The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-12-29
BARNES GREELEY.
Cosby Chat About the Great New York
Editors Only Brother.

tOsstVy CnHt ABOUT tne GreAt New YORK
Editors Only Brothcr.
Five miles west Of this place, near
the little village of Columbus, in an
old, eather-beaten frame house, the
only brother of the great editor, Horace
Greeley, lives the life OF hermit.
Barnes Greeley, who is now nearly
eighty years of age, has lived on
this farm for the past sixty
years. He is known far and wide,
in Erie and Warren counties, on
account of les family and his many
eccentricities, and because of his never.
falling good nature. his abundant and
unaffected warm-heartedness, and his
keen, though somewhat erratic, in
telligence. The old farmer is tall and
spare, but of powerful build, and is
noted for his slovenly dress and his
antipathy for water, both internally
and externally He says that water
taken into the pystem in immoderate
quantities is fully as injurious as
whisky. In his slovenliness of at
tire may doubtless be found family
characteristic which, in Horace
Greeley, had been too often attributed
by his critics TO weak affectation tor
the purpose of attracting public atten-
tion.
The farm on which Barnes Greeley
has lived so long is u large and fertile
one, but 1t has a look of desertion and
neglect. He seems to care to make
only living out of what would have
made n thriftier man Independently
rich long ago. 1t was on this farm that
Horace and Barnes Greeley were boys
together, and it was here that Horace.
who had gone TO the great East 10 learn
the printers trade, came sometimes to
spend vacation, and even III those
days the yearnings of Horace's am
bition were plainly shown. In their
tramps through the forest he would
confide to his brother his dreams OF
future greatness. Long afterward.
when Horace Greeley became a great
editor and a man whose name was
known on both sides the Atlantic, he
did not forget his brother up in the
wilds of Pennsylvania. One day he
sent for Barnes to come to New York
and made him his travelling agent and
then gave him a place on his editorial
staff, and offered him various positions,
from all of which the farmer retired in
turn, and eventually went back to his
farm disappointed man.
"Do you want to know why re-
turned homer" he still asks his neigh
bors sometimes. "Well, I'll tell you. !
wasn't fit to fill any place l would ac-
cept. so came home. I preferred to
be king among hogs rather than be a
hog among kings" Barnes Greeley's
antipathy to water is not whit
stronger than his dislike to whisky.
He is a strong prohibitionist, and ad
vocates the doctrine of "no whisky or
free whisky" His present good health
he attributes in great measure to the
fact that he never uses tobacco
and always abstained from whisky.
Although remarkably we'll preserved
physically for n man of his years, Mr..
Greeley is convinced that he is APP
proaching his second childhood, and
figures out by some mathematical sys-
tenn of his own that in fifteen years his
mind will become n blank, and that
five years later he will die at the exact
age of one hundred years. He has
never married. and is the last repre-
sentative of the older branch o. the
Greeley family. Cory (Pa.) Cor. CHI
ca0o Herald