The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-28

III Va
when BARLEY walked through Union
square with his last SIS in his pocket.
cudgelling his brains for the material
Tor q new play to keep him going on his
erratlc course. Yet at The same hou-
three first class theatres were raising
their curtains On plays written by him,
winch drew an average Of a thousand
dollars q night into each house. Not q
cent OF interest did the genius who had
originated these paying ideas have in
his work. Those who had paid ridicu-
lousy small sums for the manuscripts
were reaping the great harvest of dol
lars these original ideas brought forth.
That night Campbell got an idea. I'll
sell no more plays" said he.
What will You do, then?' asked his
friend.
I'll have them played myself" he
replied.
He stuck to his resolution. He had
some trouble at first. A star who took
q fancy to Bartley's work wanted to buy
1t outright in the usual way, and was
indignant when the author proposed to
hire the star for the play instead OF
sacrificing the play and himself to the
star. The scheme worked and genius
ceasing to be a genius and becoming a
business man, began to grow rich by
merely reaping the fruits of his labor.
The genius who first discovered the
fact that butter could be counterfeited
successfully by manipulation ofscraps
from the butchers Block, is poor devil
living in a Jersey howell now, while for
tunes are being made on oleomargarine.
He was paid for tho idea, he says, and
was content at the time to take 5000
for it.
When the survivors of the Army of
Virginia came North this Spring, and
several of them were entertained by the
army ofthe Potomac veterans, the writer
met a Yirginian named Lick, at whose
residence an army corps commander had
made his headquarters during the winter
of 1862. Lick, who was really a guerilla,
regularly enlisted figured during the
winter as an honest noncombatant, stay
at home farmer, and did some good
spying service for his side; but that is
immater1al now-it was all forgotten
and forgiven in the touching of glasses
and clasping of hands at a grand Army
campfire. The guerilla Johnny" is
reconstructed and the triumphant
"Yank" is satisfied. As this Lick stood
in front Of the Fifth avenue hotel one
day during these reconstruction festiv-
tiles, a tramp staggered up to and spoke
to him, and after q brief confab gave
the ragged. bloated object a $40 green
back, and he futtered away around the
corner of Twenty third street.
Don't you know him ?" said the reb,
returning to us.
Know him" What do you take us
for-tramps?" we calculated laughing
ly.
"Well. he was one of your men, sab,
replied the Senthren with q malicious
little smile.
"One of our men?"
Eyes; he was an orderly on the staff
of your general who stopped so long at
my house. He was an inyentor-a
genius"
aOhi That fellow that would get
drunk?"
Eyes. You remember him now.
Well, the general didn't mind his
drunkenness. He kept him at head
quarters"
eyes. because he was handy End
adroit.
aI know. He used to invent things.
| For instance. he invented a ~corkscrew
that pulled q cork without any effort
Tt was considered a toy by him, but the
general had an agent and partner Sc
cure a patent for himself all the same.
And then in one Of his crazy drunken
moments the orderly made ar ingenious
walking doll"
"And that was patented, too?"
"Yes-by the general, through a
third party. And the genius kept il
up all Through that winter. He invent.
| ed q new cavalry bit, a novel holster,
d trick cigar case, and numerous me-
chanicaltoys."
HAlI of which were patented
by the general"
"Well, what them"
ST lost sight OF you Yanks in the SO
cial circle when the spring campaign
opened, and didn't meet the orderly
again until a couple Of yeers ago when
he reeled into my store In Richmond,
and introduced himself TO me. He was
strapped-hadn't q dollar, and was
tramping to New York. Every time /
come to this city he meets and strikes
me-
"And the general"
"sHe's among you still. He's rich;
away up at the top Of the tree--a mil
lliionaire-soidier, aud consequently :
great patriot"
"He has made his fortune c1 the In.
MENTIONS of the orderly?"
"Just so, the money keeps pouring
i'm
aAnd fha oenins who conceived these