The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1916-11-16
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That evening he found letter from
home. Among other things it said Eliza
beth's husband had died. He renewed
his courage and bought the printing out
fit of his former employers. He acted
the part of editor, reporter, publisher
and advertising agent, employing two
printers. The politicians called his pa.
per 1.-The Weekly Funeral" On her
birthday he paid the last of his debts,
and the thought of Elizabeth fired him
with resolution to reach the top or die
climbing.
Another character building influence
came in the form of Methodist revival.
He was speedily numbered among the
converts, but conversion failed to produce
the prescribed amount of agony. This
was attributed to the fact that he had
heard Mr.. Beecher say that when man
found he was on the wrong road and
turned back, he did not usually roll in
the dust and agonize over his mistake.
He just turned around and went the
other way.
The paper and the political bosses
were both Democratic, but when for
political expediency they dismissed a
Republican policeman who happened to
be his pei sonal friend, there was trouble.
The political bosses tried to mend mat
tiers by giving him position as inter-
prefer. There was 30 little work con-
nected with the position that he drew
his salary with some qualms of con-
science. On each succeeding pay day
his conscience troubled him less and less
Failing to see things alike, his colleagues !
tried, to have him dismissed, but could
not without the aid of the Legislature,
whose aid they invoked. The Legisla-
ture got rid of him by abolishing the Of
flee, but Immediately proceeded to resur-
rect it without its incumbent. This
ended his political career, of which he
continues to- be ashamed.
He put a drunken nan out Of office,
warning him of trouble if he did not 20
about his business. Ehat evening he
was hunting a troublesome dog among
piles of lumber with intent to shoot it.
He had sent boy to tell the police not
to trouble if they heard gun as he was
going to shoot a dog. Something re-
sembling the dog was discovered on the
lumber. The gun was raised to shoot.
But he was moved to go closer only to
discover, not the dog but the man Sleep
ing, whom he SO recently put out with
threatening language. Had he fred how
could he have convinced jury that it
was not premeditated murderf
On another occasion a crowd gathered
around to see fight, sending their most
drunken member into his office. AS he
presently came out through large win
dow breaking all the glass, they would
have sworn that the proprietor knocked
him through the window and broke his
| neck, but the fact was that he simp-
ly fell through the window of his own
weight. Such is the danger nf convic-
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wore on and the long looked for letter
came. 1t CHANGED that the paper was
| SOLD for five times the cost about this
time.
Recently, while lecturing in Chicago,
a lady came up and asked if he was the
Rils she had Travelled with twenty-five
ago, who was going home to be married.
They warned him that she might not
turn out SO nice as he expected. Their
early married life was jubilant with ex-
pectation. His experience with stere-
opticon outfit proved a repetition of his
former business experience, sometimes
with money and sometimes without.
When he tried to get position on The
New York Tribune, he was told that he
was too green. But he finally secured
the coveted position, five years after
the death of Horace Greeley, its founder.
In his haste he ran against the city edi-
tor and knocked him down. Instead of
getting discharged he was promoted to
police headquarters at an advanced sal
airy. At the end Of the first week the
manager of the Press Bureau reported
unfavorably to the Tribune in regard to
their reporter. The city editor requested
them not to be too hasty in forming
their judgment. After ten years war
he became the boss reporter in Mulberry
street.
The police do not care to have all mis-
deeds made public for fear they may not
catch the offender. The reporter who
gets what they wish to conceal is the
winner. The reporter must so report
facts that the human drift will be evil
dent. A fire might hide firebug; a sick
man meant pathetic story. Tracing
back to its origin, case of sickness dis
covered seventeen members of party
of twenty-five sick with the same symp-
toms. Calling together the half dozen
different doctors whom they had patron
| lied created a sensation for the paper.
One hot day he put cabbage leaf in
his hat when he was going to call on
three grief-stricken sisters. When he
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