. In this we do not fully concur, and in view of the large number
of employes who have grown old in his service, we cannot but feel
justified in this belief. Horace Greeley and James Gordon Bennett, the
two leading New York journalists, but how different. Mr. Greeley had a
larger personal following than the _Tribune_; the _Herald_ had a larger
friendship than did Bennett who was the power behind the throne.
Journalism lost no lesser light when the great _Herald_ editor passed
away June 1st, 1872, than it did six months later when Horace Greeley
passed from darkness into light. As Mr. Bennett was a life-long
Catholic, he received the last sacrament from the hands of the renowned
Cardinal McClosky.

PHINEAS T. BARNUM.

We would not pass by so remarkable a character as that presented to us
in the life of P. T. Barnum, a man born of poor parents at Bethel,
Connecticut. Like many boys, he picked up pennies driving oxen for his
father, but unlike many other boys he would invest these earnings in
nick-nacks which he would sell to joyful picknickers on every holiday,
thus his pennies increased to dollars. At an early age he was deprived
of his father, and began work for himself at six dollars per month. He
here saved his money, and afterwards opened a store which proved a
successful business venture, especially after he added a lottery scheme.
It is interesting to read of the many of our successful men who have
drifted from one thing to another until they settled upon some
life-work, then there was a hard struggle for victory, which was sure to
come, provided they persevered.

In 1835 Barnum heard of a negress in Philadelphia who was reputed to
have been the nurse of George Washington, and who it was claimed was 162
years old. Barnum immediately set out for Philadelphia, and succeeded in
buying her for $1,000. This was more money than he already had; he,
therefore, risked more than he owned, but by judicious advertising he
was enabled to draw large houses, bringing the show up to paying $1,500
per week. The next year the negress died, and a post mortem examination
proved her to be possibly eighty years old, but Barnum had secured a
good start. From this time on, for fifteen years, he was connected with
traveling shows, and his museum proved a most profitable enterprise.

In 1842 Mr. Barnum first heard of Mr. Charles Stratton, whom he
presented to the world as General Tom Thumb--exhibiting him in both
America and Eur