| Show BILL SUCCESS not only rl a great humorist but bat also a man mait with strong business Busin eks when bill nye commenced to write his sketches for the boomerang of laramie wyo a dozen years ago liale did he be think that they chev would be more than local interest he simply reported things bines in laramie as he be sa saw w them not realizing that his mental vision and his ca capacity vacily to reproduce uce it on oil paper was of such a peculiar nature as would gain for him fame would create in the popular mind a demand for a constant supply af it and would consequently have a pecuniary value but this he r realized ea ivied when to his hi s ere at surprise he be found that his bis slie sketches telles were appearing in every newspaper vi a theland the land it dawned upon him at onca that if these were worth reprinting they were worth paying for to be ure sure s they haid had brought him fame in laramie there he had been honored with the position of justice of the peace but fame or this position were worth cioth lt ins to him in that town As a result the a boomerang Bom erang was sold nye kye saw that if his talent was cultivated there was a rood opportunity to gain at least a fair support and while he was turning over in his mind what was the best course to pursue he was taken taen ill and while recovering from that he had an argument with a cyclone that left him with a broken leg and a few broken ribs to nurse As he was convalescing in the South he wrote a by a drawing idone d one by himself which he forwarded to the new york world it was immediately accepted and with the came a join the staff of the world his business instinct merw him well on this occasion ninetynine Ninety nine men out of one hundred would have jumped at an offer of this nature but nye argued that a humorist could not maintain himself there and that in the whirl of news paper life the humorist would be stunned his hie work would become forced and he would sink to the dead level of the average As a result nye went to the paper offering business not seeking employment he was engaged to write as he be chose and what he chose over his nom de plume and he sot got a year tor for doing it this deal revealed reye aled that nye was wail as strong in business as he was in humors humor and from that time on his hia pathway has baa been one ot every increasing prosperity his income is now said to be abear a year it is known that begets he gets a vear for his hia weekly letters that ma manager i nager H B thearle pays him yearly about as much more for pl platform atford w work n rk and that his royalties on books will swell awell these amounts to that of the salary of the pre president aident of the united states |
