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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: At this time one of his Eastern friends, Mr. Joseph R. Hawley, had become the editor of a Republican paper just started in Hartford, Conn., The Press. He wished Charles Warner to assist him in the editorship, and went to Chicago to try to induce him to return to the East and to live in Hartford. Small time was lost in coming to a decision, but what could they do with the pleasant house? At that moment Wirt Dexter determined to marry and wanted a place to live. The lease was assumed by him, but how about the furnishings? Oh, said Warner, I paid just so many hundred dollars for everything in this house, and you shall have it all for that if you will. The money was paid, the Warners went to Hartford; the following year General Hawley was called to the war and Warner took the sole editorship of The Evening Press. He would have gone to the war himself except for his extreme short-sightedness, which forced him to stay at home and serve the country by his pen. This service he never quitted. After the war he and his friend were able to buy the Hartford Courant, and consoh'date the two papers, making a powerful journal which has always held its own and something more. It would be deeply interesting to follow his war papers from day to day, but we can only refer to them here. One summer when the hearts of men were very low Warner said: Look here, this will never do; suppose I write a few editorials during these weeks of August which shall give people something to laugh about and something to think about that is cheerful? He went to his desk and every week printed one of the editorials afterward put together in the book called My Summer in a Garden, and published by Fields
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