Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-04-15
WATTERSON'S WORK.
THE BEGINNING OF HIS CAREER As
A NEWSPAPER MAN.

Beginning at eIa n Week.
Il arrived in Cincinnati one clustering
winter night, a ragged, hungry stranger
| just out Of the rebel army, l had just enough
money to pay for a nights lodging. How
well remember wandering about the streets
of the city, wondering what the next day
would bring me l believed that had abil-
/ ity as journalist, and was satisfied that
if had an opportunity could prove it /
was in the act several times of entering the
different morning newspapers and applying
for work, but was SO down-hearted that
did not have the courage to do so. took a
good sleep that night, and did not get up
until late the next day. My case was a
desperate one, and felt that must secure
employment. never felt more determined
in my life felt as if could face the
sternest editor in the land without CULVER
In this frame Of mind | started out to make
tour of the various Offices At the first Office
the editor, in blunt way, told me that his
staff was crowded and then resumed his
work l visited all the newspapers with the
same result, except The Times Office That
paper had large job printing Office at
tached to it, which did great deal of theat-
rical printing l also noticed that the paper
had miserably written dramatic column
l called on Col Starbuck, the editor and
proprietor, and asked if there was any
vacancies ON his staff
80 here are never any vacanies on q good
paper, but there is always room for a good
man, said the colonel
BEGINNING AT s12 A WEEK.
4 shall never forget that reply, and it is
one have always made 10 applicants for
positions on The Courier-Journal told
Col Starbuck that / thought l could i'm
prove upon his dramatic column, and pro-
posed TO write it for nothing if he would give
me % per cent commission on all the print |
ing ana advertisements | secured from the !
theatres. He declined the proposition As
l was about TO leave he turned TO me and
said he would give me sl2 week to per- |
form that service What a change came |
over me. immediately felt myself rich |
told him would accept it He then said |
that must not feel offended if at the end !
of the week he found | did not suit and he |
dismissed me. ! knew | would suit, for |
knew the full extent of my abilities and /
told him that if | was not competent /
should consider 1t an ofense If he did not /
discharge me-
This was the first of the week. and / |
started in that day. l never undertook a |
task with more enthusiasm / attended the /
theatres every night Before the end of the
week Col Starbuck expressed his approval
On Saturday afternoon l went to the thea
tres to collect the money for printing and
advertising in The Times At the National
theatre, after collecting the money, was
handed an envelope addressed to me. Sup
posing it contained an item Of news or q
ticket, put it into my pocket unopened
At Pixies another envelope bearing my
name was presented me, and the same thing
occurred to me at Woods theatre When |
returned to the Office opened the envelopes
and found the ones presented TO me at the
National and Pixies each contained $40
The one received at Woods contained s.
told Col Starbuck the circumstances and
rendered him the money. He said that it
did not belong to him, and he would not &C
cept it ! said it certainly did not be-
long 10 me and that would not accept it
l returned the donations to the theatrical
managers They said the money had been
given in consideration of tho favorable no
tees had given their performance
Sol. Starbuck a short time atterward
made me managing editor. "-Was.erson's
Letter.
An Unpicturesaue Highway Ronber.
As for dakoits, they are exactly Ike the
SSulilS, Ni1ile are u I
neous set of Claude Duvals at large, the repre-
of the latter claims a nationality
and a certain method in his fighting, or rather
his reasons for fighting. The dakoit is a
highway robber wherever discovered, and
nothing more He may be a thug in
a wildly-aggrsssive thakore
OF Palitana, or totally unconventional
thief OF Camateepoora, but ne is dakoit all
the same In Burmah the dakoit does as
his brother in India does. He sallies out
with companion or two, and
waylays the mails or tho palkee carriage on
the jungle reads
He has no picturesqueness about his pro-
fession. he says: Stand and deliver"
and if he gets tho worst of the order he
takes it like a man, turns up in his py janis
10 tine moonlight, and bids a farewell to ex-
stence full of more profanity than grace
Of virtue The writer was once stopped by
a band Of dakoits near Aurangabad, in the
Nizam OF Hyderabad's country. "Toomara
paisa hum lie do, ek dunn cried the
leader ~Hamara paisa. hum Ike da do, /
replied, and shot the gentleman, who, with
the most polite Hin lostanee possible, fell on
his back. and said: Tine sahib is right; LET
nm pass The dakoit had Bot only realized
the argument Of force, but OF the inevita-
Die, for there We're three officers following
IN the tonga Immediately after mine.-For
,ign Letter.
Choral an Uncertain Treachcrous Drug
At recent meeting of the Cincinnati
OF Medicine the uses Of "chloral'
rs remedy were pretty thoroughly dis
,ussei- The experience OF the profession