Without more encouragement he went on.
"My brother," said he, "when I first came out of Princeton I was burnin' up with zeal.

There was the world, the whole wide world, plunged into an abyss of error and wrongdoin'.

I was the sole and remainin' hope.

Like all great men, I naturally wanted to begin the savin' as early as possible; and like everybody else who comes out of Princeton, I thought the best medium for immediate salvation was journalism.

I wasn't a newspaper man.