Patience and "Pie.”

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 268, 29 December 1874, Page 7

Patience and "Pie.”

Horace Greeley used to affirm that newspaper men were the most patient people, as a class, on the earth, and he wasnot far from right, though there are times when patience ceases to be. a virtue with the most enduring. Nearly everybody in the western part of the State knows Burr, who used te start a newspaper about once a month the year round, generally bringing them out in Grand Rapids, but sometimes making a flying trip to other points. Burr could stand to be told that be lied about his circulation, was on the fence as a politician, and that he did not know anything about publishing a newspaper; and, when men threatened to sue or thrash him, he he only smiled a sad smile and wished that mankind wouldn’t get excited. During a religious revival in Grand Bap ids, Burr was converted, and it frequently happened that religious people called at his office to talk with him. One day a minister came in ; and after talking a while he proposed prayer. Ho was in the act of kneeling when his foot struck one of the outside formes, which was leaning against a leg of the stone, ready to he lifted up, and over it went, making half a bushel of “pie.” Burr looked at the ruin wrought, thought of the two weeks overwork, and commenced taking off his coat, saying; “I’m. trying to bo a Christian and' set a good example, but rat my buttons if I can’t lick you in two minutes !” The clergyman backed downstairs in no time, dodging the lyebrush on the way, and Burr backslid at once, and sent down for a pint of stirnui lant.