A PUBLISHER'S STORY

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 18, 1897

A PUBLISHER'S STORY.

James Harper, of the publishing firm, had a fund of droll wit which is well illustrated by the following incident:—

On a certain occasion a clergyman, who had consumed an hour of his time in small talk, said to the publisher, “Brother Harper, I am curious to know how you four men distribute the duties of the establishment between you.” Mr. Harper replied, good-humoredly, “John attends to the finances, Wesley settles all the correspondence, Fletcher attends to the general bargaining with authors and others, and—you need not tell anybody,” he said, drawing his chair up closer and speaking in a lower tone of voice, “I entertain the bores.”—Ex.