Show got the best or of Ar artmus ward A short stout man oi of about CO 50 years with a round face laughing eyes cyca and gray muk mustache nelie passed along broadway above park place yesterday apparently in a brown abrown study As ho passed by a western man said eaid to an acquaint acquaintance ance there goes the only man mail who ever got the best tit of artennis ward in a practical joke who is lie he was asked A minor griswold the fat contributor wat the response I 1 just before t ho he war broke out lie he andWard and ward who was then beginning his career as a humorist ivere chums on the cleveland aris got 11 a week end and brown only 10 whenever artemus ran short of money ie be said gris lend me a dollar you get laore salary than I 1 do you know this kept on until ward was some 15 or 20 alicade then a brilliant idea truck griswold giswold lie ile went to the busi tess less manager of the paper and said 11 1 I want rant to get my salary changed we cant do doit it was the tha response we are paying you now all we can of af ard I 1 11 1 I dont doubt that he be answered but you misunderstand me I 1 dont nt an increase of salary but merely in exchange with my friend brown rou see he has some people depending on tim im and I 1 want to help belp him along all right light responded the manager ill male make tho the change and I 1 must say eay bris that it is very clever in you to sug test est it the rest next week brown got the 11 ind gris the 10 salary before the next tay day day gris began bortolin ben owing from Ward because you gettlin get the most salary rou know ward saw the point but bill he ha stood the racket like a major until he squared his indebtedness with griswold when he suggested gris dont lets leta borrow borow of one another any ny more gris G ris asien assented ted and thereafter accounts were even with them griswold is now a humorist on ills his own hook and lias has made it pay for lie he has a cozy little home up ill in Ila ilem |