The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-03-30
How sILL NYE WORKS.

A Talk Concerning One 81 the Most
Popular Funny Men ~ this Day.
TX. Marvel says: "a man asks me 10
write something; he might as wen ask
the skies 10 RAIN Bfu Nye says. stm YOU
want me to write just tell ME to write
something and then let me alone.'7
He generally keeps q supply Of some
twenty subjects pretty well in hand that
can DO written up on short notice He
keeps a note book just like the rest, .
literary rag bag tinto which lots and lots
goes IN, and nothing was ever yet known
to come OUT He thinks there IS q fortune
In store for the mar who invests manu-
scripts with some property Ike a magnet
that by passing them over the rubbish Of
a note book will attract to themselves
just what belongs,
He cannot write lin order. He has
attempted a few times to write by meas
ure, so many words, so much pay, such a
length, such a subject. ssYhy, you might
as well pack me down into my trundle
bed and tell me TO sleep. i can feel tho
cramp In my limbs yet He cannot
even write under headings, as his subject,
like a stick ia water, IS apt To turn an
sorts of crooks and elbows before he gets
to the bottom.
One OF The Worlds staff brought him
o piece Of his manuscript the other day,
his thumb resting on a spot Of IL that WIS
bursting with laughter. "For heavens
sake, Bill, how did you ever get this
turn on thatP Did you sit down IN cold
blood and manufacture II, or did It come
on you all Of a sudden2's 1.-THE pen was
half through the joke before / saw Il,
said he.
He never rewrites an article BIZ any
sNhonra ofkor tnforlf~oo ra~& 54wI
doubles up, but the 0 goes 10 the or
fee just that way. II all comes Just
about gs he wants it, faster than he can
write it, He sometimes has tcsstop TO
spear q word which IL ~careening about III
vacancy, but never an expression. Ee
must finish one article while ii that par
ticular mood, 1t is useless to try to re-.
cali it ia any particular shape IL inter.
rupted, and he has lost much yalaable
matter In this way. He intends makdngn
study Of more continued writing, bur
breads the attempt.
On his frst writing he used ahigh desk,
but later on, finding that height absO-
lutely necessary 10 composition deliber-
ately broke himself Of the habit BY writ
ing on his knee, which now constitutes
his desk on all ordinary occasions. He
uses a little pencil, likes q very line pee
point. He makes the finest copy Of any
writer he knows except one. he hates
proof reading, and says d man has to suf-
fer so little nowadays by mistakes, owing
to the excellent proof work done by the
newspapers, that be had much rather sns
fer that 'little'' than read che proofs 50
long"
Much greater facility has come to him
by practice. Also no has 4 consciousness
that there il . marked Improvement iu
the pith and finish Of his work. IN fills
he Is supported by the opinions Of his best
friends, who are always prompt TO give
helpful criticism, : and by the distasto ho
now has for his earlier efforts, some IL
which are quite unpalatable To him now
He has no fear whatever OF srunningSR
or becoming stale, as he does sakclam "a
create, only 70 cl0ihe old subjects az Nr
ing interest In new form, and this can
walk side by side with humanity Just az
long as II or he lives. He has written n
all only about twelve years.
He gives bis best mind work 10 hts
every day friends, saving nothing because
it Is more valuable written. Before writ
ing he was an inimitable story teller and
joke miiker Of that delicious troe ghat
shows the fun only with lis eyes. The
only reason that lie Is less humorous now
IN conversation than In hts writing Is on
the principle OF turning over on the
other side TO rest a weary muscle. The
humorist, az the comedian, must turn 70
''the grave for relaxation Fannie Ed.
gar Thoraas fl Inter Ocean.