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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2788, 11 October 1910, Page 2

I A celebrated and very prolific novelist has little sympathy with the "art for art's sake" cult. He has a swift, fluent pen, «>1 does not believe in that indefatigable polishing which some writers advocate. Otherwise ha could not possibly turn out the num--1 ber of volumes annually that he does. A young woman was introduced to him the other day. Hearing that he was a novelist, she said : "And have you written anything ! that will live after you are gone ?" "I don't know," he replied. "You see, what I am after is something that will enable me to live while I am here." In the heat of debate in the Amer- , ican Congress Colonel Johnson of Indiana called an Illinois representative a jackass. The expression was ; unparliamentary and in retraction, JohnFon said : '• While I withdraw the unfortunate word, Mr. Speaker, I must InI sist that the gentleman from Illinois is out of order." " How am I out of order ?" yelled | the man from Illinois. " Probably a veterinary surgeon I could tell you," answered Johnson, and that was parliamentary enough I to stay on the record. 1727.