The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-05-26

public business as al present. After that, II
such a time should ever come, he would see.
There wns a little argument by Mr.. Rco IN
favor Of it, aid an exchange of good wishes
between the high officials, and VIC bowed
ourselves out.
In the evening he drove around and asked
me to call with him upon a supreme court
justice whom he had never met, but from
whom he wished to evoke an article on
The Congestion Of the Court " There he
presented his wishes in the same straigtfor-
ward manner, and met with a very encour-
aging response
AS we drove homeward remarked it was
surprising that he had succeeded in bust
hess, having begun under sucn disadvan-
tages
"Howl' ne askei, in surprise.
Money" suggested.
"A fortune usually handicaps you lg men
! in the race IL is o poor fellows that win.
Eyes, often; perhaps Usually" he an
swered, but, you see, / never had too
| much"
threw out leading questions, and finally
| got INTEREST," fragments of his story.
How ca ne to buy the North .Ameri-
| can heCae0? We'd, it may amuse you to
| know tuat boJgat it to print my book
notices iul Before that | mad printed little
save these book revle rs, and as devel Jp-
! ing srong paSSlo at way. The paper
| was writing for sent back one of my coa-
| trlbutious. lnat maize me angry; for was
! young then-ouly %.
! II heard that he North american Re
! UielO was for sale, and | saw that t coul Int
! ,Av as it was tae run. Fne next tim |
vas in Bostoa / called James r. OsSood
! 10 whom was a stranger, a d asked about
| it, Yes he candidly told me, 1T is for
sale; it dose4't pay; it is expensive prop
erty; what will you give" [ told him 1
! dId Il know a lything about the condition
l.NF 4 a Nts1Fe
on it | would asder it.
"'Gtve me 5000 AID you can have it.
he said
- will think about it, | answered. "rhe
| price seems reas nab e, and | will let you
! know il n week Or two
"A week or two!' exclaimed he. I can't
put it off Y3n must tell me at once
livery we'll | said, / will go back to
Ne" York and let you know tne day after
| tomorrow
"'No, ! can't wait he persisted. 1T isn't
OF Importance enough. You must try it now
OF net at all.
"'Can you wait while go across the
street and get a check clsae1n | asked.
He laughed aud said be could wait for
that. l did Il. The big ReUietO was mi e.
went back to New YORK wondering what
SHOULD do with my elephant. 1t was pr b.
| lem hat worried me. The periodical |
found hal just about 1870 sub
| scrlbers The first newspaper notice of
ny purchase alluded to ine deri lively as
rafting around in toe chair of James Rus
sell Lowell
Il soon found that had something to do
esldes writing book notices. | male up
| my mind to combine breezy topic with
| weIl-known writers, and tried for months
! to catch tue public eye. And here bear in
mind that the No, III american does not
! ,ely on contributions, though 1t uses them.
be articles which have att ac-ed most at
| uentiOu have been directly invite and per-
sonaiiy solicited by me. The trenchant
| philippe Of Jerry Black on 'The Great Con-
| piracy (Hayes's electioA) and the discus
| son 1t excited made the first d cided hit.
! Black called b IS article The Great Fraud -
| but | fatty refused to print it under that
! tide, and Davil Dudley Field finally in
| duced him to change it. joan Sherman's
| article on re ,umptlon," also gave us
| boom, and the | gerSoll-GladsJone contro-
! versy brought us 1900 ubscribers in a
| single mouth. | weut to Engla id to get
Gladstone to take a had, and | had a de-
| igh,ful reception at his country home I'll
! tel you about it sometime"
Il have often wondered" said, Chow
! YOU managed to pay these big fellows for
! their services, Do they take money like
| mailer fryN
"Must OF them tell me plumpy how
much they wa t for their contributions,
| a I'd that suits me exactly, for | then know
what is expected. Now and then one re-
fuses to stpulate, but says pay whatever
| YOU wish to-. That is emba RAISING, 10 it
| leaves me no alternative to sending plump
! check on conjecture. Still, more seldom,
one absolutely declines t. take anythi e;
| this Is abs nlutely embarrassing, ut | send
! nIm piano or a painting or ct even with
! aim somehow so ne time. l shall get soma
| presents IN Paris this sumner
! "YoI mus, have some lively chases after
| copy" | sugge ted.
"Yes | have. Perhaps the livelies5 was
after Tom Scott. The Pennsylvania rail
road strike was in prog rs aud he had
| 1rOmsei ne an article on Silk s. 1t was
! publication day and the article had lot
come. / started on the ca 5 to hunt MIN up.
tie was not in Philadelphia. He was not
at home. | followed him to Pittsburg be
! depot was atire ana the bl3Zi g t DNn was in
the hands of mob. / found him in the
lobby of the hotel with a crowd bowling
| in front d around him. ! went up t.
hin and asked him for thai ar
ticle. He laughed and said he
he was otherwise temporarily engaged, and
ue added with seriousness, Rice, if You
want to avoid beng hurt, sta right by
net / laughed back st the absurdity of it,
and told MIN his vicinity see ned the un-
| safest place in the UAited S ates. But
didn't lose sight of him. | cam ba k east
n the car with hin next daf, went to his
! home with HIM, hauntei hi till he wrote
! tle article, aid teel seized it ald escaped
! o New York not much too lat. 1t made
TT
Inquired if the North Am sricun had
hal many protests on account Of Inger-
soils articles.
ono" he said "Now and then n few
regularly protest, and a few stop their 5 lb-
scriptions and then buy it. But Jne people
love fair pay, aad our or hoiox frie IDS
don't ohie t to = discussion if their side has
fun he ring"
as!le WAC was going to edit the North
! american in lis abse ice.
II am he said. ~ all e lit II from st.
! Petersburg by cable-.he first time that
such a thing was eyer attempted, Isuppo,e.
| have male firs,-rate arraugem .nts with
cable company and shan be ia constant
| co anu lea ion. Cable me any time. Be-
! re leaving | shall give you full particu-
/ lars. | believe that thu RsriclO can
not only be Kept up, bu. can actul " b.
improved by having the editor 1000 miles
/ from tue 10000 small Worries of the hui-
| ness Office w. A. CRDFFUr.
PHENOMENAL SHOWERS.