The Caldwell tribune. [volume], February 24, 1894, Image 3

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MINIATURE.
In all your oemg there's no constant note.
Fair wayward witch, and yet no charm yon
miss;
Yon woo us with the music in your throat.
Now coldly clear, now tender as a kiss:
The little frown that trips.
The laughter on your lips,
T he soft touch that belies
Tho auger in your eyes.
And all the myriad moods that the devout
"dore, goddess of mystery and doubt.
\ —London World.
II
VP THE MS.'S STORY.
91 May I tell my «tory? I am a MS. of medi
tm weight and bulk, and in addition to the
tale which is told through me I have a tale
to tell, a story of adventure by land and
sea, of experiences in tragedy and comedy,
with a cIuhh of beings known as editors.
The author of my being was a woman. I
use the p:ist tense, as I knew her leug ago
—so long, iudeed, that fortune must have
crushed her ere this had she not been of a
firm, strong mold, which refuses to be
crushed, even by the heavy weight of an
unknown name.
At the time of my conception she lived
with her father in a small cottage in a
* sleepy old town in the heart of an eastern
state.
Its chief attraction was an academy of
learning, where my author pursued her
studies with character and decision—doing
everything she did well and completely,
and indeed winning for herself the title of
"the brightest girl in town."
She bad a gift of expression and some
talent, and her friends often said, "You
ought to write," a phrase so often repeated
that she began to have some little confi
dence in it of herself.
Her father was a pensioned officer, dis
abled by a wound from doing manual la
bor, and the pension that he drew was
their main support, and while ambition
spurredjoii the daughter to make the most
of whatever talent she possessed, stern
necessity, that inexorable driver, lashed
her flagging hopes from day to day with a
demand for dollars—dollars—dollars with
which to supply fast growing needs.
In a little back chamber, away from all
intruding eyes, and even the too garish
light of day, tale after tale was produced,
and each, with a parcel of hope done up
within it. sent out to the mercies of an
editorial world.
In process of time I, too, was born, and
to the mind of my author I was her mas
terpiece.
A true story of a remarkable chapter of
incidents. A love story? Why, yes, of
course. "Men may come and men may go,"
but love goes on forever.
I too went out, and my author timidly
asked for me the pay which she had been
too modest to expect for my predecessors,
which, by the way, had been, the most of
them, graciously accepted and pigeon
holed.
I well remember my first reception. It
*yas in the office of a leading religious
•paper, and the editor was a mighty man
in flesh and titles—and he looked me over
suspiciously.
j " "Hum— um. A young writer, evidently.
Hn»—crude; very crude— um—um. A love
story, and written by a woman who wants
pay. Such presumption had best be nipped
in the bud."
He seized a pen and scratched off a note,
which I had ample time to read as we
jostled along together in the mail bag.
» Dear Madam —While your story shows onn
* tdderable merit, we regret to say it is unavail
P" able for onr columns, and it is returned with
8F c thanks . for. the privilege of examination. If
^ you are thinking of making a living iu litera
ture, I feel constrained to offer you a bit of ad
•® vice—saw wood or take in washing, and you
At ' will And it a more pleasant and lucrative field
A ->f labor than this. Respectfully yours,
the ' Dr. W .
due ~ 1 My author laughed .hysterically when
Of Reread thistenderand sympathetic epistle.
>« j n washing, indeed," holding up
tiny, slender hand. "Perhaps I might
"9 *irn my shoestrings at the washtub, and I
8te& g a |] bave to learn to cut kindling before
can venture out as a woodcutter. 1
•** vbink we'll test the value of your advice
Py» lrst, Dr. W ."
0' o J next went to the office of one of the
T leading magazines on the principle of
obj<^*Nothing venture, nothing have."
U8ll' ; 1 felt that I had come on a fruitless quest
CoT^vhen I saw the great number of compan
tiortons which joined me upon the road.
Of ~ When at last my turn came to be opened
frirai found myself in the hands of a tired,
less ^aded man, who plainly showed weariness
full eà mind and body—the reader for the
Tli N* ziDe through whose hands all matter
ft nk st ^ or ' ts * 8 ' ftiu S
fK^^His brow contracted as he took me up
nd looked at my title, then at my author's
Wllsc rçjg, "| wish these unknown writers
DOar stop sending in their unprofitable
® er >ware8," he said petulantly. He made a
StOlTjretensj of reading a few pages, but find
to nothing which struck his weary fancy
hov as brilliant Or original he thrust me hasti
COD lj into another envelope with a printed
•tri slip and I was again a "Rejected MS.,"
enc lying upon the editorial page of the maga
1 ai ne whereon was printed this item:
"The editors are ready at all times to
seize upon anything original or unique in
the line of literature without reference to
». the name or fame of its author, and all
2*1 '^matter submitted is carefully and labori
f.j| ously sifted in the hope of finding some
I stray gem of literary excellence."
fi 'i When I arrived home I found my author
in a maze of delight—a story bad been ac
cepted by a publisher of worldwide fame.
With a word of hearty praise and better
' still a check worth very much more to her
5 than its mere face value, for it was the
sen very first penny she had ever earned by her
hou; pen.
tion 1 "Ah, you dear thing, you," she cried,
cha8c ra * tzing aroUD( l the room with the bit of
»lue paper in her hand, "you represent at
least twenty-five washings, so I think, Dr.
W , we'll wait awhile before we follow
jour clever advice."
She took me out with my printed letter—
s wooden letter I remember she called it
•-and patted me tenderly.
"I tear you're going to grow old and gray
In my service, old friend," she said; "but
never mind, when we get famous we'll have
the laugh on some of these stony hearted
fellows who laugh at us now," and away 1
went on another tour, this time to a coun
try newspaper of large circulation. "I'll
not soar too high this time," said my author
as she sealed me ua
say
P"
no l
M
re
I
The exhilaration of the check had not
worn off when I returned again, and Miss
Mary could take nie back without a tear
or siîçh of disappointment.
I "If I were selling calico," she said philo
; sophieaiiy, "I should not weep or moan be
Î cause one objected to the color, another to
j the quality and a third to the price. I my
I self should know that I was selling good
calico at a fair price, and I am equally con
fident that I am offering a good story for
sale at regular rates—which means the
buyer's own price—so no tears, if you please.
Miss Mary, because your wares don't hap
pen to sell."
I went now to a household journal of
large circulation, and here I think i spent
the weariest and dreariest time of my whole
existence. Locked into a desk with dozens
of others awaiting a tardy examination, I
spent a whole year of suspense and anxiety.
There is some satisfaction in flying about
—one sees the world at all events—but to
await one's fate in dreary, voiceless silence
is most exasperating.
"There! Another letter from that tire
some woman, inquiring about her precious
MS.," said the editor of the great "house
hold magazine" fretfully as he tumbled
me out upon his desk. "Some trashy love
story, I'll be bound. Why can't women
write something besides love stories I won
der."
He glauced me over carelessly. "Yes,
yes. Just as I expected. Angelina and
Adolphus get married, and their earthly
career is ended. Well, Miss Mary Bobo
link you're welcome to your story. I don't
want it."
I could scarcely wait to get back, I was
so anxious to know how they fared in my
home, and I perceived at once that I had
come in an opportune time, when my au
thor took me out with a trembling hand.
Her eyes were heavy with much weep
ing, and she laid me down with a sigh.
"Only a returned MS.," she said sadly,
"and how poor father's funeral expenses
are going to be paid I cannot see."
I went upon a weary round after this—
back and forth—hither and thither, and as
my author's name was beginning to be
come known editors read me with more of
attention, and as a special mark of favor
returned me with a criticism.
One said I was too long, movement not
rapid enough, and incident too much
spread out. Another that I needed more
careful elaboration—movement too rapid
and not enough of analysis and close at
tention to details.
Still another, that my subject matter was
too unreal—not natural enough, and too
evidently written to pander to a demand
for the strange and impossible.
A fourth, that there was too much of a
sameness in my subject matter—nothing
striking—should be condensed to at most
one-third of its present length.
At the fifth and last criticism, that if
my author expected to succeed she must
draw her topics from nature, "take real
incidents with which to touch the great
heart of the reading public," Miss Mary
quite broke down.
"Having ears they hear not, and having
eyes they see not," she sobbed.
"How can I touch the great heart of the
public if editors persist in standing be
tween it and me, and the very articles
which are drawn from real life are those
which come back most frequently, and
branded as unreal, forced and imaginary?"
She tossed me into a drawer. "Lie there,
good friend," she said sadly. "You have
done all you could for me, and "I have but
one postage stamp in the world and that is
too precious to waste upon a forlorn hope."
I lay there for five years, often seeing the
face of my author—now sad, now gay and
bright with triumph and success, but my
rest was not dist urbed until one day when
an urgent letter,came from a well known
editor, the very person to whom I had gone
in the first of my career, and who had since
been promoted from the position of reader
to that of editor in chief.
"We will be glad to publish something
from your pen." he wrote, "and anything
: you send us will receive a cordial welcome,"
! Her eyes twinkled as she opened the
I drawer where I lay. "Gome out, my friend,
j the day of your triumph is at hand." she
said smilingly.
She read me over carefully and critically.
"You were always a favorite with me, and
I like you better still after all these years.
I find some of the freshness and enthusi
asm of my youth here." she said to a gen
tleman who sat near.
"But hasn't that story been rejected at
that office? I think you told me its history
once," he replied.'
"Yes, and there is the fun in it. I dare
say it was never examined beyond the first
page, and that by the first reader into whose
hands it fell. Oh, I am safe enough in
sending it, I assure you, my dear."
I fairly trembled with mischievous glee
as I found tyself again in the familiar
presence of the editor. His locks were
whitening, and he had donned glasses since
I left, but otherwise he was the same. His
memory of me was not so vivid, however,
and he read me through with a chuckle of
satisfaction and without the faintest symp
tom of recognition, jotting down this edi
torial notice for the issue in which I was to
appear:
"We present our readers this month with
a story from the pen of the gifted and fa
mous author. Miss Mary Bobolink, now
Mrs. Marlowe. It is a tale of rare beauty,
its delicate touches of nature reaching out
with an unerring grasp toward the heart
strings of its readers. It has always been
our aim to cull the very best from the fields
of literature, and in this instance we think
our readers will agree that we have suo
ceeded."
"Hal ha! ha!" laughed Mr. Marlowe as
he sat by his wife's desk in her study.
"Two hundred dollars with a note of thanks
thrown in from a 'magazine for a story
which had once been rejected there. You
did rather get the best of that office, Mary."
"Nothing succeeds like success," Mrs.
Marlowe replied with a smile, but she does
not know to this day that he who rejected
and accepted her MS. is one and the same
person.—Mis. F. M. Howard in Journalist.
Spring la Walla Walla.
In the Walla Walla valley. Wash.,
spring is as far advanced as in western
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bloom, lilacs are in bud and cherry and
1*3 ach trees will soon be in full blossom.
The winter was a mild and short one in
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"Yes; .oree of habit!" "Habit?" "Certainly;
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It is not merely pain that people dread
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Sufferers from couehs, sore throat, etc.,
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The tax of 2 cents a pack on playing cards is
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Ose Kuameline Stove Polish; no dust, no smell.
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