Show A TRICK OF GREATNESS oilier othe r great men have their eccentricities tri cities why not nee newspaper paper men the recent marriage of the brilliant london journalist george augustus bala sala recalls a peculiarity of bis his which all who were ever associated with him must havo have wondered on dered at the Bo hemlin tendencies supposed to belong to strolling writers in general were bisin lits in a marked degree and these caused such exasperation on the part of the editors of the fie papers for which he wrote that before bis his fame made him independent of their wrath he lie had to endure many a scolding with the not infrequent command to call at the counting rooms and draw hia his unpaid salary latterly lie he has written when and what be pleased and received liia ilia ova own n 4 price for it but hia ills old time custom has ha not been departed from tills this was to keep his ills place of real residence an in absolute secret ho ile never permitted even bis his most intimate friends to know where he lived and the result of this amiable habit became at times extremely annoying his ilia mail went to the newspaper office or the club and whenever he fie had a big piece of work on band which required steady attention lie would disappear III absolutely from view sometimes the newspaper which was intending to publish the heavy piece of work on which mr bir sala waa was engaged e t 7 J won would id findt necessary to communicate with w ith him before the completion corn of the manuscript all handa hands in the 1 office would start out in and on foot to visit the resorts frequented frequent eil by the tile journalist and the liv livelier elieA port sort of a chase all over london would follow at times it would be three or I 1 four weeks beka before anybody succeeded an running running run nini the writer to cover ilia rge nage with his typewriter will not bo be a failure it if it puta puts an end as it I 1 probably will to the necessity for the I 1 i dive relon known adiong tle the craft en cn I 1 the thames as estill a still hunt for sila SAIA S ila 11 |