I was younger, and even more thoughtless than now, and I had a little money and I handed it over for the 'Herald.' I wanted to run a paper myself, and to build up a power! And then, though I only lived here the first few years of my life and all the rest of it had been spent in the East, I was born in Indiana, and, in a way, the thought of coming back to a life-work in my native State appealed to me.

I always had a dim sort of feeling that the people out in these parts knew more--had more sense and were less artificial, I mean--and were kinder, and tried less to be somebody else, than almost any other people anywhere.

And I believe it's so.

It's dull, here in Carlow, of course--that is, it used to be.

The agent explained that I could make the paper a daily at once, with an enormous circulation in the country.