Pitt-Wayne County NcArchives News.....Buck Hearne 1893
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Daily Charlotte Observer 1893
30 Apr 1893

"One of the most remarkable men, in my judgment," said John R. Morris, at the 
Central Hotel the other day, "that the State has ever produced, was Buck 
Hearne. He was reared in Pitt County and was a mill wright. When young he 
entered the army, and after the war blossomed out as an editor - at Wilson, 
Raleigh and Goldsboro. Nobody ever caught him reading a book, and yet he was 
full of knowledge of every kind.

"While he was the editor of the daily paper at Goldsboro, I was a kid and 
devil in the printing office. He never wrote an editorial until the last 
minute and many a time I have had to go to his room, wake him up and ask him 
for his copy. He would call for his pad, prop himself up on his pillows, make 
me sit down, and as fast as he could run his hand across the paper would throw 
off his stuff. But every thought in it was prefectly digested and every 
sentence was fit to go into a book.

"He was a wonderful writer, wonderful in his readiness and power. I have known 
him to get up in the middle of the afternoon, eat his dinner, then walk the 
pavement, up and down, in front of the hotel, pulling his moustache in that 
peculiar way of his, until night, and never speak to anybody. He was thinking 
then, and it was this thinking that enabled him to turn off those powerful 
editorials at a moment's notice - they were all thought out and there was 
nothing for him to do but to put them on paper.

"He wouldn't work. He would go to the office late at night, turn off his 
editorial, read the proof of it, and run over the exchanges - he could suck 
any paper dry in two minutes and that was the end of it. He was an editorial 
writer - that was all. He had an infirmity" said Morris, "but I always bowed 
to his genius."


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