The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-03-27
c. B. LEWIS. DEAN
HUAOR|STS.
Under Pen Name of M. Quad
He Has Made Millions Laugh
In Past Forty Years.


dean of humorists, who recently
~ celebrated the SEVENTEEN ami
versary of his birth. is more ia
military known as NJ. Quad In the
past forty years millions of newspa-
per readers have laughed over the do
ings and sayings Of the many charac-
tiers he has given TO the world of hui
mor-NIr. and Mrs. Bowser; Brother
Gardner of the Limekiln club; the
Arizona Kicker: Colonel Bunker, the
grand promoter; Old Pap Pinkham Of
the Jericho postofiice; Honest Abe, y.
s. NJ. the German cobbler and many
others.
M. Quad may be said to have Gre
ated more humorous characters than
any other humorous writer and prob
ably has written. word for word more
humor than any other funny man.
Since 1869 he has averaged 10000
words of humorous matter every week.
On his attainment of threescore and
ten years NJ. Quad was the guest of
a number of his fellow humorists, who
presented him with n handsome leath-
er bound and gold mounted album
containing their congratulations and
their appropriations of his work. Some
of the tributes follow:
George AIDE:
zone of my earliest recollections is
that Of sprawling on the floor. giggling
over the Limekiln club. Little did |
think that some day might grow up
and try to write the same kind of stuff
We are glad to have you with us this
year. You are marvel for long dis
lance and high speed Best wishes"
Ellis Parker Butler, author of "Pigs
Is Pigs"
"Out there in Iowa, along in the late
seventies and early eighties. l was
kid, and two cross currents swung me
this way and the other. A dearly be.
loved aunt fed me safe doses of Mat.
thew Arnold and Tennyson and Long
fellow, and some of the poems / wrote
were bad enough to appear in the
magazines of today. I was within an
inch Of being II poet. But | had a
father-got him still. thank heaven.-
and he would sit in that deep old green
easy chair and chuckle and gurgle and
choke over the Detroit Free Press
night after night | couldn't see that
any one chuckled and gurgled and
choked over Matthew Arnold, and it
seemed to me that the codger that
could take tired man and give him
hours of mirth and merriment was do
ing mighty good job. So you are
the guilty man,
81 mention this that your seven
tieth birthday may have proper
tinge of regret If you ever read any
of my stuff you'll know what you
have been guilty of. But when your
Maker charges you with this crime
you can say: Il know | know I'm
responsible for bum humorist, but
think what Il dod rotted poet he would
have BEEN"
Strickland Gillian. who produced
"On Again, Off Again, Finnigan:"
ION you more than on any other
person rests the onus of my death
dealing career as an alleged and con
fessed humorist.
when | was seven years old | had
scrap book filled with things of yours,
pasted in with paste made laboriously
from flour boiled in an old battered
tin cup on our old step stove in south
ern Ohio.
'That was the influencing thing in
my early and particularly plastic
stage. Then | saw that humor kept
away the pain Of trouble If not the
trouble itself; that it was the anaes-
thetic God applies to deaden the pain
of living.
81 feel whole lot more than tickled
about you. | thank the Lord for you.
You've done more good than a whole
lot of sad eyed people who wouldn't !
want TO be mentioned in the same
chapter with you.
$50 on We young fellows all |
worship you and want you to live for
ever, TO show us what poor stuff ours |