They wanted to see Carpentter. The
affair had an international tinge. I
don't see how anybody could have j
failed to see from the very start, that |
Dempsey and C&rpentier would be a
great attraction. The gossip had
headed that way and there was no
way of stopping it, even if we had
tried.
Why, we tried for two years to get
Carpentier over here before he finally
came. When the French government
put its foot down on the proposition j
toward the end of the war, even that
did not £ill the interest.
As I say, the newspapers do it all. j
A man in any line of business can find
a chance for success in the news
papers every day if he will only read
them with care and with common
sense. Gossip is the clue to public
desire, and in a city the newspapers
furnish the only way we have of get
ting at it.
In the Klondike and a^ong the Yukon
all the big gold strikes were the re
sult of gossip.
“What did you hear up north?” we
would ask of strangers in those days,
and we went by what we heard—if it
was straight talk.
“What did you see in the news
papers?” we ask today. ✓
The wise man pays attention. The
unwise one simply reads and forgets.
I was taught to think straight in a
hard school, as I will now show.
CHAPTER II
The Second Herd North Of 36.
