The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-11
JOHN HENRY is MARRIED.
Frank Concludes the story Published He
Weeks Ago.

Frank Concludes the story Published a Few
Weeks Ago.
EDITOR AND FRIENDs-Well, at last the
book is finished, and so also are John
Henry troubles as single man.
0'Tool has had hard time Of it, | tell
you. He couldn't get John Henry to
write more'n a page day since
he got TO goin' back to Jones again.
And that kind of work to a man
Of O'Tools digestion is simply
agravatin. O'Tool had give up to John
Henry & good deal in this story, had let
him change the color OF the heroines
hair and eyes and make her little Dit
heavier in weight. and that last is saying
a good deal for O'Tool. for though he is 4
big man himself, he don't like that kind
OF women. One day 0ToOl shut John
Henry up in the grocery and told him
now to 90 TO work. He'd Just give him two
days to finish up that book in. And John
Henry went to work and wrote IN way
that would make your head swim to see.
And 0'Tool stood out by the door and
wouldn't let one of the boys in, or any
body else, for that matter. In fact, bust
ness stopped square OF in town them two
DAYS, but John Henry got her done all the
same at the end OF the given time. And
then he wanted 10 send II right OF 10 the
,ScribJlers' Hagaziae But O'Tool sat down
on a sugar bsr'l and talked to John Henry
awhile, and this is what he said. Saws he:
NOW, Mg. Sanders. you jist listen to me.
I'm an older man than you. / know the
SbrbbJsr is heightened, and pays awful
well, too. But then, my boy, the editor of
that would never accept that story of
yourn, an your postage would be wasted,
and maybe the MSS. be lost like az not a
comm back The Scribbler prints the
high necked, long sleeved kind OF
stories, the kind that sometimes ii you
want to know what the characters mean
you've kind OF got to guess at It by
the way they raise their eyebrows
and wiggle their ears. You can't expect
10 gst rich all at once In literature. No
body that ever was anybody rs a writer
evei did, that know OF. Read Mr.. Car
lyle's history, Mr.. Sanders, and see what
hard time he had years and years before
he could get publishers and people 10
know what he knowed hisself, that he
was a great writer.
Burns too, he came pretty near dying
in jail, hadn't friend come to his rescue
in time with 60 note; and Dickens, my
DOH, tNSu DlC4CnS ri Ilc utCh EApll w q
q paper too poor to pay for il, and sneaEIed
off by himself to read it after it came out.
Just you see go glad to see it in print And
Tennyson, YOU know how great he IL, Mr.
Sanders well, England had to put him on
q pension before she ever got the best out
o. him. She had woke up, as it were. at
last 10 know that she'd about starved
her great men TO death. An she knew a
man don't do his best work with poverty
gnawin' at his vitsls."
We'll" John Henry said, 'that would
just suit him to be put on pension too.
he needed one mighty bad"
O'Tool says YES, that's so, but yon
must write some first and let the country
know what's in You to write, then I'll see
about the pension The Powder Horn
Gazette here at home is good enough one
to start in other papers will copyit Then
it'll spread"
The Powder Horn Gazette is weekly
paper we have down here, The Office is
some in debt they saw. And the printer
gets on high old lonesome once in a
while. but taking it all the year around
we get about ffty-two papers to the year,
countin' in Sunday special which We
have once in a while, when there's more
fights intown than usual or Bill Slocum
gets into town of a Saturday afternoon
(Bill picks up lots of stories and items as
he travels around that makes mighty good
readinO and hands in his news TO the
editor. told the editor one day that /
knowed Bill was born reporter, and asked
him why he didn't hire him. He said:
"Bill never did nothin' he was was hired
to do. and he guessed he'd get more news
as it was out of him." and reckon he was
about right there.
O'Tool went down and saw the editor
about printin' the story, and he kind of
kicked over it, said the printer was just
some" and he'd very likely object
to it. Blu, O'Tool said he'd subscribe for
the paper for six of his kin folks that
lived down in Polk county, and he'd also
snare a counie of DAVIS and ace how many