Show MIS EDITORIAL QUICKLY READY new york paper tells good story on southern journalist A certain editorial writer on the staff of a southern newspaper was in dined to during certain periods of conviviality and caused thereby much concern in the breast of the foreman of the composing comi osing room just prior to the moment when the forms must go to press but the writ er was a part owner of the paper and could not well be discharged since be occupied the of managing ed aitor many times the editorials were late and the paper delayed in going to press but the delinquent writer al waye made good after a fashion finally he hit upon a scheme when he was called upon at the last moment tor copy that may in all justice to expediency be called the art of gen lus the hour was very late and no lead ing editorial had gone to the compos ing room in frantic haste the fore man sent for the editorial writer and only after half an 1 our was he located in a nearby saloon and much the worse for bis dalliance there he grasped the intelligence that he had forgotten his leading column and made his way as fast as he could to his office snatching a piece of copy paper in one band he caught up a copy of the new york times with the ether and aiom it a leading editorial which he pasted on the pa per then he wrote we cannot agree with the new york times when it says the editorial of the times was cop led the paper went to press and the editor back to the saloon new york times |