The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-12

you come on here by-and-by you will
 come to the office and go home with me. can keep you like fighting
 cock for a few shillings a day. Such
 beef as we get at Crook x Duff's you never saw since God made you. Tell Less l got his papers and will write him soon. He is your nephew and an orna- ment to his sex. l see people from the west occasionally. They come up to the office in large numbers sometimes, much to my qualification. l am glad Alphon- sus is eXerting himself. A man ought to for six dollars week.
 T shall go to Fall River Saturday by beat The factory owners there will probably turn out and receive me with the band. Give my love to J. B. Altho' an English wretch he is one of the best men l ever knew, and l hope he will live to eXpectorate on the tombs of all his enemies if he has any. Ever of thee,
 A. WARD"
 '"Tell John,' Browne goes on in an- other letter to his friend, that I reach for the bread, as l did in the palmy days of the Cleveland tavern, and l pour out my tea. The panic times are rather severe, but we shall weather the gale My publishers are holding the book back in the hope of better times. It would be folly to issue it now. I am now the managing editor of Vanity Fair. New York is severe on a mans feelings in the summer time, but l think of taking board in Railway, N. J., for the hot weather. It's twenty miles distant, a delightful village, and abounds in female society of a first i class character, the refining influence l of which l have already felt. I am l popular in Jersey. They like me for my winning ways. l am making influential | friends fast. l was never so steady in my life. Indeed, am compelled to be, Promptness and faithfulness in business here are implicitly demanded. It is the greatest mistake in the world to SUD- pose man can raise the al in New York and still occupy a responsible bus mess position l have not made any thing stunningly gorgeous in the way of money, but I believe my prospects are good It is a wild, mad tumble here, but those who take care of them selves usually come cut all right.
 q suppose Less is with you yet, or is he in the post-otfice? He seems to nave lOl SollGu lllt. ell llIlIl lD tIlliEl write or go to the al. Much obliged for my trunk, If the expressage cost anything send bill or dig till l see you. 1 have authorized you to draw on me ad lib. for any favors 1 can do you here. Will tear my shirt for you if necessary. New York is beginning to scorch me. They say it is blazing hot here in the summer so as l said before l shall hie me away to Jersey. To Jersey ere long, amid the flowers, lambkins and the pretty little birds. Well, 1 will hoss. Is it fact that Hoyt, the sculp- ist, has gone to the wars? I don't know how it is but, something within tells me- in a still. small voice, that l am better adapted for the home guard than anything else"
 In October the humorst said: Tn a very short time, say four weeks, l will square your account. But if you must have it before then say so, and l will raise it for you or perish in the at tempt. So much for that. I feel first rate My trip did me good. New York is lively enough for practical purposes, the many rumors to the contrary not wthstanding. In regard to my or
 
 the latter yet but called on the for mer. He was angry and said the work had done him more harm than good. Among other remarks, he said:
 Damn the papers, all of 'em,
 q said, Certainly but invited his at- tention to the fact that his signature was attached to the document in a regular business way, and that I | couldn't well perceive how he could re- | pudiate. He said l might come and | board it out but as his face was flushed with anger, I don't think I | shall. I am afraid he would make it l too lively for me"
 One of the queerest of the letters in the collection was written a few montbs before Browne starteds out on his tour to lecture upon the Babes in the Woods" a lecture which, as his admir- CTS know, contained no reference to babes save in it's title. In this letter he says Now l blush as l write it-I feel that l am coming it altogether too strong on you-but do hunt up my Three Tigers of the Cleveland Press in the Plain Dealer files and send it on in a letter. The piece was not in the bun dle Less sent. The piece is valuable to me. In short, without the piece I shall be unhappy, and prithee, send her on, Set some of the boys in the mailing de- partment to work hunting it up, and my childrens children shall kiss your name with heartfelt affection. Bully boy
 As l was quietly taking some coffee and cakes with Henry Ward Beecher at smiths in Chatham street, the other night, after the Bowery was out, he ac- alluded to you. He is, says Mir, Beecher, "a young man of much promise. He is a good book-keepist, and his balance-sheets are always cor rect. I like him. He also spoke of Less but I am sorry to say he was not very complimentary Lester says Mir. Beecher, will come to the gallus in about two years if he keeps on. What do you think of Brokenshine Henry?' says I. "A good man, sir, said Mr. Beecher, a very good man. in- Iced, though he's a blanked English man. On getting up from the table Mr. Beecher insisted upon allowing me Q pay for the coffee and cakes Welve cents. By the way, love to the everbloom- ng Briggs. Shall write him soon. Did le get the sixteen million dollars and 1oX of jewels l sent him the other day?