The Post Where "I Have Nothing At All To Say"

Today's Person of Interest: O'Henry

I have read at least one of O'Henry's writings and I didn't know it until I got to the end of this devotional entry. He wrote among many many other writings "The Gift of the Magi". I know all of you have read some version of this wonderful tale. Whether it be in school or during the holidays on some delightfully cheesy claymation special. This story brings me to tears and I am sure I am not the only one. It's sweet and heartfelt story of love, so when I discovered the very same author edited and published a satirical magazine called the rolling stone I was very intrigued.

THE
ROLLING STONE
is a weekly paper published in Austin, Texas
every Saturday and will endeavor to fill a
long-felt want that does not appear,
by the way, to be altogether in-
satiable at present.

THE IDEA IS
to fill its pages with matter that will make a
heart-rending appeal to every lover of
good literature, and every person who
has a taste for reading print;
and a dollar and a half for
a year's subscription.

OUR SPECIAL PREMIUM
For the next thirty days and from that time
on indefinitely, whoever will bring two dol-
lars in cash to The Rolling Stone office
will be entered on the list of sub-
scribers for one year and will
have returned to him
on the spot
FIFTY CENTS IN CASH


This is the add I found while researching Mr. O Henry and his magazine. 

And below this I found an especially funny piece of writing that was featured in said magazine.

NOTHING TO SAY

"You can tell your paper," the great man said,
"I refused an interview.
I have nothing to say on the question, sir;
Nothing to say to you."

And then he talked till the sun went down
And the chickens went to roost;
And he seized the collar of the poor young man,
And never his hold he loosed.

And the sun went down and the moon came up,
And he talked till the dawn of day;
Though he said, "On this subject mentioned by you,
I have nothing whatever to say."

And down the reporter dropped to sleep
And flat on the floor he lay;
And the last he heard was the great man's words,
"I have nothing at all to say."

I would have loved to be able to get my hands on this magazine today. It seems like it would be well worth the dollar fifty yearly fee.

Some fun facts about O Henry, He was a licensed pharmacist at the age of nineteen. While working on his publication The Rolling Stone, he worked for a bank that he was later charged embezzling from. He fled to Honduras. but he eventually returned and turned himself in. He wrote from prison and under his pen name published to a number of magazines that had no idea he was incarcerated.

If you have any comments about O Henry or any of his publications leave them in the coments.