HOOD IUYER r.T.v THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1912
1 J r- r- n 1 1 i m t r w w - i i i
A $2,000
TEMPTATION
Bj M QUAD
Copyright, 191!, by Aoritl Lit
erary hi
It van t!d of the town of ToinjUiin
Tllle tbat It Coutuimt! mure hoiie-t.
truthful men than su? othor town of
lta nlie la the atat. Among oth.-r In
cltleutg related JiroV the ilniiu it
was told tl'ht a men-haul ho bail bttn
paid 3 oeuts too niitfb by a oMomer
IItIdk twenty-fire miles away tiheil
man tu drive the dlHtaiu e ami bm-lt to
baud over the jiennies.
Again, a imx-er who had warrant"'
pound of eoffee to be M'hIi.i f.mil
out that it wan only Itio and salved his
ooriHrleiice by returning the money and
pound of tea besides.
The stranger bo drojijwd quietly
Into Touipkiiiavllle one dny and recln
tered at the tavern n Henry liinch
a about forty years old, lie bad a
vlr.nr,., ... .. n-OH lili.l t.llt U l.lit'Midt
notniatwouldhaves.Vt.lmtbewusa!"' " m""
cyni.-. The day aft.r hi arrival he j -.- of .be (no bolns : In close Pt w
called at the olli.-e of the Weekly lie- Unit, to the captain a .. IU. e I h a one
corder and took (he brciith away from
the editor by making bla (asli down
price for a full page alive: t -m-uiciiI.
The thing wan unprc -dented. It was
too treiiiendoua to I Aiillowed under
live minutes.
There wasn't a great deal to that ad.
when It appeared. It waa headed 'T'o j Wo variety, are rcmiereu am. ...u,c
Thousnn.1 Jiollars For home tine." and cure by steel lumps covering the key
It asked people to call on Mr. Peach and holes, and tliey are provided with man
i, il tnf,,!.,,,,!!,,!! and bear Ulve padlocks The strong rooma. be
away the money. Vou can wager that
they began calling without delay. To
all, and It took day to get to the last
one, the advertiser explained:
"Seven years ago I had to pass
through thU town on my way to Ilills
boro. I was driving a borne and bug
gy, and Just In front of jour town hull
one of the hind wheels of the vehicle
began to wabble. The nut had worked
off the axle, aud the wheel was about
to roil away and cause an accident, in
which I wight have lout my life. At
the critical moment a man .stopped me
and pointed to the wheel.
"I was In dhe haste to reach Hie bed
Ide of my dying mother, and 1 don't
rememlier that I even thanked the
good man. I ran back, found the nut
In the duat and, clapping It ou the axle,
I aped away. 1 was In time to see my
dear mother breathe her hint. Then 1
bad to go to South Africa and Austra
lia on bualncHs aud have beeu back only
a few days. I have felt all along that
the man who notified me of my wab
bling wheel ought to be rewarded, and
I am here to do It. I want to find him
aud band him ifJ.OiHi."
The first man to hear the story was
that Bume grocer who had acted so
square about the roffee. He was fat
aud excitable, and when the alory had
been told ho was breathing like a wind
broken horse.
"Seven years ago, was ItV" be naked.
"Seveu to a day,"
"Let'a see? l.et'a see? Ah, yes, 1
remember. Seveu years ago today as
1 wna piittalug the towu hull a tuau
came along In a buggy. Whatever
made me look at the hind wheels I
can't day, but I noticed that"
"What time In the day was this?"
Interrupted Mr. Bench.
"What time? Urn! Let's aeet My
watch had run down the nlghl before,
but I thluk It wan about 10 o'clock."
"Then It was aome oilier man. I
passed through here at 4 o'clock in the
afternoon!"
Mr. Kennedy, the undertaker, came
neit. He listened with bated breath
to the Btoiy as told the grocer and then
replied;
"It Is cmlou bow a few words will
recall a forgotten liiitdenl to yon. Sev
en years ago today 1 wan standing In
front of the town hall when a Mr
Johnson asked me If I had heard that
old Mrs. Ilaney was sick and like to
die. That makes me sure of the date."
"Of course."
"Mr. Johnson hud passed ou when 1
aw a man In a buggy coming at a fast
clip. As be was about to pass me I
law that one of the bind wheels was
Wabbling."
"And you held up your hand ami
railed out?" maid Mr. lteacli.
"1 must have done so."
"It looks as If the J'.'.diKl was yours,
hut a question or two. At what hour
lu the day was that ?"
"l.eiume tliluk a minute. What hour?
What hour? Well, sir, as near as I
ran put It, It was about half past it lu
the afternoon. Yes, 1 nui sure It was,"
"Hut I was driving through your
town at i) o'clock In the morning, so
It couldn't have been you. There must
have been two of us wllh wabbly hind
wheels."
The undertaker meekly retired, but
It was nfierward said that he went
llome and kicked Ids dog and Jawed his
wife.
Tbat Investigation lasted about two
weeks, and it used up almost every
tuau In the town. Kveti n tnlul-tcr and
tlders ami deacons called. None of
llieui came light out and atllriucd that
he saw the wabbly wheel, but all eon-
tended that It was very likely they
were passing the towu hall at the hour j
named. If they were passing and If
thev saw the wheel, why, of course,
they called the driver's attention to it.
Among (he applicants for the reward
Sere ten women. F.ach one of them
as sure of the wheel and the wabble
jmlil Mr. Beach gave the hour as 11
'clook at night. When he had closed
ap his case lie went back to the editor,
who had not U-en on the smt when
the wheel wabbled, and paid blm $40
tor a full page nd. This time It read:
"Toniplnksville has a population of
l,4S0. There are ,r:t2 liars and dlshou
st men and women among them."
And then lie paid his bill and mov
hi on.
Sound Roatons.
"You seem to tie able to draw a
great deal of Interest from that gen
tleman." "Of course I do He's my principal."
Baltimore American.
Research.
BUI Have yon done any research
work? Jill-Have I? Well, say. I've
looked for this same collar button I'm
wearing now at least tlfty times.
Tonkers Statesman.
Order Is man' greatest need and bil
true well bt lng. Amlel.
GOLD ON A BIG SHIP
How Bullion In Transit Is Guard
I cd on an Ocean Liner.
LOCKED IN ROOMS OF STEEL
Afur tht Trmur la Safaly Stod
ay Th.ra la Litti Otngtr of lta
B,nt Stolon During tho Voyago.
Shipping nd Chocking tho Koyi.
The iiiiinnil aa-sumplion would be
that lu Hie aafeguardMis of the Heas
ure wUI'h the varioua cotintrh are
constantly teiidiug one nu.ither by the
ibig ran lluors there would tie re
quired the vigilance 01 u.ih.y .-.
This, however. Is not gwieriiiy the
iase. fliue. ou e the gold la aioieu I
swav In the room m't opart for that I
niirncise on the big ship and the vei
gel Is well out at iea, no armed guards i
are rieei-Hsary.
Taking the ppeclfl.: rase of one liner ;
Bailing under the ItriiHi flag, we iind i
. . . ... .1. ..1 t ..I I.AFiill
i-wmpaniiieni uas uo uouoi surar.u.
! gold enough to pay the cjst of the liner
'uii.io ''i''" ever. The walls, the riif
land the celling are lined with two Inch
ateel plate, anil the mom coiilalua notti
ilug In the way of tllluiea save stielv
line, 'i'he loiks. wlil. li nie of the dou
lug In I lie most frequented portion oi
the vessel, where persons are passing
them at all hours of the day and night,
thua receive the best protection, after
all. There are two sets of keys, one
of which is retained by the agent In
charge of Hie consignment of gold and
the other of which remains with the
c plain.
In the case of the lirltlsb. vessel men
tlotied there Is another and larger spe
cie room, situated next to the provi
lon department. This Is about twelve
feet In length 1J foir ,n width It
frequently happen that bolb strong
rooms are filled to their utmost enpaci
ty, and ou one occasion this liner car
rled some foO.OOO.tXH) In gold bullion
packed in small kegs bound with steel
hoops.
Gold usually la brought to the vessel
on which it Is to be shipped the day
before tho date of Mailing, and It Is
stored away carefully before passen
gers embark. It arrives at the pier In
ordinary trucks under the guard of
armed men. The customary method
of getting the gold on board Is to haul
the kegs up u Inclined chute to the
deck by means of a hoisting engine.
but this method la not followed In
variably. Sometimes each keg Is
placed In a allng and carried on board
bv men detailed for this service.
The receipt given by the steamship
company sets forth that bo many kegs
have been received for shipment, not
for any stated amount of gold to the
value of so much. The kegs bear the
government seal In many Instances,
and In atich cases, when they have
been safely put In the strong room, the
Iron doors thereof are sealed with gov
ernment wax, the Impression being
broken only when the olllclal ou the
other side comes to receive the gold.
The kegs are checked thrice when
they are taken from the trucks, when
they reach the gangway and when !
they are placed In the strong room.
Although no armed guard stands by
the strong room, two men watch the
room constantly so loig as the ship Is
In sight of land As a matter of fact,
there Is Utile danger of nnj one steal
ing gold In transit on a ship It would
he necessary thai he should shoulder
a keg weighing some -W pounds nun
vanish with It without being seeu
Masters of vessels declare gold Is the
safest cargo of any to hum! la.
The total weight of one consignment
of gold shipped by the liiitlsh vessel
In question amounted to something
like Uii.000 pounds, or jixteen tous, and
the freight charges amounted to $12,
(HK, or, roughly speaking, one-eight n
of 1 per cent Specie thus shipped la
Insured at Us full value. New York
I 'l ess.
Mark Twain's Profanity.
William Peiin lloweils read the "Tom
Sawyer" manuscript and thought It
the best story he had ever read, Clem
ens consulted hint regarding the use
j of a certain vigorous expletive. How
ells advised that It be cut out Clem
ens wrote back:
Mrs. Clemens received the mall this
morning, and the next minute she lit
Into the study w ith danger tn her eyes
and (ids demand ou her tongue: "Where
Is the profanity Mr lloweils speaks
of?" Then I had to miserably confess
that I had left It out w hen reading the
i MS. to her Nothing but almost In
spired lying got me out of this scrape
' Willi my scalp, hoes your wife give
i you rats like that wlieu you go a Utile
I one KiiledJ-thirper's.
!
Odorloti.
"Now, children," said the teacher,
"who can tell me what the word 'odor
less' means?"
lllle Jones was sure he knew
"Well, Willie, what docs It mean?"
"Odorless means without a scent,"
he piped.
liignt. miw wno can give a sen
fence using the word correctly?" con
tinned the teacher "You may answer.
Jliuinie."
"lietise, ma'am, when yon are odor
less you cannot ride tn the trolley
nil's. Youth's Companion
i! Ability doth hit (he murk where pre-
'sumption overshoot eth and dltllden- e
,! fallelh short Cusa.
Ancient Dresi Still Worn,
In the little town of Muustedel, In
Bavaria, there exists one of the most
curious charitable foundations In the
world. One of the burghers. Christo
pher Wanner, died In 1451 and left his
fortune for the establishment of s
home for aged poor. He attache!, how
ever, the condition that every old tuau
who was taken in should wear his
beard aud the same cut of clothes and
cap as he himself used to wear; con
sequently the ancient pensioner are
still to be seen wandering about the
streets of Munsledel in the costumes of
the fifteenth century.
TK Stra n, tha Pull, th Pounding and
Grinding Thay Endura.
I?av you au IoVh of the strain to
nbi. h a te ! rail 1 (HibJecteJ todaj?
I.i u iotiidr one for oiuiuent In
the tine of ha greniext lortiinj ami
see. " be i.iiiii oii liall express la coiil
In it 1 drawn by l wo engine. The
argeit weili '"" "enty-
at-veii ton of the weight are carried
on the Mi driving R heels, which
meant almool tblii.to Ion to wheel
Thirteen ton of weight uim.ii each
wheel: 'it"'! mean thirteen t.ius of
weight In.i.ln-'lng f"r ""'
Uju.n a rail amfa-e .-rli:im no more
than an In' h inre anl then movlug
frr.I all the time, a siieresslon or
nliliKng blotva from a thirteen ton
hammer
If i he ti iln I going thirty mile
an hour an Imaginary square Inch
h., hut one flie hundred ami twenty-
,.(,,, ,nrt f a neeoml In wlm-D to
, , , )tip ,nw wince under It. dls-
1H,,, t.rrj,le foree f It througtf
,(s ri&sti,. leniotif to the surrounding
muss of Hie rail. Hwe lt'lf to help
.livtril'Ute "tresses that are U-litS net
np on a,jH( ,nt surfaces and ti:ns-
i"ing baek and forth in an on or
wavs through the content of the ran
and then almost Instatilly lift Its de
voted head to receive the blow of the
next driving wheel. If Hie train Is
going sixty miles an hour Instead of
thirty this all has to be received,
wllhslood ami passed on tn one ten-
hundred find fifty sixth P't of a sec
ond. And yet this isn't nil that Is happen
ing to the nerves of the mil. This Is
only taking account of the compres
sion strains. There Is another set of
strains, for these big driving wheels
are pulling the train. They have
caught hold of the rails Just as your
hands grip the rope in a tng-of war,
and they take a fresh hold every frac
tion of a second. The tendency Is to
pull Hie top or head off the rail, to pull
it all to piece. It Is the business of
the rail to slick together, bead and
web and flange. In every single and
separate molecule with all the teuaclty
of w hich steel Is callable.
Hut we have stated only one half the
tension strain. This strain Is revers
ing all the time, for while the huge
drivers are pulling one part of the
rail toward them they are pushing
another part away from them. This
plucking and spurning, hauling and
kicking, tenslou and compression go
on continuously. Complete reversing
from compression to tension or back
again takes place with every half turn
of a driving wheel and at a frightfully
rapid rate. The marvel is that the
rail Is not ground to powderMetro
politan Magazine.
Tho Explanation. i
Robert Henri, the artist, said In New
Yolk of a bogus "old master:"
"Some of these experts must be very
Ignorant, Judging from the facility
with which they are duped. They must
be ready to swallow anything. It's like
the Velasquez story.
"An auctioneer, you know, put up
the picture, saying:
" 'Here we are. Indies and gentlemen
this exquisite Velasquez "Battle of
Waterloo." What am 1 bid? One
million nine hundred thousand'-
"But,' Interrupted an expert In a
puzzled voice-'but I thought Velas
quez died before the battle of Water
loo ?'
"'So he did, sir," explained the aue-
tioner. 'so he did. but this, you see, is
one of dear old Velly's posthumous
works.' "New York Tribune.
"Barber's Music."
Barbers Ui the old days might well
charge heavily, for theirs must have
been a nerve racking existence. Wh
ets were provided Instead of newspa
pers, and customers used 10 strum ou
these while waiting for a vacant chair.
Dekker, writing early in the seven
teeuth century, refers to "a barber's
cittern for every man to piny on." The
term "barber's music" was a common
one In the days of l'epys, who on .lune
B, liiilo, records, "After supper my
lord called for the lieutenant's cittern.
and with two candlesticks, with money
In them for symliulls, we made bar
ber's music, with which my lord was
very well pleased."-London Standard.
Curt and Conclso.
A certain surly old Yankee who runs
a small summer hotel on the Massachu
setts coast once received a rambling
letter from a prospective uuest. who
wrote to engage "two large, sunny
rooms overlooking the ocean and con
necting with private bath." One may
Imagine the lady's surprise at getting
j the following curt reply: "Hear Mad
ain-All rooms face the ocean, and
that's your Imth." I.lppincott's.
FAR DISTANT URANUS.
Oddities Visit to This Gigantio
Planet Would Onclose.
If Uranus, which li a huh of about
the t,ivih magnitude, were a planet
like those llllle ones called asteroids,
which are being discovered by Hie
dozen every year, it could not have
much claim upon popular attention,
but Uranus Is really a gigantic world,
more than sixty times as large as ours
Its vast distance, about l.VOO.uOO.ixiO
miles from the earth. Is what causes
It to look so small.
Uranus has four moons, which re
volve backward lu their orbits-that is
to say, they revolve from east to west
around Uranus, while Uranus goes,
like all the other planets, from west to
east around the sun. It Is believed
that Uranus rotates backward on Its
axis also Moreover, the n.vis of that
great, strange globe Ilea In such a di
rection that lu the course of Its voar,
which Is equal to eighty four of our
years, the sun shines almost perpen
dicularly first upon one pole and then
npon the other
Measured by our time standard,
there are forty years of constant dsy
light, followed by forty years of n'a.
broken ulght, around the poles of
Cranus, and the sun rises In the west
and sets lu the east there, but the sun
looks very small wheu viewed from
Cranns -only one four hundredth a
large as It appears to us Still It sheds
upon that planet l.fxM times as much
light as the full moon sends to the
earth, so that daylight upon Cranus.
while faint compared with the blaze of
a terrestrial noonday, Is nevertheless
a very respectable kind of Ulumlua-Hon.
MY OTHER
SELF
By DONA1J5 CHAMBERUN
My wife h.,i .miuissioued me to call
t Hyde's for her Jewels that bad been
left there for resetting and other alter
ations and brluj them to her when 1
houhl leave thocliy to Join her at our
country pla, e I'ssmuK ll.vue lew
lays before I s r,aJ 10 ',t', 1
thought of the J"!s- ' allt'(1 tor them
and fsik them b.u) There Is no safe
lu iu bouse, and I was at a loss what
to do with them tint" my departure.
My wife has s roiuaii who has been
with her a great uiu' J"1""- she wo
and is her uid," but if she Is to be
called by sin h a name now she Is sure
ly an "old maid.". I m vrJ fa'ess,
and I knew that m) wife placed im
pihlt trust iu rboebe. I therefore
gave her the jeels aud told her to
take care of tiiein until I called for
them.
The next day, returning from tny of
fice, as was my custom, about half an
hour before dinner ou pal"K the din
ing room I saw that dinner was al
ready served and man was sitting at
my place at the table. Then I received
the shock of my life. He turned his
fnee toward me, ind I saw Great
heavens! I saw myself!
I had uo more doubt that I bad re
ceived one of those brain shocks the
doctors call amnesia or some more nu-prouoiiiK-able
pame tban that I am
telling you this mry. I clutched at
the wall for mpport. My legs were
giving way beneath me. Then, fear
ing to faint, I grasped at consciousness
aud succeeded lu holding on to It.
I-that I which was sitting in the
chair looking at me-was dressed ex
actly the same as the 1 standing In the
hall. The most remarkable thing about
the matter was that be seemed as
much stricken with surprise and terror
as I. He trembled like a leaf. My
colored butler Joe, who was carrying
out a disli to the kitchen, turned, stop
peil short and. stared at both me and
my other self. Phoebe, who was up
stairs, hearing the front door open and
shut, came to the landing and, seeing
that I had Just eutered the house, ran
down to the lower hall where I was
standing, exclaiming:
For heaven's sake! 1 thought you
were in the dining rooiu.
My double, sitting at table with a
small cup of coffee before him, indi
cating that he was at the end of his
dinner, spoke first and to Phoebe.
'lk you see anything strange?" he
asked.
Phoebe was too agitated to reply.
She stood looking from oue to the
other.
I'ell me. quick." continued the
speaker, "have I gone stark, Blaring
mad? Tell me thai you see myself
standing there shivering, Just as I am
doing."
"1 see you both."' she gasped.
"Where fltfl ,o come from?" I nian
ageJ to ask my double.
"Where did you come from?"
"The office."
"1 have been at the office nil day till
I came here."
"What ollice?"
"Mine; 3S Harrison street."
Oh, hen vein! That was my office.
I had left 11 only twenty minutes be
fore. "Joe," I said to the butler, "am 1
myself or is that man myself?"
There wus a smash. Joe, whose
eyes were as big as saucers, dropped
the dish ou the floor and ran out of
the room without a word.
iiiocbe," said my double, "tell me
whether I aui the master of this
house or that"- He could get no fur
ther. "I don't know." said Phoebe, as
much agitated as any one of us.
iiou't know!" cried the man at the
(able, rising. "Ring up a doctor. 1
shall uo mad. No; I can't stand this.
1 can't wait. 1 must know the worst
at once'."
I 'ashing p:)st me, he seized his hat.
that was hanging In the ball, and in
another moment the door was slammed
behind him 1 went into the dining
room, sank into a chair and asked
liioci. to hand me a stimulant from
Hie sideboard. It put me In better con
'Utlnn. "Now, Phoebe, tell me what you
know about this."
"All I know, sir, is that an hour ago
vou-I mean him came home and said
he miisi have dinner at once, as he was
oing away, lie told me to bring hlra
ill the valuables and he would put
Lliem in the hank. 1 8ot tbe jewels"
"The jewels','"
"Yes, .dr. 1 gave them to til in and"
A liulit i,cKan to break through ray
stupid skull. Hushing to the telephone.
I called the )!i, aud told thein that
I
bad lie n victimized by some one
vlio looked exactly like me.
live inbiutes bad not elapsed be
tween (he man s departure and the
police getting after him. A patrol
wagon h,sned up to my house. They
ill took a look at me, and In less tnan
in hour they had niy double.
The story he told as to how he con
eivod of and arranged foe his plan
ie had been watching me for some
inie sdicw,.,! ,.reat Ingenuity. And
vet It u;:s a very simple matter. He
'md seen me at the jeweler's and
t' .ird all 1 s;iid about the Jewels. More
cr. he v!iv a strong resemblance
o himself, n(l(i peen on the stage
mi v ns well versed In the art of
making up. The suit 1 wore was of
rdinary dark cloth, and he possessed
m- near enough like it in appearance
o ene his purpose. Thus prepared
V had g,,ne to my house in my ab
sence and made himself at home.
For Sale
Stock in a local Corpora
tion on a basis which will
net 10 per cent. Splendid
investment. Been paying
this dividend since organ
ization. Property is well
worth the money.
Address
Box 593, Hood River, Oregon
My Career
By ESTHER VANDEVEER
My name is Arietta Hope. I consist
of 400 pages, with good deal on a
page. 1 am of two kinds, printed mat
ter and girl. Tbe girl part Is heroine
aud tbe paper part la book. But since
tbe heroine part is the living half 1
consider myself Arietta Hope.
My maker Is a woman of thirty five,
an age at which one may be expected
to have attained to a correct knowl
edge of ber sex. Yet since she did not
Issue me under ber own name, but the
assumed came of a man, Edgar Har
ding, she is not only unknown to those
who have read me, but unless she is
betrayed by certain feraluine traits
displayed In me she Is supposed to be
Marcellne. When my maker had fin
ished me she sent me the round of
publishers through the express com
panies, so tbat she did not make her
self known to them. However, she re
quested as an especial favor that they
would send ber the criticisms of their
"readers," these persons being employ
ed to read manuscripts and report to
the publisher whether each in their
oi'lnioii would lie a profitable book for
them to publish. The publishers usu
ally paid very little attention to my
maker's request, though a few did.
These criticisms were almost always
where the "render" bad mnde some
facetious remark about the story. The
first one my maker received was as
follows:
Mr. Hardlug has written a long
story purporting to portray a woman.
The author must have written the
book with a mirror before him. Wheth
er Be has portrayed himself or not is
not apparent, but certain it Is that
he has painted a man In petticoats.
Arietta Hope gives every evideuce of
having been constructed by one of the
male sex. I would decline It"
Long after the receipt of the criti
cism my maker made the acquaintance
of this critic and found him to be a
youug man still in bis 'teens.
My maker, having spent two years
upon me. at the same time studying
different women from whom she drew
certain feminine traits which site in
stilled Into me. was much discouraged.
If the representative of a prominent
publishing house bad mistaken ber
heroine for a petticoated man. what a
dreadful failure she must have made!
She put me iu a closet aud looked me
up with the intention of never taking
nie out again. But some one told ber
that Dodson & Co. were looking for
novels not of the flashy type, but stud
ies of character aud she decided to
submit me to them. So 1 was sent by
express, a letter going by mail beg
ging tbe firm to give her some idea of
tbe merits and demerits especially the
latter of the story. The manuscript
was returned to ber, accompanied by a
letter. In which the writer courteously
explained to her that more than 90 per
cent of the novels published were rend
by women. Women required stories
tbat showed the feminine touch. Mr.
Harding bad shown high literary ex
cellence, but he had not succeeded iu
portraying a woman.
My maker determined that when she
sent me out again she would adopt a
feminine nom de plume. She made a
new title page, with Edith Granger on
it instead of Edgar Harding, aud dis
patched me to the Parkiugtou Publish
ing company. She was again success
ful in eliciting a courteous reply, which
included the reader's report. It was as
follows:
"The author has given a picture of a
woman wbo Is sure to antagonize her
own sex. Arietta Hope Is altogether
too feminine for a heroine. In reading
about her we would surmise, did we
not know to the contrary, that she had
beeu drawn by a man, so many of
those volatile traits common to wom
en are found in her traits that men
love to ridicule."
"Good gracious!" exclaimed my mak
er wheu she read this. "Then I've
Jumped from the frying pan into the
fire?"
My maker determined upon one more
effort, aud if that failed she was re
solved to burn me. She setit me to
Littleton Brothers. Within a few days
she received a letter from the firui
stating bluntly . that they would not
care to publish me at their own risk,
but If she would pay the cost of pub
lication they would put their imprint
on the title page of the book, publish
ing It as their own.
My maker having all a woman's cu
riosity, desiring to discover who was
right about the book, accepted the con
ditions. She seut the publishers a
check, and they published me.
4 was a long while getting before the
public, but 1 succeeded lu the end.
Certain men recommended me because
they said I was a man's woman, and
certain women spoke well of hie be
cause they said I was a woman's wo
man. This at last gave me a start,
and as I pleased both meu and wo
men I took In all there was except the
children. Anyway, I kept growing aud
growing in popular favor till I was
pronounced what publishers call "phe
nomenal."
Littleton Brothers were very augry
because they must pay a larger royalty
than usual, having published nie for
mV author Instead of themselves. Nev.
ertheless, they made a fortune out of
me, and when congratulated on their
foresight they look wise ami say noth
ing. I am now In my fourth hundred
thousand, and the demand for me con
tin ues. My maker has built a country
place, where she has retired, spending
much of her time in declining requests
if publishers that she write for them.
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