The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-07-20

tney nave taken the bait, are apt TO
gorge themselves. ] have had, under
instructions of course from my en-
ployers, to write one blessed woman
ten tlms before it paid. Generally
however to men, one letter sutfices.
ana that's the end of it. Now, nv
patrons who are in this business, +
must say, are mostly very uneducated
people, as bright as can be as to
schemes, and laying ont the plans, and
constructing the scaffoldings, but I'M
able to do the filling in There are ex-
ceptlons though, but as most of them
would display their ignorance, and as
they are not over particular about hav-
ing Their handwriting known, | am
their correspondent. y
How are you paid for it?''
For an original letter, whether it
fetches ornot, | get fifty cents; after
The 1rst copy, ten cents. L have made
as high as 80 day with it,
But" ventured to remark, "this
seems to be very dirty work.
Its Just according to how you look
ut 1T. Here he took another glass of
VINE. . would much rather write q
prospectus, and maybe it would be bet
ter pay you might recommend me for
that kind of work But if letters of
the character l write, (the begging let
ter, you have no idea how powerful ]
am III that line,) may sometimes not be
regarded In the most favorable LIGHT,
l consider them as set off by my reso-
lutions."
What is that 2" | inquired
You see, [ am pretty we'll known
about the corner groceries, my clubs,
and there | am thrown In more or less
with politicians IT has been mighty
slack that way with me lately, however,
but 1t used to be a great field There
is ward meeting, or meeting of any
k1nd-of course L am in attendance
and committee on resolutions is form.
ed, or somebody has to have ready,
sprung for the meeting. a regularly
hashed-up set of resolutions. They all
know me. Bless you, / have attended
meetings the very same day of precise
ly the most adverse character, have
made both sets of resolutions. and
have poeketed my $50 for them,
without counting on the liquor
| thrown in. In fact, without any pride.
for the time has long gone past when /
took any interest IN my own literary
productions, they were quite as good
as anybody else's, and, what is more,
strictly grammatical. ] have often
seen them copied with the most eulo-
glstlc. comments, in many of the leading
papers. L can make them adapted to
all circumstances. Ihave often thought
OF making whole series of them as an
appendix to some book on parliament
tary proceedings, somewhat iii the
'ready-letter-w writer style. Just a
slight modification here and there would
suffice, and act as safety valve fol
most any kind of popular ebullition,
whether Tor temperance, political, OF
labor movement. 1t Is wonderful
what soothing effect the word resolv-
ed, IN big capitals, has when heading
an empty sentence. 1t is like n big
general preceding meagre retinue OF
crippled soldiers. You don't see any
thing amlss IN the resolution business,
do you "
g must confess ] do not, but are
You not afraid of beng implicated with
the principles in these-you will ez-
cuse me-swindling letters? ?"
He laughed. "Why, you couldn t
catch them if you tried | even don't
know their real names. | don't seek
the business-they come to me- | don't
particularly care for the business; but
| must live somehow. | have thought
sometimes that if man would make a
specially of writing tailor's putls, only
TO begin with, and get his name up for
1T, III time he might have quite large
round of trade, and the business might
develop INTO something quite good.
There must be thousands of people in
New Iork-quite correct and honest
J people, who know they can't write ten
I lines of English and who want to show
up their goods through advertisements
in the leading paper, who might en-
ploy me. | have been thinning over it
| a long time"
Ought you not then, in order to bring
yourself better before the public, to
advertise yourself in the capacity of al
Observation-Disclosures ~
Yes, he said, "that would be the
only way to do it. | will think the adj
vertlsement over" and saying this he
left me. have since then been wait
ing to see this advertisement in the
papers, but it has not yet appeared
have, though, acquired some knowl-
edge OF what correspondent is, but
must confess [ wish no further acquaint-
auce with No. 81.