for discussion.

3. Your article is full of high-sounding declarations, and
void of either logic or common sense.

4. In your endeavor to express the wishes of the prejudiced
and biassed, you are undoubtedly dishonest with yourself
without deceiving the public.

5. Your article lacks the ring that carries conviction,
either as to your sincerity or the truthfulness of the
statements you make.

6. The article indicates that you are vainly trying to ape
Mr. Lawson's style.

Yours respectfully,
E. G. MANSFIELD,
Attorney-at-law.

Following the Donohoe outburst there came innumerable letters, of which
this is a good sample:

TACOMA, WASH., February 14, 1905.

_Dear Sir_: It would be greatly appreciated by at least one
of your readers if you would furnish the great and only
Donohoe the details of some really scandalous epoch of your
past. It has been stated many times that one man cannot make
a million dollars and do it honestly, so we must assume you
have done some "things" in your past. We have a very high
regard out West for the works of Mr. Dooley and Mark Twain,
and also are regular subscribers of _Puck_ and _Judge_, and
we don't want to see these noted writers and periodicals
unseated, even for the time being, by Mr. Donohoe.

Therefore we ask you to give him some tip from which he can
work out something serious, so he can make a statement that
is not "reported," or the deduction of which does not
require Sherlock Holmes.

His work of "dissecting" so far reminds us of the work of a
six months' student of a medical college on a Tom cat (no
pun meant).

Yours very truly,
L. H. M.

I answered as follows:

_My Dear Sir_: Your request is similar to that of a hundred other
correspondents. I regret I can do nothing to help out. Donohoe's trouble
is, he is short of facts, so "short" that he seems to me completely
"cornered." I am "long of" them, as you and all my other readers will
admit before I am through my story, but my facts are not the kind
Donohoe can use, or I would willingly let him have a few to assist him
out of his present predicament.

Donohoe's employers, Rogers and the "Standard Oil," knew before they put
him on to his present "job" that my life was a peculiarly and unusually
open one--one that had absolute