This was the _World_.

He offered me the editorship with forty-nine of the hundred shares of stock on very easy terms, which nowise tempted me.

But two or three years after, I daresay both weary and hopeless of putting up so much money on an unyielding investment, he was willing to sell outright, and Joseph Pulitzer became the purchaser.
His career is another illustration of the saying that truth is stranger than fiction.
II Joseph Pulitzer and I came together familiarly at the Liberal Republican Convention, which met at Cincinnati in 1872--the convocation of cranks, as it was called--and nominated Horace Greeley for President.

He was a delegate from Missouri.

Subsequent events threw us much together.