The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1885-10-15
Horace Greeley.

'tWcll. well, here is volume that is
| becoming quite rare these days." eA.
claimed; q bock-worm in 4 secondhand
! book store the other day rs his eye fell
on a worn and musty tome. "What
Know About Farming" well every.
body knows this is the book written by
Horace Greeley way back in the COS.
Perhaps the rising generation may be
excepted, rs The book is now out Of
print and VIII be curiosity in hall
score years hence. At one time it was
pretty extensively read. 1t is difficult
to say, however, that much or any
benefit was derived from its perusal. y
Yes" retortcu the party addressed,
'iiorace WAS = great man in his time.
1t is not SO very long since he has en-
tered eternity, yet his name is now
hardly ever mentioned. 1t was ever
thus. MANS deeds. be they good OF
bad. they do not remain long fresh aft
er the author is gone. Occasionally a
fash Of his wit is repeated, line from
his sayings is borrowed. but it does
not induce posterity in The least in re-
lacmbering. much less in reverencing
his memory. During tho forty odd
years that Horace edited the Tribune
every editorial. every farm article.
every news item, every commercial
paragraph. AID every advertisement
which :,,pcared IL the paper W.: cred
itesi TO bin h.- many OF his readers anil
adin..c-s. People forgot, Or did not
take tha time to think. that it vas n
p..ysic@, iinro.sibiiity for the prolific
AMI lrc>atiie Horace 20 wri:e even
half of the editorials that arnaarc;l,
while his di=G;.isItiors Oh 'iivw to
Plant S,;u: .l.., How 20 Rsise Gu
cumbocs,' or How t. Destroy the
Festi!e i.;ctie. wuro rot so very num-
erous. Grceicy, when writing about
agriculture, always gave the How
part much prominence"
''Ycu seem to be well posted on
Horace" remarked the book-worm by
way of comment to the second gentle
man. ''Why, yes; 1 must confess that
! know q great deal about tie phiIoso-
uher. Before and during the best part
of tic war labored at the case at the
Tribune oni;e. aad on several occa-
siors set up his c1ry. Il you have
the lime can relate an incident about
Old Hcracc that has never been print
eu. IL was just previous to the war
and when Horace was an amateur
farmer tn:it the event am about to re-
late occurred. One day letter came
to the office bearing the following cab
alistic letters: Il. G. n. 7. This is all
that was on the enre.o,.e except the
postmark, which showed that the letter
/ I
letter, but il was not n letter, for on
opening the envelope not a scrap of
paper was ious,,: inside, only a crum-
pied 81 note irc:n some Ohio bank. In
those days letters were sometimes not
prepaid, and this was not; consequent
" duc-bill was attached 70 the mis-
sive showing that the suin Of 5 cents
was to be collected. Mr. Greeley
promptly paid the 8 cents. Who could
be the sender. 1t puzzled the philoso-
pher just little Only. Such doings
can only be placed to the credit of Bill
Reynolds Glused Gir. Greeley. Bill
always had idiosyncracies, and when
he had a truck farm out in Orange
county would call, and not finding me
in the sanctum would place q dollar
I'LL 1ol tiiS SuooCiiJtiou uuccl ~ paper
weight on my desk and leave. Bill
told me he was going out west to try
his luck
1.-The paper was mailed to William
Reynolds, Lawrence, Kan, according
to Mr.. G. .'s direction. and upon investi-
cation it was found that Greeley's sur
mise was correct Bill Reynolds was
the right party. In those good old
times we did not have SO many rail-
roads nor fast-mail trains aud the like,
but man could mail a letter without
q stamp and put only four letters on
the envelope and it would reach its
destination. Try this experiment now
and your letter will go direct to the
dead-lettcr office. Too much red tape"
sighed the typo as ne reached for
volume on the high shelf bearing the
title: ''Is Life Worth Living Forp' -
st, Louis ifeDU6iican