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ARTE!*IItS WARD.
FT JAMES PARTON.
In the beautiful town of Cleveland,
Ohio, eleven years ago, I was Introduced
one Sunday morning, to Ml; Charles F,
Browne, who had recently acquired ce
lebrity by bis Artemus Ward letters, in
the Cleveland Plaindealer. He was then
twenty-five years of age, of somewhat
slender forra.but with ruddy cheeks and a
general appearance of health and vigor.
He was local editor of the
and had the ready, cordial and off-hand
manner of the members of the Western
press. Like other professionalimmorists,
he was not particularly funny in ordinary
conversation; on the contrary he was less
so than Western ,editors,,usually are.. I.
was far from anticipating the career that
was in store for him i still less coaid I
have foreseen the premature :i death of a
young man who presented an exception
al appearance of good health. If he were,
alive to-day he' would be only thirty-nine
years of age? \
He was born at Waterford, in Maine,
where his father was a surveyor. His na
live village, as he say‘s ; in one of his pa
pers, “does contain ovet forty houses all
told; but they are milk-white, with the
greenest ot blinds, and for the most part
are shaded with beautiful elms and wil
lows. To the right of us is a mountain;
to the left a lake. The village nestles be
tween. Of course It does. I never read
a novel in my Hie in Which the village
did not nestle. Villages invariably nes
tie.” In this secinded hook in New
England he passed the first fourteen years
of bis life, during which he acquired such
education as a‘rather idle and sport-lov
ing boy could acquire in the common and
high schools.
He was sent to learn the printing busi
ness at a neighboring town, called Skow
hegan, where, in the office of the Bkow
hegan Clarioh he learned to set type and
work a band-press. To the last days,of
his days he held this place in abhorrence.
Q*& of his friends has recorded that he
was accustomed “to set up a howl of de
rision” whenever its name; was mention
ed ; and that whenever he desired to ex
press the least degree of contempt for any
person or thing, be would speak of them
as worthy of Skowbegan. How many a
boy has reaped a full revenge upon a
teacher or an employer by turning out to
be a genius, and consigning him to uni
versal ridicule!
At sixteen he found his way to Boston,
where be obtained employment as a com
positor in the office of the funniest peri
odical then published in Boston, the Car
pet Bag, to which Shillaber. Halpinc and
Saxe contributed. As he set up, from
week to week, the humorous contributions
of these writers, the conviction grew up
on him that he 100 could write a piece
that would .make people laugh. I think
he must have been reading Franklin’s
Autobiography, or the preface to “Pick
wick,” for in putting his talent to the
test, be employed a device similar to that
used by Franklin and Dickens in offering
their productions to the press. Having
written bis piece in a disguised hand, he
pul it into the editor’s box. Great was
his joy when it was banded to him soon
after, to set in type.
The first piece, I believe, was in the
style of Major Jack Downing, whose let
ters, be once said, bad more to do with
making him a humorist than the produc
tions of any other writer.
About this time he happened lo read
Bayard Taylor’s ‘Views Afoot,’ in which
that popular author gave an account of
his making the tour of Europe, and pay
ing bis way by working at his trade,
which was that of a printer. Captivated
by this great example he started for the
Great West. When his money was ex
hausted, he would stop for a while in
gome large town where there was sprint
ing office and replenish his purse; which
done, he would continue his journey.
He stopped short of China, however.
At the town of Tiffin, Ohio, he obtained
a place as compositor and assistant editor,
at four dollars a week. Prom Tiffin he
removed to Toledo, where he procured a
similar position on the Toledo Commercial
at five dollars a week. It was upon this
paper that his talent as a humorist first
attracted attention, and he was soon per
mitted to devote bis whole lime to filling
the local column with amusing abuse of
the rival paper. He acquired so much
celebrity in Ohio as paragraph
ed that he was offered at length the place
of local editor of the Cleveland Plain
dealer, at a salary, munificent at the time
and place, of twelve dollars a week.
Most of the noted humorists—and the
great master of humor himself, Charles
Dickens—have shown a particular fond
ness of persons who gain their livelihood
by amusing the public—showmen of all I
kinds and grades from the tumbler iu the
circus to the great tragedian of the day. j
Iu the performance of his duty as local |
editor, Charles Browne had abundant op- j
portttuity of gratifying his taste, and he j
gradually became acquainted with most
of the traveling showmen of the "West
ern country. He delighted to study their
habits, and be used to tell many a good
eto.-y ot their ingenious devices for
arousing the enthusiasm of the public.
Much of this showinidn’s lore he turned
to’ 1 account in tb'e letters of Artemus
Ward. j
Therj are dull times in a place like
Cleve'and when the local editor
is hard pul to fill his co’omns. N* J-lnw.
no court, no accident, no fust ionable wed
ding, no su- .ri.se no police repnr*,
no trotli .g much, no anything. One
day, in 1859, when the local editor of the
Plaindealer was in desperate want of a
topic, he dashed upon paper a letter from ,
an imaginary showman, to which he affix*-
ed the name of a,Revolutionary General,
whichaiways asbeing odd—
“ArtemUs Ward.’* The lelter rali thus:
2b the EHtot o/tke F^ndeaUr^' A. \
“Sib ;
—downtordsyour place. . I want you to H
write me a letter, sain’ hows the show
bizness in your place. My show at pres
ent consist sof three moral BearsTa Kan
garoo—a amoozin little Raskel ; t’wqnld
make you larf to delh to'see thc little cues'
jnmpup And raqueal—waxrfiggera of Q.
Washington, Gem Taylor, John Banyan,
Dr. Kidd, Dr. Webster in the act of kill
miscel,
lanyus moiral wax statoois ol celebrated
pirQts and murderers, etc., ekalled by few
and exceled by rone.”
The showman proceeds to urge the
editor to prepare the way for his coming,
And promises to have all his handbills
“dun at your offiss.”
“We must fetch the public somehow,”
he continues. “We most work on their
feelings—come the moral bn ’em strong.
If it's a temperance community, toil ’em
I sined the pledge fifteen minutes arter
Ise born. Baton the contrary, if your
people take their'tods, say that
WattTls as genteel a fellow as we ever
met —full of conviviality, and the life
and sole of the soshul Bowl. Take, don’t
yon!” ‘ L
Mister Ward concludes his epistle by
condensing its whole meanibg In a very
short postscript:
“You scratch my back; and I’ll scratch
your back.”
This letter made a wonderful hit. It
was immediately copied into many hun
dreds of newspapers, and was generally
taken as the genuine production; of a
showman. ' Other lelters in the same vein
followed, which carried the name of. Ax
temns Ward and the Cleveland i%»n
dealer to the end of the earth. For two,
or three yeats they figured in the funny
column of mrtst of the. periodicals of
America, England and Aiistraita.' 1
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But except the .reppUiUoa. which the
letters gave, they were of little advantage
to the author. His salary may ,have been
increased a few dollars a week, and be ad
ded a little to his income by contributions
to the comic papers of New York. No
man, indeed, is so cruelly plundered as
the writer of short, amusing pieces, easi
ly clipped and copied. He writesacomie
piece for a trifling sum, which amuses
perhaps five millions of people, and no
one compensates him except the original
purchaser. There are, for example,comic
dialogues which have done service for
fifteen years at negro minstrel entertain
ments, and now make thousands of peo
pie laugh every night, for which tbe au
thor received three dollars.
Artemus Ward, anxious to boy back tbe
family homestead in which to shelter tbe
old age of bis widowed mother, soon dis
covered could never do it by mak
ing jokes unless hd”could sell them over
and over again. So be trie^/ comic lec
turing. The first night the experiment
was a failure. A violent storm of snow,
sleet and wind thinned the audience—in
Clinton Hall, N. Y., —to such a degree,
that the lecturer lost thirty dollars by the
enterprise. A tour in New England,
however, had better results. He lectured
a hundred nights, by which be cleared
nearly eight thousand dollars; and he
was soon able to establish his mother in
♦
the comfortable village home in which
he was born.
1 thought 1 ought not to conclude this
article without letting the reader know
why this bright and genial spirit is no
longer here to add to the world’s harm
less amusement. Well this is the reason :
Wherever he lectured, whether in New
England, California or Loudon, there was
sure lo be a knot of young fellows to
gather round him, and go home with him
to bis hotel, order supper, and spend half
the night in telling stories and singing
songs. To any man this will be fatal in
time ; but when the nightly carouse fol
lows an evening’s performance before an
audience, and if succeeded by a railway
journey the next day, the waste of vitali
ty is fearfully rapid. Five years of such
a life finished poor Charles Browne. He
died in London in 1867; aged thirty-three
years ; and ffow lies buried at the. home’
of bis childhood in Maine. He was not
a hard drinker. He was not a man ot
strong appetites. It was the nights wast
ed in conviviality which bis system need
ed for sleep, that sent him to his grave
f ifty years before his time. For men of
his profession and character, f>r all ed ; -
tors, literary men and artists, there is only
one lie should have
taken the advice of a fctage driver on the
I plains, to tyhom be offered some whisky;
and I commend it strongly to the count
less hosts who see this paper every week :
* “I don’t drink, I won’t drink ! and I
j don’t like to see anybody else drink. I’m
j of the opinion of those mountains —keep
j your top cool. They’ve got snow, and I’ve
j got brains ; that’s all the difference.”
ThK Bank of England covers five acres
of ground and employs 900 clerks. There,
are no windows on the street. Light is
admitted through open courts; no mob
could take the bank, therefore, without
cmnon to batter the immense walls. The
clock in the c jnter of the bank has fifty
dials attached to it. Lirge cisterns are
.-link in the cour*. and engines in perfect
order are always in readiness iu case of
fire. This bank was incorporated in 1094.
Cipita', $00,000,000.
THE RADICAL: FRIDAY, MARCH 28. 1873.
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A iiMae on au Inclined.
' ; Plane* ; ; r-; -, ’ ; j
Elmira Gazette, welearn that
there|fi^4 iire, y tim t B
mh»efsii(r'daya agof .3A?*is& : ;of caw,
■ were
them broke. ud^U :
alone’and"' unchecked
twenty-five hundred feet ran. ‘ The velpc
ity it attained was Inconceivably swift,
andthe runaway^
likeaatrenk of grafted lightning as It flew
dong the down hill track.
:. 9 ~ \f reached ihe bottnm of the plane
the. safety-car of the -mine? just reached
the mouth of the pit A terrific collision
wasthe result. The B»foty. w» weighing
2500 pounds, was struck, by the coal car
and hurled up into the air many, feet and j
crashed down through a house over the ,
track.
There was not enough left of cither the
coaj or safety car td make a decent sized
toothpick. White ‘ the car wW on its"
destructive down trip one of the wheels
flew off, and crashed through a bouse in
Ite line of travel, going clean through it
like a cannon ball.fresb from a hundred
pounder. l ln this house were . two men»
who fortunately were not injured, but"
the scare they sustained was about as bad
as death.
No . one was hurt about the mines,
which, under the circumstances, is re*
markable. •
Bow DrlnMlng CaaMi Apoplexy.
It is the essential hature of all wines
and spirits to setid ah increased amount
of blood to the brain. The first effect of
taking a glass of wine or stronger form of
alcohol, is to send the blood there’ faster
than common, hence the circulation that
gives the red face. It increases the ac
tivity of the brain; and it Works faster,
and so does the tongue: But < suppose a
man keeps ota drinking, the Wood is sent
to the brain so fast, in such' large quanti
ties. that in order to make room for it the
arteries have to enlarge themselves; they
increase in size, and in doing so they
press against the more yielding-and flac
cid veins which carry l the blood out of
the brain and thus diminish their size
their pores, the resultrbelDg that the blood
is not only carried tb’ thel arteries of the
brain faster than is natural or heatbful,
hot it Is prevented from leaving it as fast
as usual»hence a double set of-causes,, of
death are in operation. A man may
drink enough brandy or other spirits in a
few hours, or ip a few minutes, to bring
on a fatal attack of apoplexy. .
Josh Billings on February. -■ -
Josh Billings in his almanac caBts,hia
horoscope over February thusly:
man born in this month will bee^j^^lr
looking, but too much prone to tow in
when he walks. He will hav two wives,
• •
and a small hand, except when he
whist; then he will have a big won.' His
furst wife will bee kross eyed, but his Sd
won will bee krnss awl over. He will
have fore children, and they will awl pass
through the meascls, with great credit to
themselves and no disgrace to the meas
els- Tbe yung female born during this
muntb will show grate judgment in the
sorting ov her la vers, and will finally
marry a real estate agent. She will have
a fu failings; bnt who cares? she wouldn’t
be interesting if she didn’t. At twenty
ate she will be a widow, and at stated In
tervals will be inclined to gush a little.
(Fer the sake of variety we say, let her
gush.)
The Spanish papers give horrible de*
tails about the outrages perpetrated by
the Car list leaders in the northern part of
the peninsula. They say that thes3 hor
rors surpass in atrocity any thing that has
ever happened during the numerous civil
commotions in Spain since the begin
ning of the century, and they demand
that the government should inexorably
exact reprisals.
One ot the Japanese boys at school in
New Haven received, a few days ago,
what he considered a grievous insult from
a white comrade. Instead of resenting
it with violence, and anxious not to in
fringe in the slightest any of the rules of;
the school, he sent a polite note to the :
master, requesting permission, according,
to the custom in his country, to kiil the ,
boy who had insulted him. The request |
had to be denied, and there the matter|j
dropped. lj
Feeling is a much slower sense than
sight. It is that if a nua had ani
arm long enough to reach the sun. andi
were to touch that body with the lip of
his finger, he would never find out
whether it was hot or old, as be would
be dead before the sensation arrived at
headquarters, which would require 100
years.
; The SPRING SESSION of thi* institution be
* _. AVAiianfru «iq tlmt An tfitQl* i ©ins lst,'iS*»i.
As exchange informs us mat an iniet j ° Thc deßiKn of tbe i» lo providc . !or ?hc
foreigner recently wrote to his lyoang of both scsea tho advantages of a thorough
~ , 1 ‘ Normal, Classic ard education. spe
hotnc friends that when a great man attention being given to the triiiniag «t
dies in the foiled Sutes. first .Oil* J
done is to propose a fiae statue in his . j.h. vkazby. Principal or
honor; next, to raise part of thc necessa- j bami el bigger, becretarj
sory money ; nest, to forget to order any 1)ITTSBlU(i H
statue; and last, to wonder what became J V*
of the money.”
A New York paper complains Ibat JAMES OLD,
free loye and divorce courts have terribly m liberty street, Pittsburgh, pa.
undermined the institution of marriage ; j Aho. RYNGRS. i£x,. aud particular
*> ■ , , attention paid to FURNACES, Public and Prorate
and that now the last step toward | Buildings. novi«Jm
emancipation has been taken by a man j
who has invented shirt buttons that cm
be put on with a screw driver. With
this device the last necessity for a wife is
gone.
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Am<*ko the gifts which have been made
to humanity, none, in the lower sphere of
virtues, should call forth onr ihankfulness
more than the gifts of cheerfulness, and
wit and humor. They civilize life. They
w perpetual
anymanbave buoyancy, if he find him*
seJfcgiyeir to Wft, in thename of heaven
do sUppwii lt. Multiply the 'drops
wbich spring oatpf thKprecions fount*
:'ain;~
A wait. kkoWs lEUrtfort merchant.
who paid a dollar for feat tn;
the top-gallery at the opera -the other
nljthJ, was very much edified by, seeing
several young oien, who had owed "him"
many: months, occupying four dollar seats'
in the parquclte, with fashionably attired
young ladief at their side.- He thinks U
few years hence they won’t 1 be. able to
buy even gallery tickets.
“What do you call that?*’ indignantly
asked a customer at a cheap restau ant,
pointing at an object that he hail dis
covered in his plate of bash. “Wristband
with sleeve button attached, sir,” said the
gaiter briskly. “Well do you consider
that a proper thing for a man to find in
his hash ?” asked the Customer in wrath.
‘Good heavens, sir!” cried the waiter,
“would you expect to:find a ten dollar
silk umbrella in a fifteen cent plate of
hash ?”
“Now, my .young friends, suppose
twelve men buy . twenty four bushels pf
wheat to be divided equally, how many
bushels is that for each ?” Boldest of . the
boys—“ Please, sir, we’ve not gone that
far.” “How,is that* Yonr teacher toll
me youhadlearned all the first tour rules!”
Boy—“Tes, sir ; but we have always done
our sums in potatoes and turnips—we
have never had wheat. ’’
There is some talk of a geological sur
veyor Rhode Island, but the work may
be delayed on account , of its expensive
nest The professor who is expected to
make it, says that if be is expected to go
qver the State. it will take him at least
two days, and he won’t do it for less than
nine.dollars and a half.
Not to him who sets out in the morn
ing’with resolution and gallantry, bdt to
him who holds out till the evening of life,
dees the promise apply, “He that endu
reth to the end shall be saved ."-j Pavel
A North Carolina roan recently
laughed a plum stone out of bis nose that
‘had been embedded there for six years.
Moral; Always be merry when afflicted
with plum stones in the nose.
A gentleman going to Texas asked a
friend fora letter of introduction. The
friend opened a drawer, took out a large
and handsome spring-bladed daggerknife
and a six chambered revolver, and gave
thereto him.
Women are like horses—the gayer the
harness they have on, the better they feel-
We got this from an old bachelor who was
early crossed in love”.
.The married ladies of a Western city
have -formed a “Come-home-husband’a
Club.” It is about four feet long, and
has a brush at the end of it.;
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i 24 Cash Gifts of sl.oooeach
50 Cash Gifts of WW "
: 80 Cash Gifts of 400 '•
1 100 Cash (»:fts at “
150 Cash Gifts of 2iH) “
: 590 C ash Gifts of 1«0 "
9,000 Cash Gifts of 10 “
Total, 10.000 Gifts. all cash £>oo,ooo
' To provide means for this magnificent Concert,
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND WHOLE TICS
RTS ONLY will be Waned." ‘
‘ Whole ticks/*. $10; Haive*. SJ; and Quartern,
$2.50. Eleven tchole Tickitefor SlOO. No di scout a
on less than $lOO orders.
The object of this THIRD GIFT CONCERT,
like the two heretofore given with such universal
approval. is the enlargement aud endowment oi
the PUBL C LIBRARY OF KENTUCKY. which
By the special act authorizing the concert tor its
benefit, is to he forever free to all citizens of eve
ry State. The drawing will he under the super
vision of the Trustees of the Library, assisted by
the most eminent citizens of (he United States.
, The sale of tickets has already progressed . an far
that complete snccess is assured, and buyers are
therefore notified that they most order at once rf
I they desire to participate m the drawing.
1 The management of this undertaking has been
I committed by the trustees to HON. THOS. B.
BRAMLETTK, late Governor of Kentucky, to
whom comm uhlcaf ions pertaining to the Gift Con
cert mav be addressed.
K. T. DURRKTT. Pres't.
W. N. UALDEMAN, Vice PrtVt.
JOHN S. C AIN. bee y Public Library of Kv.
FARMERS’ AND DROVERS’ BANK, Treasurer.
: As the time lor the Concert is close at baud
TAnril Bth). parties wanting tickets should in their
orders immediately if they would avoid the rush
■and delay absolutely unavoidable in the few days
the drawing. All orders and applica
tions for agencies, circulars and information will
•meet vnth prompt attention.
IHOB. K. BRAMLETTK.
Agent Public I/hitry. i.outsville. ISy.
g°°K AND JOB PlUNTivu
mEATEE RABI£ AL!
5 POWER PRe BS
JOB PRINTING OPPICK i
JOB OFFICE
THE “RADICAL BUILDING;
BEAVER.PA,
regardless or cost
PRINTIKG EBTABLISHMENT.
TWO POWER PRINTING PHEB&JSS,
And is prepared to do all lead? of r»t o:mg
1N the BEST STYLE OF THU ART,
Low [Pabices
As caa be obtained at Pittsburgh oi elsewhere.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
BUSINESS CARDS.
CIRCULARS.
BILL HEADS,
(100.000
50,'J'JO
25,000
20,<00
- 10.000
5.000
24.000
25.000
32.000
30.000
30.000
59.000
90.000
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THE BEAVEK 8.11)10*1
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PLR ANNUM, I> :
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THE BEST
IS USA VSR COi'STy
OFFICE IN
CORNER DIAMOND,
The proprietor has fitted ap
A new and complete
RUNNING
aa good and at aa
LETTER HEADS
BLANK BOOKS,
CHECKS
PROGRAMMES
BLANKS,
HANDBILLS,
LABELS
CHECKS
PUBLISH £l>
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