The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-08-01
GEORGE W. cHlLDs.
New York Iourualist.l

is certainly the most generous and whole souled editor and owner of a newspape in the world. No worthy journalist O journeyman printer when in need eve applied to him and was refused. A yea or two ago MT. Childs saw that one of hi old editors was worn out. and that hi: work lacked the polish that had alway characterized it. He called him into hi sanctum one morning and said:
 You have woi ked for me forty years You have always done your work honest ly and acceptably. ] am now going tt retire you on full salary. Take your wifi ani children, go into the country and en joy yourself. Come or send to the offic, every Saturday and draw your salary Hereafter your time, as we'll as your sal ary, is your own.'
 "The old editor overwhelmed Mir Childs with thanks and departed. Or the succeeding Saturday he went to thu counting-room and the cashier refused tc pay him his salary.
 "'Wait,' he said, and I'll go and sex Mr.. Childs about it.
 He went to Childs, and Childs told him to pay the man for weeks services "'tBut he is no longer on the paper, the cashier suf gested.
 "That makes no difference,' Mir Chids remarks, pay him his salary as long as'he lives
 '' But, Mir. Childs,' broke in the cash fer, ( do you know this man is worth over three hundred thousand dollarsr
 q" hope he is,' Mir. Childs res bonded It speaks we'll fer him. The fact that he is worth that money is no reason why should not gay him his salary after his forty years of faithful service. If he had squandered his money in rum or dissipa- tlon yoa would have said that it would be all right to retire him on salary be- cause he had no money. His prudence and thrift deserve at least an equal re- ward. Pay him his salary as long as he lives, and say no more about it.
 The old editor died three months af- terward, leaving four hundred thousand dollars to his wife and children, but hts salary was paid up to the day of his death.
 Another instance of MT Childs' kind ness to his employees is shown in the case of man who was employed on the Led- ger when MT Childs first bought it. He was good workman, but a noted drunk ard. When MT. Childs assumed control he went to him and said: Mr,Childs, are you going to keep me on the paper at my present salaryT
 :" What are you gettingT Mir. Childs asked.
 "' Fifteen dollars a week. the man re- piled.
 "'T will double it on one condition, , his employer said; that is, that you shall never drink another drop of rum as long as you are in my employment
 "The man accepted the proposition. He afterward became a we'll known tenn perance lecturer in Philadelphia, al. though he complained bitterly when ad- vertised as reformed drunkard. Childs kept an eye on him, and he also has just been retired on a salary. Whenever he desires to do any special work for the Ltager, he is at perfect liberty to do SO. Meantime he draws his salary regularly and his bills of expenses are never ques- toned. He, also, is said to be wolth between three and four hundred thou sand dollars.
 "Ano,her instance of Mir. Childs' be- nevolence was shown in the case of Col onel John w Forney. As the twilight of life approached Forney became very poor His good heart had been strained to the utmosi tension by pretended friends, and he was barely able to make a living. One day he met Childs.
 "l am getting old,' the colonel said, and owe good deal of money to per. sons not able to lose it If you could aid me in paylng my debts. it would make the latter part of life comparatively hap py,'
 you owe,' Childs replied, and let me know in the morning.
 "The next day Forney reported that he owed about twenty-five hundred dol lars. Ch,lds sat down to write check for the money, when Forney said:
 (" Childs, you might as we'll make it five thousand while you are about it.
 "The good-n atured editor filled out the check for $s 900 and passed it to Forney Within week the colonel wrote him letter, saying that he had no idea how happy the receipt of the money had made him.
 M sAOh uOWy AC WAOeUt OW0 SSAs to anybody in the world, and am twen- ty-five hundred dollars ahead
 1.-The colonel, with prehensile friend ship, had accepted the generous mans check as gift, and not as loan.
 Not long afterward the colonel died. He let his family in comparative poverty. On learning of this Mir. Childs remem- bered that while VT. Forney was clerk of of the house of represent atives at Wash ington, be had paid $50 GOO into the pub lie treasury on account of the dedication of one ot his subordinates. MT. Childs went to Samuel ] Randall, told him of the situation of Colonel Forney's family, and asked him to see whether the money that had been paid to the government by Colonel Forney on account of the detal- cation could not be returned. MT Ran. dall investigated the case. It appeared that Colonel Forney, while technically responsible for the dedication, was no, actually to blame. Through Randall's influence congress passed bill return. ipv the monev fo Eoynsv,e familv vvith