The Topeka state journal., 1905-10-08

self to an editor, a man
~ somewhat older than him
self The editor was busy
and not disposed TO listen to whatever
business had brought the printer to the
Office.
After while. however. the editor
was made to understand that the
young man wished to go to Fur0pe
where he purposed spending as long a
time as possible travelling on foot
trampings studying the countries he
visited and making the close acouaint-
ance of the people.
Want to write articles of travel
etc.2" finally queried the editor In d
queer high voice, forced to make some
kind Of answer. so do all the other
fOOlsi"
Then he tried to make it clear that
he was too busy to give the matter
any further attention, BY this time It
was the young printer who was slow
20 comprehend He didn't allow it to
be beaten into his head at all that his
project WASH { acceptable and he hung
round, till, out of sheer Weariness. per
haps. the editor listened to his plans.
The result was that the young printer
had the satisfaction of leaving the of
nee assured that he was to be allowed
70 travel on foot in Europe and write
for that particular editor. instead of
Tor some other editor as had seemed
likely when they began to talk.
The editor who figured in this Incl
y
parauvely a young man, in the early
flush of his success with the New York
Tribune The young printer was Bay
ara Taylor. He was not yet 21. The
letters which he sent to the Tribune
as the result of his European tramps
were published under the general cap
ton Views AfOot." Later they We're
put between covers.
Few more entertaining books Of
travel .lave ever been published 1t
fu
though first issued in the forties, and.
while the name of Bayard Taylor may
not stand the test of immortality. it is
more widely known today. though he
has been dead nearly thirty years, than
the name of many writer who re-
ceivea more money for his work in d
week than Taylor did when beginning
Go make his way in six months.
WHY BAYARD TAYLOR sue
CEEDED
There is no editor of any success to-
day who is not bothered every day of
his life by the sort of unframed,
Would-be writers Mr.. Greeley charac-
terized as adjectivaI fools on the day
Bayard Taylor called to see him, He
feared Taylor was one of them, and.
naturally tried to discourage him.
Greeley's abruptness was to be regret
ted, perhaps, as possibly likely to chill
the ardor of genius, but his proceed
ure in the matter was perfectly sound,
He knew instinctively or had
learned by experience, that if the
young man was really capable of doing
what he proposed in the way it should
be done. ne would not and could not
be discouraged. Greeley didn't stop TO
think all that out with regard to the
young printer before him at that time,
Drohabiys he was too busy; too en-
crossed in other things. All he want
ed just then was to get rid of a chap
who was bothering hfm. But when
Taylor finally managed to make him
SELF heard his plans showed sense Of
the sort the editor doesn't always hear
fron the Would-be contributor; the
sort that the editor OF Judgment al
vayn listens to with respect and often
with enthusiasm.
Taylor had found out what the peo-
ple Ike to read about. he knew how to
tell it to them and he wanted to do It
ne could have told fhe~@ tn nos 2 h~'7f
fhein eva country which they would
hava read as eagerly as letters Of for
eign travel, and he knew &C. hlt ne
wanted TO learn about other countries
aud their inhabitants and so preferred
TO 70 across the ocean for his material
Hn had found out what for lack pl
q better tegus IS denominated set hu-