Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-03-28
-r-a 2 From the New York Citiz
ARTEHaUS I WARD. 10
ny oEogeh ALl,FBED T6wNsEND.

'saf jt poor 4 ,bs rJev Browne X ~ was a.
I sb owmatl IN the fullest sense, his associates
: and aspirations being always for the cap
&c and. bells, and his choice of q character to
i,3. express his hi1mors being from the begin
b. ming the old waX-work exhibitor. r. IednlJt {
~ Il think his life ought to receive more
than a paragraphs attention; because, as
i popular humorist, he was representative
of the habits and affinities of his class,
white in origin he was individual as the
s5,hero of showmanistale! djoaMiaa
D ls"W With about enough education for a
signsboard, y as h5 himself saba lean
provincial adventurer, not midway IN his
teens, his dialect of the most nasal Down
Eastern and nadetoematch hisdress, young
j., Brown iefthis stool in a printing Office Of
Skowhegan, Maine, and came to Boston for
-s his fortune. He dropped, by chance into
the office of a laughing bankrupt paper,
called the Carpet Bag, where by fortuity
iAef good humor were collected together B.
- P.aShillaber (fb Mrs. Parting ton y 20 Ohm O.
SAKE. and Chas G. Halpine 81 "Dliles
LQ'Reilly'n. . Ward ATTRACTED no attention
beyond his5uiicouthness,j as HE was proba-
- bly, the, best model of the, traditional 4 an
kec boy that Lowell or Trowbrldge could
discover. q His noseo WAS a7keen aqulllne,
&! yeIygmobile and peculiar his eyes were OF
the palest indigo redeemed from GOODNESS
q by7their constant twinkle ;ahe had a. conn
u try boys high complexion a teT-head,
an irresolute, versatile mouth and chin, and
moro than a due allowance of neck land
+, 9legs. g At first he was promising compost
tor; but his heart was never in the case;
his most beloved Office perquislte was a
r. pass TO the theatre: he despised small
10 thrift aud found in the smart spirits around
him no great inducements to cultivate
= method as q fine art Abort as froWsy,
good for nothing disciple of Gottenburg as
Z ever filled stick" Ward was quite spoiled
~ as a compostor when some of his Jokes
were admitted to the Carpet Bags columns
s. From his exemplars here he insensibly
built up the phraseology and photography
8 Of the future Arte71,us Shillaber's old lady,
.lnispronouncing.a and maldef1ning, Halpine's $,
political ardor, and Saxe's satire of social
things, combinedipromptl in the lndomita-
Able old showmvn, and took Wards future
indiyidualities. Ill .--7o'ar@:sa -".H
'd@' 1t is TO be suspected that he ceased 10
~. adorn the mechanical Office, and, after
year or two, with that errantry which is
- The favorite literary apprenticeship, heNYas
discovered at email town in Ohio named
Tiffin, whittier he had walked with q bur
die on his back to TASK foraM job At
a. Tiff1n he assumed the responsible duties of
local editor and general compositor, at four
dollars per week, and soon became known
3 for the duaintness and pertness of his para
graphs, many of which were picked up by
20, the neighboring weekly newspapers, and
circulated to the praise of their author.
an The little notoriety they obtained him was
: of no immediate good result. He received
sfa no promotion to better newspaper but
q sin lieu thereof thefriendship of all the lazy
e., wags in the village, and these'took up the
burden of his time, so that his tavorlte
textbook became the bottom of q tumbler.
T., People In Tiff1p remember him still, IN the
e..i luxury Of new apparel, purchased by no
s.atice OF our enterprising tOwnsfnan, the dry
goods merchant, and making free with
strangers in the town of which he was the
~ browning hospitality, Every travelling
4 n show that happened In the place found in
him patron, and he was most generally
behind the scenes, happy as q king in the
friendship Of clown and acrobat, who re-
= cognized in him the traditional good fellow
and incipient genius.
One of these said tome, since his death
sa-r9 He was the funniest fellow l. ever see
But, Lord ], didn't think then he had hall
so much fun into him. He made more
i'oG Jokes than six END men, ' He never had
nothing whatever of no kind to do, when
,.g I see him, and had tried to get an engage
ment in most all the shows that went
I'll II a tod tn ha romeo
Ranio and Trianrle Rnt Vbaat warn't bii
ji,a no bou;l sHe bad,t ,,,,ta lsnd "a, az,
biz Artemus was a scholar 90 far as
see, and always nrettv tolahul hard mn :
"a eainst All our theories tina life ought tn
have a p,lrpose. rises III, the case az 3 life
the best education to which is purposeless.
You can no more cultivate humor than YOU
'af" can grow' gold or granite It is doubt
sisa full that b ownes ambition to be great
humerist extended, at that time beyond
90 the wish to see his freshest Joke apprecia
a ted. His life had only object bevond enjoy
ment that of placing his old mother IN
= Maine beFond the reach Of want, This
r, =, was. his Youngest, longest. and only Marina
nent ambition, He had consummated II
II vaa,.s before. ba diad Siand this heinz, Me
nj 'only nersor,al dutvl was allowed Bv ]
In satisfaotion that mad dnwn1 b;S for
atom Grave III sr~rss1G ,~,H 81 - -
Fr6n, Tim l,at want tn ToIa;,oa az "a
b - mortar He maSe yerv ,,io,,snnf ,,s 70
~ gn,nhist md now and ti,e,, IN S;tad s,re
SAVAGE niece of irresist;bIa isatirs a. fha 70.
noyter IF the onnosita naner Toie6o ,,-os
one Of the most ora snifS,gT1f new towns ;ts
sole conviyislities clnsteTino about the bo.
tel, where Won mioht have seen Browns
! ,Inowigrown to be "a tall lonp.haired IN,
no ikempt picture of native genius making in.
innate with townsfolks and strangers, .
~ wild weed in commerce and society, the
Z. best known and most lonely existence IN
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