dear. Your story will be ac
cepted. and you will get a good price j
for It."
The next day I was sent to the Globe
I'ublishliiK company. 1 was turned
over to a young fellow they called a
weeder. He locked over the manu
scripts which came In the morning's
mall anil out of the lot plckcd one. 1
beard hliu mention the author's name.
1 had heard it often before. The rest
of us were put iu envelopes with
printed slips with the editor's name to
them, saying a few very nice things
and thanking our parents for sendlug
us In. Then we were put away for
awhile aud when It was convenient
were sent back to where we came i
from.
When my poor little mother unw by
the hulk of the package that I had
heeii returned to her the tears started
In her eyes. Her uncle snUl: "1 told
you no. 1 don't lieliove I hey read a
line of It. However, I know Simpson
& Co. They've turned down a lot of
my work, hut perlmp* they'll read this
If 1 make a personal request. 1 jet me
have It tomorrow."
The next day he took me to Simpson
& Co. and had a long talk al?>ut me
with the editor, who was very polite
and promised to give me his especial
attention. After ray mother's uncle
had gone away the editor tossed me to ]
a weary looking man sitting nt a desk
covered with manuscripts and said:
"Head that."
It was two weeks before the tired
looking man took rae up iu my turn,
then ran over twenty pages of me in
as many seconds and wrote ou my
wrapper "Declined." And so I was
sent back again to my mother, who
had hoped that her uncle's iwrsonal ef
fort would insure success. She was
nearly as much dlsappoluted as at first.
And so I continued to go from one
publishing house to another without
acceptance. Finally I attracted the at
tention of an intellectual looking edi
tor, who wrote this criticism:
If wo were looking for literature I
would recommend tiie publication of this
book. But us wo nre looklriu for "best
sellers" I would decline It
However, tuy mother got nothing
but the prluted slip when I was re
turned. though It was couched In Just
his polite terms us the first.
Meanwhile a publisher told tuy moth
er that she would lietter write some
thing "startling"? a trifle erotic, he
said. So Innocent was she that she
thought he said erratic. She went to
work aud turned out my brother.
Poor boy! He was deformed In frame
and Intellect from birth. Mother was
very much ashamed of him und
wouldn't acknowledge him by publish
ing hlui under her own name. But he
was published under a now de plume
aud proved a second best seller.
My mother continued to give me all
her affection notwithstanding the fact
that ray brother made so much woney
for her. She was uow deluged with
requests for something from her "gift
ed pen." She sent me out once more,
and I was accepted at once, but she
refused to permit my publication un
der the name which had been append
| ed to my crazy I .??'.her. The publish
ers would i uc me unless she con
sented t > t. lis. They offered her a
large sum v. i'.h that name to me, but
she was <?' .'.urate, and so I was obliged
to remain In obscurity.
Mother would write nothing more,
and at last, uot making any money,
which she needed, she wrote the pub
lisher who had wauted me that he
could have me to publish under her
fictitious name. He wrote her In reply
that the public had forgotten her for
mer boo':, that the character of all
Action had changed nnd thfit If he
were to publish me under any uame
whatever he couldn't sell a thousand
copies. He added. "Your first effort
could only have been sold as by the
author of a 'second best seller.' "
And so my only opportunity passed
without my getting out Into the world.
My uncle, who is now old and philo
sophic, says that these "best sellers"
are a development like "stars" on the
stage. Other books, like other actors,
must remain In obscurity, for the pub
lic can only be attracted by that which
In most prominent.
I wonder If any of them know.
CONSTANCE WILD.
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T VTTTTTtTt VTTTV V'nTT TTTTV"
t How a Fierce American |
? Was Appeased. |
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[Orlslnal.l
America 1* far from Europe, and
the poorer classes kuow very little
about the western continent. When I
was a boy I was one morning at the
Ilolei des luvalides, In Paris, with my
father. He was speaking In Preach
with a pensioner. Presently my father
burst Into a laugh. I asked him what
he was laughlug at. He raid that ho
had told the Prenchman that he was
uu American. "No," replied the old
soldier; "Amerlcaus are all black."
Some years ago au American wild
west show visited Budapest. There
were the usual fusillades, Individual
shootings and stagecoach robberies.
The people who saw them got an idea
that all Amerlcaus shot, aud shot to
kill, ou the slightest provocation. 1
spent a few days at the place soon aft
er the show had passed ou, register
ing from my home, Toledo, O. The
day after my arrival 1 saw some cltl
zeus over the register debating In au
excited fashion about Just where iu
America Toledo was, whether it was
on the Atlantic or Pactfk coast, one
man declaring that It was iu the
Allegheu.v mountains, the region of the
tlercest tribes of cowboys. Suddenly
catching sight of me, they scattered
like a tlock of birds among which a
stone had been thrown.
The same evening I attended u per
formance iu a music hall. A little,
deformed girl, with pale cheeks and
great, flaring black eyes, was selling
programmes. A waiter moving across
the floor with half a dozen glasses of
beer poised on a truy above his head,
not seeing the child, ran her down.
The six glasses of beer went crashing
on the floor, and the waiter fell on the
girl. As she aud he rose in his irrita
tion lie gave her a cuff, saying, "Take
that for getting in my way."
Now, I am a mild mannered, peace
ful mau, nothing of a kulght errant, but
I thought the waiter should be re
proved for glvihg way to his temper
and the little girl given a tip to muko
up for the blow she hod received, so I
said: |
"Walter, .vou had uo business to
strike the child In that manner. The
accident was your fault. You should
have looked about you to see If any
body was in your way."
As I spoke I put iny hand to niv hip
pocket to gft out my porteuionnale.
which I always carry there, to give the
little programme seller a coin.
The noise of the fall had attracted
the attention of every one in the hall.
All eyes were upon the waiter, the girl
and me. As I spoke those farthest
away from me got on chairs to see
what 1 was going to do. I had been
pointed out to many of them as an
American, and as they saw that 1 was
displeased nt the waiter they con
sidered him in Imminent danger. When
1 put my hand to my hip pocket there
was the most remarkable commotion 1
have ever had the honor to occasion.
Indeed, it is the only glittering spot in
my otherwise uneventful life.
There was a wild scramble at the
tables nearest me to get out of the
way. The men knocked over the
chairs, Jumped across tables; the wo
men shrieked; the children (they take
their children to such places abroad)
cried. Those nearest the door blocked
the opeuing in a vain effort to get out
all at ouce. I had my eye on the poor
little programme girl and to prevent
her being trampled upon put an arm
about her to protect her.
The manager came lighting his way
toward me and when he got near
enough shouted to uie: "Do not shoot.
Everything you require shall be done.
What will appease you?"
It suddenly occurred to me to turn
the score to account for the little pro
gramme girl.
"I'm not going to kill any one," I
said, "but I have a suggestion to make.
I.et us take up a collection for this
poor little girl, who received a cuff she
did not deserve."
1 bad my portemonuale, not n revolv
er, in my hand and, opening it. took out
a bill, dropped It lu my hat and gave it
to the manager. He stood ou a chair
ami as soon as he could make himself
heard said:
"The American will not tight If we
take up a collection for the programme
girl. I.et us ransom Carl Steffens, the
waiter who offended him. Carl Is a
poor man and has a large f" :lllly."
With that he went aro.u 1 with ?Y?
hat. Every person In the assembly
considered that he wis bound t > < >
gorge as lie bad seen siagcvoaeh |
sengors disgorge to road r" ills hi 111 ?
wild west show. When the h it came
back It was brimful of l.ilU and coin'
The manager baudc.! It to me, and.
pouring its contents Into my handker
chief, I handed It to the child. The
manager got ou a table aud cried:
"The American Is appeased. Now
go quietly to your homes."
The people shrank away? that Is,
those who were left, for a goodly num
ber had departed by the door and win
dows. Some who had to pass me
looked at me with timid curiosity aud
when they were obliged to present
their backs to me bit. xlcd out as If
afraid to trust me behlud them. When
they bad all gone except the landlord
he bowed very low and said to me:
"When uiay I reassure our people
that your excellency has departed?"
To assume such a commanding posi
tion by striking a people with terror
even in so ridiculous a manner has Its
effect. I confess myself affected by It
I could fancy how It was that even the
great Na|>oleoii got the big head.
"Vou may tell them." I said "that I
am much pleased with their generosity.
I leave by the train tonight."
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