It was called "Contrariwise," and sparkled with the promise of youth, and contained that gem of mine, which you cannot have forgotten, "The Compressed Vacuum Pill. "

"Putter Perkins," a staid and scientific chronicle, has found more favor with the publishing men, and so I am dedicating it to you now in place of the little volume which still lies darkly sparkling in the bottom of my trunk — like a diamond undiscovered in the depths of a diamond mine.For some years he was in newspaper work in Boston, New York, Baltimore, and Chicago.

He worked for a short time at The Boston Journal in 1891, and later at the New York Herald and Baltimore News.

[6] From 1896 through 1897, Brown worked as a reporter for the Chicago Inter Ocean, leaving to serve as an editorial writer in New York, for the Commercial Advertiser until 1900.

Together they interviewed several leaders including Constantine I of Greece and Eleftherios Venizelos, the Greek politician.