Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1916 — Dry Reading. [ARTICLE]

Dry Reading.

There is a young author in Baltimore who is determined to achieve fame in the writing line if it takes his whole life. Accordingly, he is even willing to defray the cost of putting oft-M®® market the numerous novels he writes from year to year. On the occasion of his last visit to his publisher, however, he was somewhat vexed, a rather unusual thing with him. “Why,” asked he, "do you charge ms more this time than before?” "Well,’’ said the publisher, with the utmost frankness, “the compositors were constantly falling asleep over your last novel."