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Show WORKED TOO HARD. Why David Graham Phillips Ones Loit a Situation. People who thought thnt tho late David Graham Thllllps had a rapid, fluent nud even nt times orerhasty pen were very far from tho truth, says a writer In the Bookmau. Mr. Phillips himself admitted freely that from first to last ho always found literary lit-erary composition n labor a labor of love that ,be could nut have shirked If ho would, but none tho less a labor. A story which he sometimes told nt bis own expense illustrates this. It wns shortly after his graduation from Princeton that he nought work ns n reporter nnd finally by offering his services for nothing obtained n chnnco to show what liv could do on the lending lend-ing dally In n western city. Tho weather wns cold and tho temperature tem-perature of the otllee somewhere below be-low !0 degrees, yet hour after hour Mr. Phillips would sit nt his desk with tho moisture rolling from his brow In tho anguish of trying to make literature litera-ture from such material as "Yesterday "Yester-day nfternonn John Jones fell off n stepladder nnd dislocated his shoulder." shoul-der." Ono day It was the tenth of Mr. Phillips' ervIoes the presiding genius of the pitper happened to pass through the city room nnd stood for some minutes min-utes wnt( lilug him "Who Is thnt young man?" he pros- ently asked the city editor. I The latter explained. I "Get rid of him!" came the curt , edict. , "Itut." expostulated the city editor, "we ure getting him for nothing." "I don't care." rejoined the higher power. "I don't care If lie Is paying for the privilege. Get rid of him nt once. I rnn't Uar to see any human being work so hard." |