In 1883, in connection with my business, I established a trade
journal. After running it a few years I could no longer spare the
time. It was then paying about eighteen hundred dollars a year
profit and was capable of doing better. I offered it to George
Lawton, telling him if he ever felt he could pay me a thousand
dollars for it, to do so.

The day I turned it over to him I gave him a few hundred dollars,
remittances for advertising received that morning. In a few years
he sold the paper, and in one way and another he secured twelve
thousand to fifteen thousand dollars out of it.

He never paid me one dollar for the property, nor did I demand it
of him.




CHAPTER XVIII

AN UNEVENTFUL YEAR



The year 1883 was uneventful.

At home, life moved on serenely in its accustomed channels. We were
very happy and did all we could to make others so.

For the summer months, thinking that a change might be good for the