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Mahood. SeessssssereesrreTeseed ALL KINUS OF LUMBER AY i LOW PRICES. . ANRESTIO ALSO ODAL AND ALL KINDS OF WOOh. i Ek FOR SAMANTHA for their § { \ Devoted Wite Helps Her Husband Samaria 1 vhich were Fuining his hon rin a ALLEN i | HOW IT WAN "CREATED with! OTHER CLEVER TYPES. Author's Smbitiou---bid Not Expect to Achieve Fame With Dialect Stories. "I have been ssked to tell how 1 este to write my first books and to adopt the pen name of "Josish Allen's Wife," 7" writes Miss Marietta Holley in Harper's Bazar. "1 really do not know, Perhaps | may have "had a thought that it was an original name that no one else would be likely to want, And though at that time decidedly unfash- jonable, my first sketches were as full of woman's suffrage argumenis as the most ardent sufiragette importuming parlinment 'to-day could desire. , "Probably I thought that it would soften somewhat the edge of unwel. come argument to have the writer meekly elaim to be wife of Josiah Al len and so stand in the shadow of a man's personality. "At any rate | can remember dis tinetly that the two leading charae- ters of my first hook, Samantha and Betsy Bobbett, stood in my mind for the twa sides of dhe argument. 'the plain, common sense Woman who, al though devoted to home and home luties, was still <desigous of claiming Jl the just rights belonging to our wmmon humanity, while in Hes Bobbett was portrayed the lackadpisi- wl romantic female, whe in an en deavor to please the forever masculine woloased herself willing not to have any rights, and was only toe desirous | © hegome a clinging vine if a tree sere forthcoming 16 which she might ding. . "How far off those days seem, when done, but not lonely, 1 sat in the anafl cottage room snd wrote i wrote and rewrote ! And oad wiough she lilacs and roses that grew dout the Jow window, and saw be ond the long green fields the sunset whind the dropping elms, and saw vhat youth sees, what hope sees, the lear waters springing up in. the des rt over the flat fields of fhe present, the blue mountaing of my desire. "But | gover hoped to win favor by were to bring my heart's desire. But on sending speei- aeps of the three different styles of writing, poems, imaginative s n good English, and. dialect, it was + great disappointipent, to me that the een-eyed publisher, whe had already nade un enccess of 'Mark Twain = and. soveral other humorous writers, chose he dialect stories. "I cannot say that 1 bad the hard ime that young * writers not infre (ently have to get their books de ore the public, for this publisher, vho proved a helpful friend ever af erward, wrote me, after reading the pecimens | sent him, to go on and irite a hook and he would be glad a publish it. But to my grief it was the dialect he inpisted upon, and not he finer writing 1 estoerved so much nore highly. "I vainly endeavored to convince vim that he was making a mistake, md made the most mournful prophe cies concerning the forthcoming book, which he met bravely but unflinoh- ngly; in fact, had he not held up wy lrooping courage by his constant en- ouragement, by letter, for | bad never n Spain that never have seen the light. Truly ii was no idle words | wrote in the preface, but a question I was 'constant. y asking my soul : " 'Who will read the book, Saman ha, when it's wrote ¥ "And mo one was more surprised han myself at the kind reception it met from the public. The name chos- n by the publisher and mysell was My Opinions and Betsy Bobbeit's.' wrote it Betsy Babbett, but by a winter's mistake it was allowed to remain 80. . "Of eourse, in a quiet country neigh: wrhood the fact that one of its old st inhabitants had written a book ame with startling effect. It was known that I had written sketches and wetry for lToeal papers; but perhaps "REF OF DRINK © BY SIMPLE REMEDY. to a Cure Theough Prescription. Mrs. 8.) of Trenton, was in despair. A loving father and a careful ider when sober--her husband bad adually fallen into drinking habits, home, health ind happiness, inflamed iis stomach and nerves and crested hat unnatural craving that kills con- cience, love, r a breaks all 'amily ties, But read her letter : "I feel it my duty to say a few 'ards about vour Tablets, t AS you a a8 the oon witles, and he feels are for drink. In faet, any Nquor f ving it to him, T fee 1 cann os much in faver of your wo * "Mrs, 8----, Trenton, Onv." : 'ng nerves, improves the eneral health, and raakes regular! physicians : lissolving instantly in teas, coffee or my dialect sketches, no, decidedly. To pN* a | | van wy essays, my poetry, wy castles [his birthday, He will get home from gas is eseaping. Hriends waiting for him." den guests held gna is esoaping in tha parlor. net him, Betey Hobbett would surely {pair of trousers carried over his grm. {same sculls."--New York Evening with a little of Samantha's common "kense and foresight 1 had never told that 1 mas writing a book, and even my relatives in the neighborhood were taken wholly, by surprise when the book came oul. ; "Many people expressed surprise that the writer, being unmarried, could have such knowledge of wan's na ture, forgetting that every woman has male relatives, and as one writer has a father "and usually brothers and male relatives, and as ove writer has said, 'Catch 'one man and describe him and you describe the species" And the same thing, 4 suppose, ean be said of wowen. { "Of course when the book appenred the characters were dissected one by, one and classified. A man apd woman livihg quite near the authoress were said to be the living models from | which she drew 'the characters of | Josiah and Samantha: of conrse, nothing coil be 'more absurd than! this story. do mot know whether they ever heard this surmise or not; | at all events if they did, it did not change their friendship for the writer. | "fiwas soon afte? 'My Opinions' | was published that a Chicago chub | was formed, called the Betsy Bobbett | Club, each member taking a character | and name from the book and sending | a report of their meetings to the author. Josiah Allen, president of: the club, 'personated by a dignified Chicago business man, came to Pierre pont Manor to see the anthor, who, he said, was giving them all so much sure, "Many elocutionists have personated Samantha or endeavored to do so, but few have succeeded, nearly all of | theta anaking her too ftragie, too bizarre, she being a combination + of earpestness, common sense and calm ness; in fact it was and ig her con-| stant endbavor fo be megum herself | and influenee her exciteable partner to} be so. But many of these elocutionists are far from megnmuess, being inclia- etl to tear emotion into tatters, and ; make Samantha's common sense aay ings and eloquent eppisodin's seem like the ravings of bysteria." Jt Was & Surprise. "We have the surprise beautifully planned," "sail - young Mes, Westor- leigh to the guests, "and Frank doesn't suspect a thing. I: think that he has even forgotten that today's the office at about seven o'clock. Then he always goes upstairs to take off his ¢oat and put on his smoking jac ket for the evening. When "he is up- stairs 1 will call out suddenly, "Ob, Frank, come downstairs--be quick! The " Then he will rush down here aad find the crowd of It went exactly as planned. Wester: leigh came bome at the regular hour and went directly upstairs. The hid- their breath while Mrs. Westerleigh called out excitedly, "Oh, Frank, come down quick. The Every light had beefi turned out, and the parlor was in perfect dark- ness. There was a rapid rush, of feet down the stairway, then a voice said, | "I dont smell any gas." | "Better light the jet," Mra. Wester- leigh suggested tremulously. "Here's a match," The match was struck 'and suddenly the room was flooded with Tight Everybody screamed. The hostess fainted. For there in the centre of the room stood Westerleigh, attired only | in a natty union suit, with a fresh The Property Lime. The consumer of the gin rickey who knew all there wns to Know about gin rickeys, detected something wrong about the taste of the one he was drinking. Study of the matter told him that instead of lime juice, it way flavored with the juide of the lemon. But, no. There in the glass, ups compromisingly green amd genuine, was hall a lime. Still, there 'was something wrong, After taking two or three additional sips he t to speak shoud it te the bartender. "fan't there lemon juice in this rick: ox 1" dw inquived. The bartender realized that before him was one who could vot be blufied, "There in,"" he confessed, shame ocedly. "You see, we ran out of mes long age, so pach fimea rick. ov's ordered we take that hall lime in your glass, squesre it full of lemon juice to freshen it np, amd serve the drink." ~New York Times. Presumption Rebuked. Samuel Rogers, the veesatile wit, banker and poet, used to gather at his famous breakisste the mest bnill- iant' minds in Great Britain or among visiting strangers. Oue of the most fre: quent guests were Douglas Jerrold famous #8 a dramatist, satirist, and ane of the "fixed" stars of Punch, His impromptus and retorts were as brilliant and sudden as lightning. On a ogeasion a recat pos of Victor 's wha under i and a' poet, who wi i of a noble howse, drawled: © "i "1 have just written a pogm on the same subject, Hugo and I row in the same bout, know." : "Nes, aid Jerrold, with withering sneer, "but not with a the Mail, : A Marvelous Inventor, M. 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