Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1883 — How He Got Solid With the Dukes. [ARTICLE]

How He Got Solid With the Dukes.

Tom Ochiltree used to tell a story of the time When he was editor of the Houston Telegraph, a “d-tndy newspaper” of somewhat limited circulation, printed in a Texas town six days a week. He happened to be* in Paris—“used to run over very ofren, you know” —and .was walking down Avenue de l’Opera one night “with Jim Bennett and a lot of Dooks and Princes. When we came to a telegraph office Jim says: ‘Hold on, Dooks; I want to go in and tie a dispatch to the Herald.' So we all went into the telegraph office. Bennett hauled out a lag wad of manuscript and handed it to the clerk. There

were a good many thousand words in it, and the Dooks and things were very much impressed. I saw that I must do something to keep my end up, so I said carelessly to Bennett: ‘ Jim, is that anything particular?’ He says: ‘Well it's a little dispatch one of my fellows handed me just now. I thought enough of it to bring it over here.’ ‘Very well,’ I said; ‘do you mind if I duplicate it ? ’ ‘Not at all,’ says Jim. ‘Well; then,’ says I to the clerk at the window, ‘ just duplicate that to the Houston Telegraph.’ It broke the back of the Houston Telegraph, but it made me solid with the Dooks.”