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THE COUNT TALKED.
ANNA GOULD'S'HUSBAND LIKED H13
NAME IN PRINT.
Every Evidence that a Regular Literary
Bureau Was Maintained in Connection
With the Preparations for the \Veddinl.
Interviews and Details by the Yard.
That the Count de Castellane, Anna
Gould’s French husband, enjoyed the
cheap notoriety usually accorded act-
resses. is clearly evinced by the space oc-
eupied in metropolitan papers by the
ante-nuptial announcements and'gossip 3
That col-
of the then impending event.
nmn after column of the stuff published
emanated from an inner source there is
no doubt. Why the great papers gave
their space to it is one of those things
one cannot explain.-
Here is astory from the New York
Herald:
"Helasl” he exclaimed with true Gala
lic fervor. “I came to America unknown.
and to-day I am famous. .Each hour.
brifigs me twenty letters. There are men
who want to sell me jewels and lace, sil-
var and old furniture. There are others
who want to be my coachmen, my
grooms and my valets de chambre.
There are lots who beg outright, and
many more who wish to extract
from me the secrets of my soul. There is
notan hour of the day that I can call my -
own.
“The manner of my going to bed and
getting up has been minutely described.
They say I lace and pad, that my father
and mother are separated, and that I am
to be a charge for life upon the Gould
estate.
“My pictures are scattered broadcast
through the land, my—”
A messenger approached the count
with a note.
“Yes, and here is a man who wants to
curl my hair for nothing.
“I came to America to indulge in my
love of sport. I had heard much of your
Western shooting and hard riding. I
went firSt to Newport. where I was fasci-
nated by the place and its society. I
stayed on and on. Then I came to New
York and to Colorado, where I had
great shooting. I got back in time to
find the hunting clubsin full blast.
“It was while hunting with the Mon-
mouth Count-y pack at Lakewood that I
first met the Goulds. They were kinda
ness itself. I was thrown often in their
society, both then and afterward in New
York. I greatly admired Mr. George
Gould’s cleverness and wide grasp of
information. Miss Anna Gould was a
charming young lady, simple and unaf-
fected, but no idea of marriage or any
other feeling than esteem crossed my
mind. -
"‘Then came the invitation to join their
party to Canada. It had been my origi-
nal intention to journey north and see
the famous sports on snow and ice.. It
was during that trip that the truth came
out. Ikuow not exactly how or when,
biit Ireturned to New York the accepted
suitor of Miss Gould.
“The brother and sister, her guardians,
gave their consent, and it was when the
Herald announced the engagement that
I awoke to find myself famous.”
Count dc Castellane was talking for
publication, but with the greatest-frank-
ness.
“I have been misunderstood complete-
ly as to any settlements the Gould fam-
ily may make upon me. The question
has never been broached or even hinted
at in any way. The whole idea is exceed-
ingly repugnant to me and must be so to
my relatives and friends in France. My
lawyer has naturally conferred with the
Gould lawyers upon those matters,which
must come up when marriage is contem-
plated. ' Beyond that I‘know nothing.
“I have always declared against a long
engagement, and. only asked that our
marriage should be as soon as possible.
“My great pleasure on getting home
will be that I shall not find myself so
famous 10. person there, ‘and can then
afford to snap my fingers at all the un-
true statementsthat have been circulated
about me here.
“I can never accustom myself to hav-
ing my name so constantly in print. Mr.
Gould tells me that that is the American
way of doing things; but I must say that
it is the only American fashion to which
I object.”
A Well Intentioned Man‘s Mistake.
The Well Intentioned Man overheard
two women talking together in the cable
car and he immediately let down the por-
tals of his ears, for the “fell Intentioned
Man always goes about with a lifelong
hunger in his heart to insert himself into
the affairs of other people.
“I tell you he is a perfect tyrant,” said
woman number one.
“I haven’t a doubt of it,” said woman
number two.
“I will listen to this poor woman’s
tale,” thought the \Vell Intentioned Man
“and perhaps I may be able to assist the
poor soul.”
“Yes, he is a regular tyrant and des-
He has no mercy on me whatever.
He rules the whole house like a regular
czar.”
“Of course he does,” laid woman num-
ber two.
-“I shall have to offer my services to
this poor down trodden woman,” thought
the “Well Intentioned Man.
“Yes, he rides over the whole of us
rough shod. And sometimes when he
gets on the rampage he breaks every«
thing he can lay his hands on.”
“Biadam,” said the “'ez‘l Intentioned
Man, who could . stand .‘it no longer,
"madam, my services are at your dispo-
sal. Let me go to your home and inter-
cede with your tyrannical husband.”
“He isn’t my' husband at all, you sim<
pleton," snapped woman number one.
“He’s my nine months old baby—bless
his precious little soul!”
An Extravagant Girl.
“A penny for your thoughts!" she cried
To the dudeling by her side.
Then she stopped to reconsider
And her calm reflection bid her
Not to cling
To a bargain quite lso rash,
So she spoke up like a flash:
“Hold! That‘s whatbad habits brill-
In my extravagant way .
I always do pay
About two prices for a thing!"
_ —-Chica.go Record.
One Habit Corrected.
“Idon’t know whether I will be able
to break him of all the habits! do not
like,” said the engaged girl, ”but the
first one I stopped for him was just as
easy.”
“W'hat habit was that!" asked the
other girl- . I, ,._
”The. habit he had of proposing to me
two or three times a wenk.”—~Iudilnaioiil'
Lie-real. .r _ . .1
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THE FATHER OF THE DlME NOVEL.
Erastus F. Beadle Published 'Books That
i \Vere‘Ch‘eap and Exciting, but Moral. ‘
A man died almost unnoticed the other
day in New‘York who was, in his prime, .
i a. revolutionist in the literary field. I re-
‘ fer to the publisher, Erastus F. Beadle,
l the fatherof the cheap novel. Those of
‘ us whose memory ereaches back to the
times before the civil war will recall the
. fact that the 25 and 50 cent novel was the
rule in those days, and the cost of paper
and printer’s ink, which went up with
everything else, soon accustomed the
novel reader to the idea of paying even a
dollar or more for his treat.
: But through all the .“Beadle Dime
; Novel” held its own. It was a little
2 salmon covered duodecimo, rarely illus-
trated inside, but often with a startling
1 picture underneath the title. In an in-
.formal chat with a visitor about ten
years ago, Mr. Beadle told most enteb
tainingly the story of his venture in pub-
lishing. The idea of the dime novel oc-
curred to him, he said, in 1859, and he be-
gan to act upon it in 1860.
“The state of the book market then,”
he went on, “was peculiar. Everyone was
publishing books with thick paper and
wide margins—trying to see how little
'they could give their readers for a dollar
or a dollar and a half. Publishers ex-
changed books and took back such as
were not sold. IVell, I took the other
1 tack, and thought I would see how much
I could give for 10 cents—cash sales, no
credit. Everyone said the project would
fail, but it didn’t.
-"W’e first published dime song books,
cook books, etiquette books, etc., which
we bound in a salmon colored cover. No
‘yellow covered dimes’ were ever sent out
by me; the color was salmon. The yellow
covered ones were imitations, and were a
bad lot. Well, after a while I started
the dime novel. Mrs. Ann S. Stephens
was the author of the first oxier-‘Madeska’
—a prize stor ', published forty years ago
in the Ladies’ Companion. I paid, her
$250 for the right to reprint the story.
We sold 10,000 copies right off, and then
20,000.” .. ‘
Mr. Beodle had an editor in his employ
named Victor, who used to pass upon
manuscripts, order special work and the
like, just as the editor of a literary week-
ly or monthly would do it. He was as
interested as his chief in recalling their
joint undertaking.
“The authors who wrote for us,” said
he, “were notable persons in their way.
\Ve had, for instance, one book by a man
who was once a member of the Ohio
legislature. another by an ex—governor
of the same State. He never wrote us a
bad line. Edward S. Ellis—you know
him?—wrote us our most popular novel.
He was a Methodist, and he went to his
minister to know whether he could write
a dime novel. He was aschool teacher in
Trenton and was not 21 when he wrote
his first ‘dime’ for which he got $85. That
was ‘Seth Jones.’ ”
“Yes, I remember,” broke in Mr. Beadle.
unable to restrain his. enthusiasm, “we
plastered the country with ‘\Vho is Seth
Jones?’ and When the excitement ran
high we answered the question with that
picture you see on that cover—‘I’m Seth
Jones.’ “’3 sold 60,000 copies of that story
right off.”
“These novels,” Mr. Victor continued,
“introduced either historical or local
characters. They followed right after
‘Cooper‘s Tales,’ which suggested them.
Mrs. A. M. Dennison wrote historic fic‘
tion; Judge Jared Hall, of Ohio, wrote
‘The Slave Sculptor,’ a story of Mexico
in Montezuma’stime-good names. Then
there was Clara Augusta; she was a
Maine lady, and a clever writer. Ellis
wrote exclusively for us, and We have
paid him as high as $250 fora novel of
40,000 words. .
‘-"Why, we paid better, in proportion to
the quantity of matter we accepted, than
the Atlantic Monthly. Our stories Were
very popular, and our yellow covered
rivals—bad books—began to spring up.
What did we do then? Oh, we had to
kill a few more Indians than we used to,
but we held our own against them.”-
Kate Field’s \Vashington.
Truth Not Always the Best.
“I always used to be told,” said Foot-
lnit, “that frankness and truthfulness
endeared a man to his friends. but the
whole thing is a delusion. It is lying
that makes a fellow popular.
“Now, take my experiences of today.
My wife made some wheat cakes for me
with her own little hands. They were
the worst slabs of putty I ever tried to
eat. When she asked my opinion of
them, being a truthful man, I told her
that I had never put anything so un-
palatable in my mouth, and that a ten
year-old girl could have done better.
Then she began to cry.
‘ “After that I went down town to my
store. A woman came in to get some
dress goods. She picked out a material
entirely unsuited to her years. Having
been taught that truthfulness commends
itself to a customer in the long run, _I
said to her: ‘You’re much too old for that
sort of n dress. It is not suited to a
woman over fifty.’ I thought she would
be obliged to me for my tactful interest
in her appearance, but instead of that
she flounced out of the store in a rage,
.and I think she’ll never come back.
\ “I don’t believe frankness is the best
policy at all, and I’m going to make the
acquaintance of some first class liar and
get him to {.5ch me a few lemons."
Accounted For.
The child contemplated the storm.
“W'hy?” he asked, the snow
white?”
The mother sighed, and yet it was not
right to keep that budding mind in ig—
norance.
“Because. my son,” she solemnly re-
plied, “We have not as yet been annexed
to Chicago.’ ’——Detroil: Tribune.
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Not the Girl to Endure a Slight.
“\Ve need no ring to plight our troth,"
he suggested, as he kissed her impetu-
ously.
“Yes, we do,” retorted the maiden.
"None of your slight of hand tricks with
me.”—Detroit 'l‘ribue.
“Squeaky shoes,” said Mr. Gratebar,
“i don’t like, but I rather admire a
squeaky rocking chair, if it is old and
comfortable. I shouldn’t like to have a
new chair squeak, but with an old chair
it is diflerent; that has earned a right to
squeak. Of course Ishouldn’t like to
have it squeak too much, for that would
imply that it was insecure, and without
security there can be no comfort; but I
iike to haveit squeal gently, with one
- arm ‘or one leg just a little loose. It
doesn't squeak at all unless you rock
back just so far. and then it squeak:
" with precisely the same sound always, a
rhythmic" squeak that has rest’and eon;
tort in even-1.110%."
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