Life — May 24, 1900 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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«LS TPiE* The Diary of a Successful Novel. : RN May 1. Title and date of publication an- © May 18. Publishers stop adver- . S nounced. using book and take up May 2 Announcement copied in the Iiter- “Crimson Rottage,"" by ary columns of many Journals, May 5. Book issued, First edition. May 7. Second edition. Great crowds buying at Racy's and Moneymaker's, May 9. Sale reaches twenty-fve thousand coples. May 10. Critica praise incisive knowledge of the author, with comment on the author's wide experience, and years of toll and negiect In wretched poverty. 5. The author 18 twenty-four years old. May 12. Book reaches elghty-fourth thou- sand. May 13, Literary pertodicals pabltsh de- scription of the author's childhood, with pictures of estate in Northumber- land, once the ancestral home of Gull- laume Le Buffalo, May 14. Milwaukee paper pubitshes picture of steamer (lower deck) that brought the author to America, May 16, Sates at a standstilt. TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN,Monday, May 28,1900. Amateur Astronomer: GRACIOUS! TEN MINUTES ADEAD OP TIME! Molly Clawmombledeley. May 22, Book further eclipsed by production of + Too Hot and Too Cold,” by Wary Tuomston. May 25. Critics tarn on book and refer to it as a plece of “stupid tnan- uty. May 28%. Author goes down to the river and sees a copy of his novel on second-hand bookstand at Avenue Band Twelfth Street. May 30. Author sails for Europe with material for a book on America, Name on sailing list with Senator Clark and x dog belonging to foreign actress, Datly papers all publish sailing Hat. May 31. This date ts only thirty days tn advance of the finish of several other “popular” novela. JedeM. A Fair Proposition. HE PAYING TELLER: I cannot cash this check, madam. Sne: Why not? ‘There isn't enough moncy here to meet it.” “Then can't you meet it half way ?” QUO AN IMPORTANT QUESTION. HICH is tho meanest city in the United States ? This is an important question, and one that Lire would like to have definitely settled. With that object in view, we offer A Prize of Fifty Dollars in Gold for tho best statement of facts which prove that any particular city is the meanest one in this country. Conditions, Competitors must limit thelr arguments to three hundred words each. Write on one aide of the paper only. The context will close June 1st, 1900, and the award will be made ax soon thereafter as the Tespective ineriis of the arguments can Le deter- mined. The winning argument will he printed, together with auch others as may seem to Live worthy ° of that distinguished hon Names and addresses the writers should accompany all manuscripts, In no case will these be printed without the permisston of the sender. Those who desire their manuscripta returned should enclose # stamped and addressed return envelope. Fach mauuscript may bear a pseudonym, which will be printed with the argument ‘The Faltors of LIVE ure to be the sole Judges of the merits of the arguments. CHICAGO. In the design of the seal of the city of Chicago there ts a Hive Indian standing on a bluff looking: ata schooner on a like, As there is not a blu composed of real soll, sod or rock along the tine of the shore of Lake Michigan, from the site of the old prize-fght arena near the Indiana State Iine on the south to the point in Edgewater on the north where Doctor Cronin’ body was