EDITOR'S WALLET

Otago Witness, Issue 1918, 24 August 1888, Page 37

EDITOR'S WALLET

n-n v a t, *. » T~ iJiil JMye ana a Hook Agent. THB FELLOW ACTUALLY TRIED 10 SELL WILLIAM ONE OF His OWN books. ' iTesterday I had a persohkl cdnflicb of a bitter and acrimonious nature with an unknown person on my grounds at Staten Island. I desire to speak of it mj self rather than have the matter get into the papers in a garbled state., • I live in a quiet portion of the island, just within sight of the Produce Exchange tower, .but beyond the reach of the night air -of New York. • Here we have civilisation on the one hand, and the wild whoop of Buffalo ;Bill's savages on the other. Just nedr enough to make it exciting; , I did not think I-Would be annoyed here by peddlers, beggars; and fakirs.. Yesterday a plain, sad man rung the door-bell. He told my representative that he desired very much to meet me; and presented his card. the name was not familiar to me, but I put jon.my other coat and invited him into the 0^ \* T* pe°ple who do not come highly endorsed. ■ He was rather quiet and sad In spots. I sympathised with him, for I know what it is to be sad. „ He hftd alettfei- of introduction, he said, from.a well-known litterateur and confrere mine, which he begged leave to present. 1 read it. It introduced the bearar in the usual form and begged me, to treat him kindly, and stated that any favour shown to him wottldl be gladly relocated I then T^\L^T^l\Z^^T^ an e,eotf .„ I^^'^f^f !l! l ™ J^i? /°IaS!: fJylT^uCFn^V" *'•»..* i *?,** SfL»S «nivs°ii!?n« » ff U? ™T^im. c- -tie naa omy cauea on a matter =SSSSS=?3 „w £ • __ "^-Jl Krrr "^"h* t««» avl V" ?! S« SffrcV •.. ? eo P*eJ^ Nt to know about# It has statistics in it, but-they are so presented thafc 70u like them ' You read aW J® „! ff. S JS««»^"^rwv^ t ? f °, wn ™c. lOJS' columns With the keenest cn J°ymellt- -There is a thread of interest r"n.Dl^ through these tabulated statements h,lCh, ma^ 8 y° u U Slt A UP 011^. after ? ° clock readlD& them ' Au the bookis Bo^^ full of Intereßt and thrill, and yet it would 6"^ "" Hh?°S 3 ust at a time when everyone is doubting the authorship o other books and gives to one and all a feeling confidence and assurance when faith ** and is groping and c^hing for something tangible and stab c. £™ " °ss™tiaXlL\BtabJ c ?00^ I^ ells how fco break colfcs ' hew to treat cnbbers» b, otts« and arm^ worrDS ' how to brin« «P cßldren and put down huckleberries, how to eat a sitting hen during convalescence, how to make a cook stove or a cistern pump JJ™' hh n °. w *°. r, lt.e,f or th. c papers, how to kee P f nts °ut of ?e? c PunP u nt ?' Tto D? ake P arents self-supporting, how to put up a lambrequin or put down a carpet, how to purify po]iticg Qr make ft floafc. .alandj.alandj faow tQ modify tbe tariff or make a « ood durable d^^w toX^to^ to mV J101"^J 101 "^ ""U f T^l,^^ t0 teU byapig»s melt in the fall whether we are going to have an open winter or not, how to bank up a house, how to win the affection of the opposite sex, how to meet an emergency, how to make ink at home which will speak dye a dress black, how to remove lavender pantaloons from fruit stains, how to sew up a man who has tried to run a Col^Ured *«™»u;.hintson culture, hints on voice culture, hints on marriage, farming, revivals, etiquette; how to make a good, S^?* 6 P,° Ulti f! l hat t0 d ° W™« °f drowning,; how to make One dandelion root serve as the foundation for a gallon of bitters every spring for 10 years, bow "to amass wealth and dodge the grand jury, how to snare a grizzly bear. In fact everything you a?sfi*^ 1 toldinpleasanfcstyle>for w£ at this tim. that the personal encounter took place. lam not F a muscular J"^ legS eVery direction when lam excited. They are longer and more lithe than thoSe OJf0 J f the average man. An artist from Munich once told me that he thought I was the limbiest man be ever saw, and he had seen a great manY men . c v I ff d-j permanently disfigure this person bat I jolted him-severely and contussed and F^ ame m °r. °alm> J ff red my dreS J" r 9O^ where my valet turned my cuffs forme. I then returned tc the parlour. On the floor i found the pv oSpectus. It had bp Pn left by mi^ikp T w»9 <-nnW nnw T ?i■? 7 m I*l. *fu V took it up and read the name of the author On the titlelpage. It was as follows :— ° BILL Nyr NB>