The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-11-18
GENE FIELDS DEATH
Sets Arp to Illuminating on the Un-
certainty OfLife.
THE YOUNG AND LOVELY DIE
While the Old are Allowed to Remain.
Some "reminiscences of Grady.
How He Got an Ad-

on. what n pity OF it: Eugene Field IS dead
Mbeu everybody loves a man 1t does seem
hard that he should die. Just IN MS prime
and getting ripper, purer, mellower as years
rolled on. We of the south had learned 10
love him for ne was gentle and kind 10 US
He loved Grady and Grady loved him.
They are together now somewhere. won
der how their spirits met and what they
said. It IS hard on the south 70 lose TWO
such friends. They were of the same age
lacking few months. Love, kindness,
tenderness Of heart are redeeming traits
in human nature, and they had them.
1 was reading Wallace Reeds pleasant
"Reminiscences Of Henry Grady in last sun
days paper aud II carried me back TO the
hard days when Henry, Ike Fields. was
struggling against fate to make his paper
"a success. The merchants had not then
learned the value OF advertising, and Henry
pleaded in vain for more liberal patron
ate. a leading merchant who claimed TO
bo his friend stubbornly declined to give
him big 'ad' and SAID It would be money
thrown away, for nobody read them
Don't read themr exclaimed Henry.
don't read theml Wen, | viii snow you"
Next mornings paper contained a short
edtor.aI on cats and told how cat fur had
recently come into great demand in fash
able circles in New York and how the long
COARSE hairs were eliminated and the real
fur was made into uppets and mutfs and
every fashionable lady wore a feline, etc
Not far of in another column dis
played advertisement that said:
WANTED go cats. for which % cents
each will be paid
The merchants name was signed to II
Ey noon the eats began TO roll in. Small
boys, white ana black, brought them IN
baskets and bags. For a while the mer-
chant enjoyed the joke. but soon got tired
ami went away - dinner. BY the time he
returned the boys and dark.es from
the suburbs were coming in ana the side
walk was blockadcd. Henry had laughed
until he was exhausted and sat on win
dow sill across the street. threatened. he
said with a catalcptlc ST. N"iShboring
merchants and their clerks gathered around
and laughed and shouted amt cried at every
now arrival oil cats. As fast as the mtr-
chant drove off one crowd another hled
their places. He armed himself with a big
stick, hut at last he closed his doors IN
sheer despair and night relieved him from
the pressure.
but tho nest morning tho catastrophe
was worse. The catalogue was not ended,
for the country people had heard the news
and brought cats in On their wood wagons
and uudcr their buggy seats and tied up
i'm cotton baskets like chickens Henry
took his stand near Toy and leaned against "a
telegraph pole Tor support tic and shank
loved fun. We're an there and while IT was
fun To- the boys and death 10 the frogs IL
was such 90 rare and racy joke That the
merchant confident GET mad ami finally sur
rcuuercd. tie maue an appropriate little
speech 40 the crowd and tod Henry that
10 hv would promise never 60 DO him $" any
more. DIS wound give him tho biggest "ai"
h. had ever had ,n his paper. Horny prom
Used and the ad was e.y''- So, - trat-
.G the mischief THAT was I'm his rolhcklug
nature
IIut one evening Henry was sick and left
his junior 90 make zap the paper j. was
just ON the eve of an exciting municipal
election aud some hitter things had been
published ana more bitter things bad been
said lt was feared that some of the con-
tending parties would come 10 blows
candidate who had been sorcly maligned
wrote "a bitter deuuuci alton of his opponent
aud took IL 60 the junior Just before the
paper went 60 press Tt was received ana
inserted ana printed in about three hun
dred copies whom Horny walked into the
oflic, 10 see what the boys had done i'm ms
absence. lie read the article and vas hor-
ror-stricl5cn. stop that press cried he.
.'Stop ii stop it. I would not have that ar
ticIe Eo ina for 50 COO Both those men are
my personal friends. ana they viii tight.
There viii ne bloodsher either on the street
or ina "a duel Both have wives ana chill
dren and ID would be- "a shame 90 widen
the breach. How many have you struck
ofr2''
About three hundred" they said
"Weu. get your knives and scissors ana
W. VIII cut it our of every one and print
no moro with that bloody piece i'm them
An hands went to work and soon had
every paper perforated with hole 2Nt
inches, ard SO they We're folded and mail
ed Tho town wondered. but Henry had
ts,,-4rr an hands fa Gatra,.y and NOT more