Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-05-12
OF BAD HANDWRITING.
II Is the Badge and the Herr
tage of Greatness.
HORACE GREELEY FAMOUS
AS One CT the Worst Writers Thai
Ever Held Pen In Hand.
DIR. SAMUEL JOHNSON'S ScRAw1


cipherers of Had Handwriting.
To write llleglbly seems to be
badge and heritage Of greatness
Few great men have been able TO wfltc
no that "he who runs may read a
glance at any autograph collection
proves this. In the show cases In the
Astor and LenoN libraries In New
York city. there may be seen many
valuable autograph letters ana manu-
scripts. These are all labelled-othor-
wise the visitor would be at sea as 10
who the author Of most of them hau
been. There hangs In one OF the OF"
book stores in the same city an
autograph letter of the great Dr. sam
uel johnson. photographer ana friend
Of Goldsmith, a Philadelphia lawyer
and the lnwyers Of that city are sup
posed to possess unusual faculties IN
that direction might be able to de-
cipher the autograph. but as FOR max
inE out the body OF the letter NOBODY
save truntiu8 Donnclly, with ms IA
NOUS cryptorram. could do tho lop'
Horace Greeley In famous as # writer
Of good English md Of horrible pen
mnnship. Innumorablr stories arc told
about that extraordinary acrnwl winch
roacmhlcd hen scratches or the Hero
RlyphicH ON Cleopatra'9 Needle,
bad writing has been turned TO good
account MT times by unsCrupul 'iA Ter
sons. thus, clerk used his .nlNlrt q
notice at Dismissal Rs a tcsiim MAJ oil
his many virtues, and his new cup'y e.
grs. unable to make anything yls' "I
the note, accepted n ava such In an
other instance. nftpr the death Of "a
creditor, hlH note demanding pay
mont Of n large debt was produced uh
q receipt. tho writing being sp illcE'hl.
that only the name and amount could
bc mndc out by experts.
A living writer boasts that ne never
had anything rejected, except 10y com
posiluta; but printers sometimes mako
heroic efforts TO read the scraWls ON
a sheet of paper.
1t wua once said, though the story
needs confirmation, that % hrIllilut
Compnsitlr In the North "Rct up uu o.
lpgihly written lynl"rottu, but 20 the
ustunishmout of the Journalist IL WIS
ON a subject entirely different from the
one lac had written u H., however a
fact that certain able Journalist owes
hts first advancement To ia" bold Int
pruvomoutg he ventured to make In an
editors articles
Yet another gtory Of editprR' hand
writing ia worth repontiug In this
cnEr three competitors could ut one
time read the editors copy but on
Inc writing hocnmc worse, two Of
tbntn ragtf.nod tho tpsIt Tho r.mHID-
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words but one DAY he went into the
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sraas,,isanert Of uiiterntes
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