nk, I uttered "_Shingawauba_," or whisky.
"Dot fetched him." He too laughed. _Gleich mit gleich_, _gesellt sich
gern_.

While living in New York, and during my connection with the _Press_, I
often met and sometimes conversed with Horace Greeley. Once I went with
him from Philadelphia to New York, and he was in the car the observed of
all observers to an extraordinary degree. He sat down, took out an
immense roll of proof, and said, "_Lead pencil_!" One was immediately
handed to him by some stranger, who was by that one act ennobled, or,
what amounts to the same thing in America, grotesquely _charactered_ for
life. He was the man who gave Horace Greeley a lead pencil! I, as his
companion, was also regarded as above ordinary humanity. When the proof
was finished "Horace" said to me--

"How is John Forney getting on?"

"Like Satan, walking to and fro upon the face of the earth, going from
the _Chronicle_ in Washington one day to the _Press_ in Philadelphia on
the next, and filling them both cram full of leaders and letters."

"Two papers, both daily! I tell Forney that I find it is all I can do to
attend to one. Tell him not to get too rich--bad for the constitution
and worse for the country. Any man who has more than a million is a
public nuisance."

Finally, we walked together from the ferry to the corner of Park Place
and Broadway, and the philosopher, after minutely explaining to me which
omnibus I was to take, bade me adieu. I do not think we ever met again.

In the summer Colonel Forney went to Europe with John the junior. When
he left he said, "I do not expect you to raise the circulation of the
_Press_, but I hope that you will be able to keep it from falling in the
dead season." I went to work, and what with enlarging the telegraphic
news, and correspondence, and full reports of conventions, I materially
increased the sale. It cost a great deal of money, to be sure, but the
Colonel did not mind that. At this time there came into our office as
associate with me Captain W. W. Nevin. He had been all through the war.
I took a great liking to him, and we always remained intimate friends.
All in our office except myself were from Lancaster County, the
birthplace, I believe, of Fitch and Fulton. It is a Pennsylvania German
county, and as I notoriously spoke German openly without shame ours was
called a Dutch office. Once when Colonel Forney wrote a letter from
Holland describing the windmills, th