The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-08-16

ooh. bother!" Olive Munroe ex-
claimed, to the man who loved her'
look at David Harum' and The Hel-
met of Navarre'-they never had VIII
ten anything before, and they maze
piles of money. l don't see why you
shouldn't do exactly the same.
''But I'm not a writer, Dick PLEADED
alphabetically.
Then for heavens sake why olu
you start writing?" she blazed out.
81 didn't-that is l was going lnCo
the business department just as soon
as l had had little experience report
ing. Then you know my uncle oleu
and they had to sell the paper, ana
now l don't seem to be able
Olive turned up her nose IN arsu-
ment, and Dick sighed at the lmposSl-
bility of convincing an upturned NOSE
"You might try to write something
while you're waiting to get INTO INC
business department" Olive went on
presently, when The force OF the up
turned nose seemed spent. III you
won't make novel, then at least write
a little story. They say Frank H.
Stockton became quite famous with
just one story, and The Lady or the
Tiger wasn't more than two or three
pages long
Man is made or married, molded or
twisted, uplifted or dragged down by
the woman of his choice-creature Oh
propinquity that he is, speaking con-
ceitedly of choice" in this world
where the causes were laid long ago,
and man is only an effect. A few OF
us a very few, move a trlhe this
way or that, but most Of us only splash
a little in the stream of life, down
which we float, looking at the river
banks passing by, and proud of the
progress we are making, like the fly
on the wheel, in the fable.
Dicks position was hard one. AT
ter leaving the college world, where he
had been a successful manager of
teams. and business manager of the
Monthly. he had anticipated rising in
the outside world, ii not meteorically
at least, steadily, especially since an
uncle owning a newspaper had offered
him position, with the understand
ing that if he proved his worth he was
to rise very near the top.
Dick entered the newspaper bust
ness, not, as SO many college men do,
because he fancied his manipulation
of the English language and saw lit
erature on the other side of journal
ism, but for the business side of the
profession. However, he started
chasing murders, marriages, railroad
wrecks and suicides in order to have
experience in all branches of the bus
mess, and the sooner to be through
with this one. He had hardly more
than convinced the city editor that
he had not the making Of a star re-
porter in him however when his uncle
died, and the paper passed into other
hands, his uncle being one Of those
men whose affairs after death require
considerable Untargling. In the state
of unstable equilibrium into which the
employees of the paper found them
selves when the new management
came in, Dick held his place as minor
reporter with a porsistency that would
have been admirable had his place
been at the top instead CT at the bot
tom. He seemed 10 be forgotten Men
rose and fell all around him, and he
was immune.
1t would probably have been the best
thing for him to have been fred"
but the love which he bore to Olive
and which made him long 10 rise,
kept him from risking the little he
had surely for the much longad fo~.
Her exhortat:oEs o write something
to win fame and fortune made him
very unhappy. He knew in his soul
that he was no w.iter, but love, which
makes COW ARDS CT some men, makes
othero fools to rusA in, wEere their
betters would h2} e feared to tread. ana