The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-16


"aboard" the staff of the Palladium
he acquired the paper eating habit
and it has gained him additional
fame since becoming known to the
literary world. The Index" a pa
per published at Evanston. Ill, con-
tanned the following:
"Mr. Strickland w. Gillian is one
of later additions to the large num-
Der of men who are daily making
Evanston famous by their writings.
In addition to a column in the Chica-
go Daily News his humor finds ex-
preston frequently through the col
umns of Judge. he being one of the
stan men of that periodical. and in
cidentally he is gathering in many
shekels by fun-making on the lecture
platform. Likewise he is president
of the National Press Humorists' as
ISOLATION, but to that position no sal
airy is attached.
In his 1ecturing, like other noted
men, he has to go to such places as
an allwise lecture bureau may send
him, and it keeps him travelling from
the wilds of Dakota to the marshes
of New Jersey and back again, but
he says he likes to travel. Also, like
other noted men, he has some per-
sonal habits which occasionally
bring him to the verge of trouble.
One of these is the old newspaper
habit of snatching the nearest piece
of paper when he is thinking great
thoughts and preparing to unload
them on the public and putting that
piece of paper in his mouth to chew
it desperately until, when the
thought comes, the paper is but a
sodden wad fit to throw at school
boys.
Tries New Thought.
Then he throws 1t and goes to work
on another thought. 1t was some lit
tie place on the map of New Jersey
that he was doing his thinking in. A
check from Judge had come that day,
and when he had thought sufficiently
he searched for the check, but it was
nowhere to be found. Then he went
through the usual performances of a
man who has lost money, and when
he had finished a great light struck
him. Could he have chewed up that
check? He could and he had. He
found it in one corner of the room
and managed, with much labor, to
get enough of it together to pretty
well establish it's identity and mailed
1T to the managing editor of Judge,
together with a pathetic little note
reciting the pitiful circumstance.
This was the answer he received:
Mr.. S. w. Gillian,
No. 1912 Chicago Ave-,
Evanston, Ill.
My Dear Gillian
Herewith please find check for the
champion paper chewer and greed
lest check eater that has ever been
my good or bad fortune to know. Up
ON my word, you are surprise to
me. l have looked at you and spec
ulated about you, and sized you up
and felt that I had reached the total
of what you come to. But 1 find that
| missed entirely one of the most in
teresting things about you. When l
add this to the sum total of you as I
had reckoned you before, / find that
1t more than doubles you. l am real
ly proud to know that / know the on
ly man in the United States that goes
about the streets chewing checks. I
am so full of the subject that l am
going well, never mind what l
am going to do. You just buy q
copy of Judge of the date of Decem-
Der and you will see all about it.
Towne.
And here is what Mr.. Towne writes |
In this weeks Judge about the check |
chewing Incident, in column of his |
own called Answers to Correspond |
ents:'
Dear Judge:-I am to read a paper |
On the peculiarties of great authors |
before our Ladies' Study club, and |
don't know one popularity of sim |
gle author, living or dead. Can't |
you help me? Sarah.
Yes, we can help you, as far as |
moment of leisure will suffice to re-