When Howard began, Coulter was at Aiken where Jocelyn had a cottage. He had
never been able to make headway with Jocelyn, and Mrs. Jocelyn deigned to
give him and Mrs. Coulter only the coldest of cold nods. Just as Coulter
had become so agitated by Howard's radical course that he was preparing to
go to New York to remonstrate with him, Jocelyn called.
"I came to thank you for what you are doing with your paper," he said
cordially. "It seems to me that all intelligent men who are not blind to
their own ultimate interests ought to stand by you. I can't tell you how
much I admire your frankness and honesty. And you draw the line just right.
You attack plunder, you defend property. Will your wife and you dine with
us this evening?"
Coulter postponed his trip to New York.
On the last day of the first three months the circulation of the
_News-Record_ was 147,253--an increase of 42,150 over what it was on
the day Howard took charge; its advertising had increased twelve per cent;
its net profits for the quarter were seventy-five thousand dollars as
against fifty-seven thousand for the preceding quarter.
"Very good indeed," was Stokely's comment.
"Another quarter like this," said Howard, "and I'm going to ask you to let
me increase expenses a thousand dollars a week to illustrate the paper.
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