Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1881 — Beecher. [ARTICLE]

Beecher.

New York litter. > When Henry Ward Beecher was editor of the Independent,sixteen years ago, he wrote a few editorials, but soon got tired of such work, and his name was dropped. Editorial life requires stated labor, which is just what Beecher intensely dislikes. When he wrote for the Ledger this disinclination annoyed Bonner to such a degree that he was compelled to adopt a new method. This was to seud a man to Beecher’s house every week orders not to leave until the “copy” was placed in his hands. Beecher being thus put under siege at first was wont to “beg off”‘and make promises, but after a while he found that there was no escape, and hence fulflled his contract. Bonner paid Beecher during an engagement which only lasted three or four yearS, nearly sso,ooo—including $30,000 sor 4 Norwood.” This was then a profitable investment, but the scandal destroyed the s&ie of Beecher’s writings, and Bonner dropped him. Beecher has made paore money by preachhig and writing than any other man that ever stood in the pulpit, and it is hardly probable that his success will ever be equaled. He is really a wonderful man, and his powers, even at 66, seem but little abated. - • A man of 92 is suing at Des Moines for a divorce from a wife of 85. r .......,