It was an odd thing for Mr.Stokes to do, for I could little interest a brilliant and educated man like him.

The reason for my receiving such an honor was a communication I had written for the "Pittsburgh Journal." Even in my teens I was a scribbler for the press.

To be an editor was one of my ambitions.

Horace Greeley and the "Tribune" was my ideal of human triumph.

Strange that there should have come a day when I could have bought the "Tribune"; but by that time the pearl had lost its luster.