The age-herald., 1897-08-08

inexperienced 15-year old lad. and his next step was a blunders ~ He sals up allsnight, and by daybreak If4d finished ten poems These were en- ielesed ia a large envelope. with Ehe fol- bwins aiflacloussmlseivs
 2 eBsar Sir: want thirty dollars for these"
 TheperEes sware sere back to the author without days delay, with slip on which WAS writ en:
 ; ztDeclned with 1hanks-not up to the standard"
 The 3f9p5inte1 boy Shed many t.ars over tthis faiiBre...s
 One day he told an old printer all about steand'tshoHed a8im the rejeo.ed poems. You ssit too many al one time" said tf1e vsgtersn, and the editor thought that they must be pIagiafisms or below the average. But they are pretty fair poems. Bend eRa of them every week to your man. F9s Nill think tiney are brand new
 With many n.Sgivlngs dhe poet follow ed his friends advice.
 = The New York editor aceeps ed the ten poems at the rate of one each week and paid SS apiece for them. He was in bliss fal ignorance of the fact that he had re- jected the entire batch about month before,
 stanton's memory is something phe- nomenal. He can repeat the whole ef chtlde Harold. p ge after page Of Shakes .peslre and hundreds of poems.
 The first day he joined the staff of the Constitution one of the editorial writsrs read aloud a. prose passage of about sixty elines from one of Ingersolrs lectures and remarked that it was really a poem, and could easily be arranged in the shape ofbiank verse.
 At the time Stanton was busy writing, but he overheard the reading of the ar 1tlele and an hour later he astounded his comrades by bringing up the subject and repeating the passage word for word.
 He was tested with several pcems and it was found that he could easily, remem- berz any ,pdehn of ordinary length after hearing it once
 Clark Howell the managing editor of the paper, was an interested listener ana The new mans rema rkabIe memory de- lighted him.
 "YoiI are the man I want" he said. ''E will add 8 a week to your salary and get you to watch al the candidates for the state and county offices, and con- .dense what the papers say about them every day.
 This proposition was accepted. as matter of. course, but Editor Howell was intensely -1fsgusted when he found that Stantonts memory was good only oul po- ioaI ma In al things had prac tically no memory at all.
 As he cared nothing about politics it was hard for him to remember the names of candidates. He had to make out lists of the Georgia congressman and keep a notebook in which he jotted down the names of candidates
 It required a week for him to get the number of his housis fixed dn his mem- ory. and an IAtroduction to a prominent nnah, amounted to nothing
 -,.Nhos is hep would be asked after a visitor had left him.
 Don't know" he would reply: T for get his name. but he is from Tennessee or Flori da,. or somewhere--cant think of his state new.'
 ,s-Anasyet bis memory sometimes takes hold of strangers A pretty girl with a flower, a young poet struggling for bread. a ragged tramp in trouble, big hearted man who loves his fellows-he remem- bers these forever.
 fn One respect Stanton resembles his distinguished co-worker Uncle Re- mus, He is unwilling to 1save Georgia, aid seems to think that position on a big newspaper in amy other st ate at dou- blea1hiss present salary would be utterly ruinous.
 Uncle Remus'' is satisfied that life is not worth living outside of Atlanta and Putnam county, wheTe he was born, and Stantons horizon is confined to the city Limits of Atlanta Occasionally he is induced to visit New York and Chicago but nothing would tempt him to live there. .-s~
 It is passing strange that these two men are willing to remain practically prison CTS in a ''peut-up Utaca," when business and pleasure offer them wealth and fame in our great centers of population, but they are so Constituted and they cannot help.it .s
 Doubtless as trange timidity and shy ness common to both men will be found to be fine true eoplana tion of their un- willingness ito change their place or. abode.
 .z They seem to think that geographical lines change human nature. and man from ,ancibher state ds a person eo be studied and tested, just as though he were a visitor frfom the planet of Jupiter. ! Still, their prejudices are easily over come, and they count their friends all
 most literally from Greenland's icy mountains to 1ndias ooral strand
 Stanton. is now about 45 years old He is of medium height, with gunpowder complexion and fierce black eyes. The poet is careless of his fame, and he sneglects his business interests. His popularity causes his work to be sought after in many quarters. but as a rule he. throws it away where he receives the smallest compensation.
 In Atlanta he is of course. out of place. The Georgia capital is a busy, money-lOying city. and it will be fully