Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-11-06
SKETCH OF M. QUAD"
ONE OF THE MOST UNIQUE AND GENUINE OF OUR HUmoRIsTs.
Beginning Ills Career by Being Blown Up on a steamboat-Three Noted Char or ssSanetutn"

ter, of Hi. CreatIon--In His "Den'
 or "sanetum-"
 c. B Lewis better known as M. Quad is perhaps the most unique and genuine humorist this country has pro duced, excepting only Artemus Ward and Ho.ea BiglOw.
 sM Ouad7 is not a humor ist -artist"-a boss mechanic who manufactures jokes as a carpenter does packing boxes, with saw and iack-plane and much emulation O. precipitation He is naturally and spon- :ane0usly funny. Humor Sushes from him like champaign from an uucorSed bottle, bubbliug and eifusive. and drencl- Ing us. whether VIC will or not. with laughter And there is wisdom with his wit-strong, homely common sense mixed with a racy, unctuOUs humor which makes his wisdom us grateful tO our taste Gs whale oil IS 10 the palate uf an Esqui- mau He is not product of the soil. with a local flavor He is of universal relish, as is witnessed by the wide pOpu- larity of his newspaper contributions.
 BROWNING oF Ills CAREER It is not generally known when or where he was born, nor Is it a matter Of much consequence since his career did not begin till he was blown mp. some fifteen y-ars ago. on an Ohio river steamboat He is. perhaps. the only example of a man who has been lifted into fame by being tOSsed a hundred feet into the air. and coming down. more dead than alive. Co tell the story. He did this. Sanding at his print CTS case. when he was SD far recovered as to limp about, he put into type How It Feels To Be Blown Cp.' and the whole west burst into daughter. That laugh ma.ie M Quad famous. He was then transferred from the cOmpo-ing room to the editorial department. and ever since short extracts from his writings have been copied into every journal through out the country.
 About ten years ago he inVented-Or rather created--His Honor and ~Bijah. !" and Brother Gardner. of the -Lime Kiln Club"-characteTs totally dissimilar, but each as natural. original. individual, and ludicrOus as any in American literature. His Honor presides over a police court, anl makes sage reflections upon men an d things as they come into his field of view. Brother Gardner is a shrewd and quaint gentleman of color. who has all the idioms and characteristics of his race, but Is not a burlesque on our colored fellow citizens; he handles his own people gently, but satirzes the fOibles, frailties and weak nesses of the whites inimitably. His say ings might be termed explosive wisdom the reader is sure to imbibe a wise thought but it is certain to explode with him. -Artemus Ward created one character; M Quad has given birth to three, and each one has, during period oi ten years. given delight Co millions
 The man is precisely what We are led to expect from his writing& He Is by turns His Honor, -BIjah" and Brother Gard ner. with the dry humOr and quaint wis dom that is peculiar tO each character. -If there Is an Odder man than he in the country said a Detroit gentleman to me not long ago. we would like to have him sent along with the circus.' His looks. his manner, even the tones of his voice, he writes, and always without any seem ing reconciliation.
 Al HOME IS HIS "DEN.-
 His aden.s as he call. his @sanctum," in an upper story of E6e Free Press build. ing is curiosity shop EHed with odd mementOes and knick- knRcks. t.ere Is a bit Of rope that helped to hang a n.gE derer, and pair of shackles of the old slave time: there are bullets from Gettys- burg, pOwder-d dasks from the Mcrrimac. and swords. sabers, muskets, and shot and shell from a score of battle-ields. while around the walls, side by side with portraits of Sheridan and Custer an busts of Grant and Lee, are pictures of dozen of the most noted criminals. Bu the oldest thing in the room Is . slender man of about lO, with close cropped gray hair. heavy mustache. keen. intent eyes. aud an earnest, somewhat eager express lon. who sits at an old-fashioned table. and looks up with a smile of welcome as q stranger enters his apartment This is M. Quad known among his personal acquaintances as C. B. Lewis; and he works away at that table eight hours in day. writing at high pressure, and now and tken seeking relaxation in little merri- EIent with -Bijah7 and Brother Garl- uer. for his best work k done as relief from the daily drudceTy of journalism.
 The reyiscrs have not been able tO amend the text: Woe unto you when ill men shall speak well of you and ii 1t iJ is Co be taken literally. M. Quair Is in hsd way. as all his acquaintances unite in saying that he is temperate. social, do mestic, kind hearted, s lover of las friends 4liA A uAAtE ol uotuuN- lle i-s NA1ns they say. open handed. and SO given tO charity that. though imposed upon seven times in a day by fraudulent mendicaEcy, he again seven times in a day eu.pties his pockets to the pleaGinss of distress. He Is also said tO be modest. and 10; at all pulled up by the fact that inc has a weekly audience of a million. nearly oae-half of whom are matter-of-fact Euglishmen, who take him wiih their bcess;cak and ale. as a sure help to healthy digestion. He l. spoken of as odd and eccentric, and that he may be. but l incline tO tine op.n- ion that this peculiarity is due Co the fact that Nature produced him in one of her -enial moods, when she would do the world kindly turn by bestowinc on il q -enile soul. who should do us good by spreading for us a wholesome feast of mingled wit and wisdom.-Harper's Mag .ZiEc.