September – Cosmopolitan published Sam’s story, “Is He Living or Is He Dead?”

The Brooklyn Eagle, Sept. 4, 1893, p.4, “Cosmopolitan Magazine” reported on the Sept. issue of the magazine:

The September Cosmopolitan boasts modestly of $6,066 paid by it for papers by ex-President Harrison, William D. Howells and Mark Twain. This is about the average money value probably of 8,000 words, the number in the papers taken together, when so furnished by persons sufficiently famous. …

Mark Twain’s story [“Is He Living Or Is He Dead?”], excellently illustrated by Alice Stephens, about Millet living to enjoy a higher price for his pictures created by his supposed death, is certainly worth the money paid. [See Sept.3 entry.]