| Show NEWSPAPER WRITING tite THE mass of people faney fancy aney ancy that it is the tile simplest thing in the world to edit a newspaper A man may have grave doubts about his talent for ing may freely admit adroit that lie he cannat turn a tune or recognize 1 one when turned by anybody e else eise 1 se may confess that li lie lle i e is no apet not much of a scholar and nothing of an in artist but there is no creature so poor spirited asto avow his incapacity to edit edita a newspaper on the contrary that is a work to which every man has hasa a manifest call comat no matter what his actual business busi busl nessin in this world may be preacher lawyer physician butcher baker or candlestick maker he be has a secret fancy that if he lie only had a chance he could make a newspaper a little bit spicier and livelier than anything in the shape of a public journal pal pai that has ever come this is is one of the tile most amusing and universal weaknesses of latter times the tile number of people who are infected by it is known only to publishers just as the extent to which opium eating is practiced is realized only by druggists and physicians the drawers and waste baskets of every leading newspaper office overflow with evidence of and harmless vanity of the vast public who scribble by stealth and fondly and patiently toil over reams of composition which nobody ean can be induced to print it must be admitted that there is something ething enticing and enviable in editorial edi on toral life as it appears to tho the outside world the delight of gettin getting into brint forthe for the first time is one oneff of est enjoyments enjoy ments of life what therefore we reason must bo be the pleasure of that lappy mail man who daily ta feasts easis the public with his wisdom and whose smallest chib dribbling crib bling finds its way into type without criticism or delay but this reasoning is altogether unsound little boys who cherish the solitary bit of mint stick which a chance penny enable them to buy who enjoy every bite with a keen belh and leel lok hl l their C for the sweet ino sel iel keener leener ami bul bui ever nv when heli hell it t has melted away fancy that the lad in the candy shop who lives in a hooyer hoover of sweets andaas and has hab every variety of an confections confect factions ions lons from which to choose ose oso and as much of eldh each as he waits jt 4 mu must s t he be the very happ happiest lest iest lad in the tc world how grievously bously are they the y mistaken to that unfortunate youth ever since the bigilin beginning Z in of his apprentice ship when nhe n he sickened on a surfeit the sig sight t of the shapely sticks and dainty drops alid and balls is s utterly loathsome his daydreams day dreams aro are of candies candles are his nightmare As wit with li candies candles so with editorials 1 it is e enchanting ne hanting to walte a lucky one which a friendly publisher puts in fair type in ills his leading column you ibave nave written it at your leisure crossed every 1 dotted every i 1 inserted every comma read it in manuscript 0 o half a dozen admiring cronies and the sight of we the delicious periods and well turned phrases staring you in the face from the second page of tie the ct city eity 1 daily dally 1 11 is certainly one of the most thrilling and exhilarating in the world you carry ahat that paper about aboul with you hourly yea oftener in sweet stealth you read the dear effusion and wonder it if til there rc is such a mortal ass extant as to deny it is about the most pointed and elegant r piece of newspaper writ writing inri inci that he lie has bas ever seen you dream and ad dott doit over that sheet till it is black and tattered this is one of the most innocent and blessed of human pleasures it is the solitary mint stick which whets your appetite for sweets but hut the editor that enviable man who feeds on the candy of which you have only got a taste is in truth asun as unhappy and surfeited a person as t that ha t bickle craving lad who weighs out the ori on bons the freshness the tilie exquisite charm of seeing his reflections in print has lon ion long iong ago vanished he writes painfully 1 t and under pressure often times li harass sed by a thousand petty vexations vexatious 1 I ton I 1 s with a gabble of a score of idlers in his ears cars with aching head and weary hand lland his work is ot of oil works the most wearing and vexations vexatious it is treadmill tread mill drudgery it exhausts body and train the call for copy is is inexorable and cannot be refused he must write he must endure the most contemptibly and continual criticisms must bear patiently to be esteemed dull when he cannot be witty when he kinow knowd that he be has been applauded for witty when he knows that lie he has been dull pull I 1 every blockhead who ever spends a dime dinie for his paper feels that he be has purchased there thereby yan an indefeasible indefensible right to dictate the maliner mallner manner in which it shall be conducted to critic criticise ise lse sharply everything that appears in it and to I 1 elevate I 1 its tone with its own asinine lucebra eions fairly written out and in a note demanding their instant ion lon consigned signed a paying subscriber ono one buys your weekly or it briner a aT 6 ormer purchaser ser of your campaign 11 it you were to ask this modest friend to cut rou you on a coat or measure you for a pair ot of boots lie he would indignantly reply that that was not his trade that lie he knew nothing about it and would not attempt it but the diffidence which seirin shrinks ks k s from shears and cooly draws back from the awl and the lap stone boldly grasps the pen and undertakes to instruct and illuminate the world breeches and shoes require art ex perince reflection in their mait malt making ing political essays now flow spontaneous from the most addled pate or can be pumped out of it by sneer sheer hand labor without the aid of the vulgar of study knowledge and thought philadelphia age A PHYSICIAN was deci deel declaiming almin I 1 the other day upon the propensity w which alch tich a majority of people dispi display ay for eat eating g unripe fruit and vegetables there ethere is not said lie he a vegetable growing in our gardens that is not best when arrived at maturity and most of them are injurious unless fully ripe hipe 1 I 1 know one though that aint so good when its ripe p as itis green interrupted a little boy in in a very confidential but modest manner that sharply said the physician vexed at elpie ciple dispi disputed itei itel bya by byn a mere boy A cu buil I 1 d 1 0 l fa lod I 1 tho the dt doctor or winked with both eyes but said nothing le lebon bon non ton Ti THICKLY lickly SETTLED the po population uia ula tion of the phinese chinese empire including the provincial dependences is established at the greatest number of k persons at present exi exl existing stin under one government govern Rovern ment the land area of the entire 11 domain is square miles 0 which places the population per square mile at a density of persons fifteen souls soul more smore than that of belgium long regarded as the most dense on record ricord these those statistics are gleaned arpin an work recently copied and translated from the ori orl original giDal archives by it M J her Maje treasurer of Vrn orn sular and diplomatic ser sen Servi nips eps cpa H nr ng kong j |
