The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-06-22
HoRAcE eKEELEY,s BOY.

Coma IN Amos Cummlngs TELLS 4 STORY About
the Cas VINO Had Muscle and Was From Nienra-
gua.
Amos Cummings, the New York
Suns congressmar, told Q couple Of
stories about the late Horace Greeley
which / do not remember to have
previously heard, Cummings was
GreeIey's night editor on the old Trih
une when sidney Howard Gay was
managing editor. He probably re-
menibered more interesting and origi-
nal tales c~oncerningthe old gentleman
than are recollected by all The rest o..
the early Tribune force put together.
stGreeley used to have great trouble
in securing office boys who We're salts
factory to him. If q boy vas bright
and smart there was probably
something wrong with him in
some other direction, and. so there was
frequent changes in this department.
OF the staff. One day Greeley came in
with a great big long. legged, thick-lip-
ped, bie-nosed fellow who had q xoice
like d bull, and who looked rs though
he had been knocked down and run
over by u OtCI 2IINIks AI1 AO1EAAR
was about twenty-had been to
Nicaragua with Walker, and had been
left. Greeley brought him up to my
desk and said: Amos ! can stand
these boys You have been employing.
So | have engaged one for myself.
Bub, this is Mr., Cummings. He will
tell you what you are to do Then
the old gentleman disappeared in his
private Office and ! gave the boy his
Instructions. He seemed ageaa.hea
ed sort Of fellow, but he was o big
chump, who really knew nothing at al.
One night, about a week later, Cree
lev came in and said to the lad, who
sat on guard by the door, 'Bub,
have got a lot OF writing to do, and
at 5 o'clockI have promised TO make
q specific a FIR. Mathew society.
Don't let anybody into my Office.
don't want to see any did buns to-
night The boy said all right, and
went to reading a newspaper. Pretty
| soon q man came in who had been
stamping the State in the Republican
interest, and who had always pre-
viously found his way to Greeley'a
private Office entirely unharred. The
boy caught him Just as he was open
ing the door. Said he;
"'Say. young teller, what do We
want?f n
ST want to see Mr.. Greeley
"'Well you can't do it, That's all
there is about tt, You can't do it.
~ cant heyl Well we'll see about
that, vs a 4
aAil right. I'll just about 60 yer.
And the long.legged Nicaragua boy
caught the stump speaker by the neck
swept up the floor with him Tor q few
minutes, rushed him ont into the en-
try and down the spiral staircase. A
few minutes later an old composition
whe4used TO set type with Greeley,
and who made tfS3excuse for many a
borrowed flyer, sailed into the room.
The boy didn't wait for him to speak
at all. He just seized the Intruder,
whirled him around the Office, over
the hle-table and against most OF the
desks, and sent him booming down
the staircase heels over head. Alter
that there vas a period ofpeaee, which
was brought to a termination by the
entrance Of Mr.. Henry Wilson, who
subsequently became Vice PRESIDENT Of
the United States. Mr.. wilson
had been stumpiug the State
of Indiana, and was going
through New York on his way to BosS
ton. Hewore the orst-lookingduste
] have ever seen. 1t looked as Il he hct1
ridden withit III the tender Just back
Of the engine and the fireman had
been sh6seling coal over him. As
some of you will remember, Mr.. Will
son was rather tall and very slender,
and when tired or heated his face grew
very red. As he approached Mr..
Greeley's door, that Nicaragua boy
rose up before him and said:
:" well What IN hi do you want7f
s'Mr, Wilson looked slightly sup
prised, hut stared the boy fixsdlY ia
the eye and said quietly. should
like TO see Dir. Greeley
= Mr.. Greeley won't see nobody.
You understand He won't see no.
body7'
but. said Mr.. Wilson quietly.
still cycling the boy with irmness, II
think he desires to SEQ me. You will
/ piiease take my name to him. o.
"0ver at my desk i couldhear every,
word that passed, and / was nearly
in q patoxysm OF internal laughter.
Mr.. Wilson's manner and his steady
glare made the boy weaken, and, alter
surveying Mr.. Wilson from head to
foot for a second or too. he said.
Well what is yCur bloody manner K
will take it in, but I don't believe he
will see you, Just the same.
mr.. Wilson told the messenger who
he was. and that raw-boned junction.
airy disappeared into the private Of
fee. Icould hear a long saik between
Greeley and the boy It was inpossi-
BILE to distinguish their words but
GreeIey's high falsetto and the boys
low, hoarse growl could be distinctly
heard. and from the length Of the talk
/ could see that there wasn't much az
q show for Wilson. Presently the boy
came out andsaid:
I told you SO. He won't see yer.
Now get out.
Mr.. Wilson happened at this innct-
ure to see me, and came over to my
desk. He said there must be SONS
mistake, and, as he was obliged to 60