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Show EX-SPEAKER REED'S FORTUNE. , Hit Literary aa Well ae Legal Work i Paid Him Handsomely. j Tha fact that the late Thomas It, ! Heed left an estate of :ll.nou, after I all liidchtiMlncss had been discharged, 1 was a matter of surprise to people ' generally, writes William K. Curtlt ( In the Chicago Iteconl Herald. Mr. Heed always pretended to lie Tory j poor, but iittte of his Intimate friend ) were convinced long ago (hat bla por- erty waa an alToclntlon, because they I knew of large fit's received by him ; from time lu time for legal service i and literary work. Ho never wrote I a lino or made a speech for nothing. J Kaih of the ninny articles which J from time to time appeared In tha j magazines from hla pen brought him ' fr.ini, and I know of one Instance at least In which he received 1 11)0 from I a Now York newspaper for an Inter- 4 view he prepared with himself upon ' a current topic. Ills lectures brought him .',ii0 a night, and occasionally la I largo cities like New York and Boston I he received 1,CXH. The year be- j I for be left Congress be delivered 5 five lecture In one week, for which I i he received a check for 12,600. ! He estimated his legal aervlret at t ; a very high value, and unless bl( t . client made a bargain with blm In 'i i advance they were sure to be aur j ' prised when they received their bill. j There It a ttory that, while In I-on- don tome year ago, he charged John , V. and C U. Farwell of Chicago 5,000 i for giving some Information to their , Kngllah tollcltor about tht lawt of (ht United Htates bearing on tht lale of tholr Texaa lands, and I know J where be made a life enemy of on of hla closest friends by sending him a bill for advice given on a logo '; quostlon In what was supposed to be ' i a friendly conversation. ' |
