The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-11-07

stomach affected his writing. He
loved to be in a minority. and spent
the later years of his lite in making
ready to conclude the republican par
ty. He supported Greeley in 1872,
but without effect, and after that he
seemed always to be trying to get even
with the party which had not adopted
his suggestions. Once at Washington
Bowles invited a number of persons to
a breakfast ON basis of each one
paying for his own food but Horace
White. who was one of the party. slip
ped ont and settled the whole bill,
though he had not made the break
fast. frequently met Bowles at Sara
toya. and he had droll sort of a way.
with queer suggestions in his talk.
Once l stopped over at Springfield on
purpose to see him. having been asked
to do several times, and as We walked
around the town looking at the i'm
provements | commended a new court
house.
"WelI," said he "do you suppose
such things will have any value in
that coming time when Victoria
Woodruff and the rest of US are going
to regenerate this world? Don't you
suppose that court house will become
effete 2"
He had q very pretty home at
Springfield, and his wife and con seem
ed dccile, gentle aeople, but the tired
and sick look of Bowles rather shad-
owed the place. Yet it was remarka-
BILE to see man publishing paper in
such little town attracting the At
tentisn that Bowles did. He was
much alta :hed to Tilden, whom be
believed to be really a great man,
with the best instincts of a refOrner.
TWO ACTIVE EDITORS.
A very remarkable man of this kind
was Major Rogers, the publisher of
the Boston Journal. who accumulated
one of the largest fortunes ever made
in newspapers. sometimes met him
on the road to Washington. He Was
q hard drinker; but he had force Of
and knew how to spend his
and did it literally. He made
the Journal one of the most refining
and satisfying of American papers to
ward the close of the war. The Bos-
i'm Herald afterwspd took q large
part of his constituency
/ knew Mr.. Swayne, one of the
founders and the principal spirit of
the Philadelphia Ledger. When l
was a boy in Philadelphia he would
meet me on Third street.
when he was excited by drink, and
would nearly break NV hack pulling
me to him, and I often slipped in
seeing him coming, that
he might 90 by. He was one of the
three persons who established the
Ledger, but the small occupation Of
boiling down items was not enough for
bis robust spirit, and having been one
Of the earliest promoters of the teie-
graph, he looked towsrd inventions as
q larger means both of usefulness and
Of wealth. He finally sold the Ledg-
er for small sum of money, not being
in a condition of body and mind TO ex-
ercise his usual sagacity in changing
it 10 meet the alteration In the cuIren-
~. 1t was a recent paper. SSayne
was afraid the skinny Philadel.
phians would not pay TWO cents for
the Ledger, and meantime paper had
gone up until every white sheet cost
more than one cent, and with circu-
alton of perhaps $4,000 copies, an
immense hole WAS being made in his
fortune. If he lost half a cent on each
copy Of this circulation it would
amount to S4)0 a day, or 2.4O0 q
week. or nearly 1925, 900 a year. The
new parties who bought the paper put
me cent ON tire price. and the people.
conservative, had learned
What the imitation of currency meant,
md knew that two cents was about
he same thing as one formerly.
A TALK WITH STEPHENS.
] have alluded to an interview that
wrote with Alexander III. Stephens
my first. The circumstances were
hese. Being in Philadelphia one
lay. NJ. Harding. OF the Inquirer,
aid to me: Cant you go up and
write US one Of these interviews, such
g they are publishing nowadays, with
dr. Stephens hear that he is in
ne city publishing hook"
/ started for the book publishers
'fiice with reporter, wondering how
should be able to make Stephens
ak. or how | should introduce my
elf on such an impudent errand as
Interviewing them seemed to me. /
concluded that if Stephens was pub
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