The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 24, 1886, Page 2

TOLD BY COL. WATTERSON. _| Another Pig in the Congressional Poke. | From the Joplin Herald. oo A Penniless Rebel Soldier in Cincinnati | His First Position on a Newspaper. The last time Colonel Henry Wat- terson was here he told a story about his experience in Cincinnati. He said; “I arrived in Cincinnati one blus- tering winter night, a ragged, hun- gry stranger, just out of the rebel army. I haa just enough money to pay for a night’s lodging. How well I remember wandering about the streets of the city, wondering what the next day would bring me. T believed that I had abilty as a journalist, and I was satisfied that if I had an opportunity I could prove it. I was in the act several times ot entering the different morning news- papers and applying for work, but I was so downhearted that I did not have the courage to do so. I tooka good sleep that mght, and did not get up until late the next day. My case was a desperate one, and I felt that I must secure employment. I never felt more determined ‘in my life. I felt that I could tace the sternest editor in the land without a quiver. In this trame of mind I started out to make a tour ot the various offices. At the first office the editor, in a blunt way, told me that his staff was crowded, and then re- sumed work. I visited all the news- papers with the same result, except the Times office. That paper had a large job printing office attached to it, which did a great deal of theatri- cal printing. TI also noticed that the paper had a miserably written dra- matic column, I called on Colonel Starbuck, the editor and proprietor, and asked if there were any vacan- cies on his staff. ** ‘There are never any vacancies on a good paper, but there 1s always room for'a good man,’ said the col- onel. “I shall never torget that reply, and it is one I have always made to applicants tor positions on the Cour- ier-Journal. I told Colonel Starbuck that I thought I could improye upon his dramatic column, and proposed to write it for nothing it he would give me 25 per cent commission on all the printing and advertisements I secured from the thesters. He de- clined the proposition. As I was about to leave he turned to me and said he would give me $12 a week to perform that service, What a change came over me. I immediate- ly felt myself rich. I told him I would accept it. He then said that I must not fee! offended if at the end of the week he found | did not suit and he dismissed me. I knew I would suit, tor I knew the full ex- tent of my abilities, and I told him that if I was not competent [ should consider it an ottense it he did not dis- charge me. ’ This was the first of the week, and I started in that day. 1 never undertook a task with more enthus- 1asm. I attended the theaters every mght. Before the end ot the week Colonel Starbuck expressed his ap- proval. On Saturday afternoon 1 went to the theaters to collect the money for printing and advertising due the Times. theater, after collecting the money, IT was handed an envelope addressed tome. Supposing it contained an item of news or a ticket I put it in my pocket unopened. At Pike’s an- Other envelope bearing my name was presented me and the same thing Occurred at Wood's theater, When 1 returned to the ofhce, I opened the envelopes and found the ones pre- sented to me at the National and Pike’s each contained $10. The one received at Wood’s contained $5. I told Colonel Starbuck the cir- cumstances and tendered him the At the National | money. He said that it did not be- long to him and he would not accept it, I said it certainly did not belong to me and I would not accept it. I | returned the money to the theatrical the sack-cloth-and ashes period. The managers. They said the money | simplest is a slice of cheese placed , had been given ia consideration of | 00 a slice ot bread and baked in the the tavorable notices I had given their Oven. pertormances. i | “Colonel Starbuck a short time | alterward made me managing editor terer,”” which disappeared trom sat Germany 3° years ago, has recently ‘There are certain liniments which wil, | '@PPested and the woodlands are it if soon returns. St. | Wess City, March 6, 1886. Epiror HeraLp:—The congres- sional squabble is starting up, and I think the time has now come for me to put in my oar. < I am a democrat. I was tor Jackson and the Spoils. I was tor Horace Greeley and Crow. F I was for Tilden‘and Retorm. I have been tor everything and against everything. This entitles me to a voice. I see in the Herald this morning some in- ferences. You are clear off wrong when you think the Carthage Demo- crat is supporting Stone tor congress. It and the power which 1s behind it will support Stone only so far as 18 necessary to bust him wide open. That newspaper is tor Phelps for congress—the Hon. Wm. H. Phelps, ot Carthage. I am tor Phelps myself. He has more sense than all the rest ot the caboodle combined. He al- ways wins. He may be the rascal and demagogue that he is charged with, being, but still he will compare very favorably with any of the bal- Celebrated Mitch Cortland Spring Wagons -and Iron Suction Hardware, Groceries, Tron Steel, square, Butler, Mo. Nails, «ec. BENNETT, WHEELER & C0. —DEALERS IN THE— ell Fam Wagon, Steel Gear ant Top Buoses Halliday Standard or Force Pumps. ‘Wagon Wood work. Northeast corner ance of them. He has never been accused of be- ing a fool, aad his record is that he gets there Eli with what he under- takes. Maybe I ought not to give the game away, but I do it on my own hook. I don’t lke this monkey busi- ness politeness—straizht out is the way. Of course Jasper county will have a candidate, and Phelps will be the man, or beat the man that beats him. Now, why not talk right out and say we are all for Phelps? Anybody who, on second thought, would believe that Phelps or the Carthage Democrat was going to help Stone, ought to be sent to the asylum for the teeble minded. Even if Stone goes back to congress, what can he do for Phelps? Nothing. Phelps don’t want any Chinese mission, territorial judgeship or post office. lf he did he is too good a judge ot men to count on Stone to get it for him. Aw O_p Harp SHELL Democrat. | & } a SINGLE EXTR EELY That we have been A Car Driver's Catch. Chicago, Il!., March 10.—A dis- patch dated Racine, Wis,, was the first intimation which the wealthy Hebrew flour merchant David Simon had that his handsome daughter who disappeared Tuesday had wedded a christian and above all a very poor christian who drives a street car and bears the plebian name of Smith. Mr. Simon is one of the foremost Hebrews in Chicago, and the ac- Offon all CLOAKS LEFT. will not leave For us to carry until another season. Everything Low ta lean Our stock before taking inventory CALL AND SEE This reduction so early in the season off of the selling them certainly GARMEMT LOW — complished Miss Celia Simon has been a belle and much sought atter by young men of her own religious faith. Monday a prominent broker is said obtained her father’s consent to ad- dress her. She at once informed her parents that she was already engaged but he refused to hear anything about it. The next day Miss Simon was missing and a certain car on Van Buren street lacked a driver. The young couple will reside in modest apartments on the west side to which Mr. Simon to-day sent all his daughter’s effects. The father said this evening: “I am not satisfied, but I suppose I must be resigned. I wish Celia well but will not aid her now.” LOAN AND WALNUT, trSixteenth Year.-@ THE KANSAS CITY TIMES. 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