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Show j SOME HORSE SENSE. Those individuals who know so much about running a newspaper, and who say what they would do if they were only the editor, want to read this chunk of wisdom from a man who knew what he was talking about: Don't pick up a newspaper, my friend, and expect to read classics. I 1 not say that you do this, but you frequently act as if you did, or that you only refrain from so doing because o: the many disappointments you have suffeied heretofore in that way. The newspaper is not calculated to talk to you in the language of Johnson, the satire of Lamb, or the poetry of Spencer. Spen-cer. The newspaper is for the common com-mon people. A purveyor of news, and a vehicle of knowledge to ths man who lives in a cave or a palace, whose life runs in a channel of trade or on the broad stream of commerce. The reporter who hurriedly throws together a column of important news or a startling start-ling dispatch for the home paper does not have time to read it .for all its meanings, or to wait and find out ! how it would sound to-morrow or to pos terity. He uses the words that come qu ickest to convey his crowded thought. The lead of his pencil is hardly cooled until the lead of the type is warm in the press, and quickly the words are warm again at the fireside of the reader. It is warm work, lie-number lie-number this, then, when you pick up the paper and note, perhaps, a few errors er-rors of syntax or in statement of fact that have erf pt in. Ask yourself how much better you yourself could do if you had to work as the reporter does. It is one thing to write a column of matter and take all the time you wish for it. It is quite another thing to be i :n, mi'.Y1 in'-Sit0 a column of matter i ,lJiii M .i...... r; '' h :t t. goesig.-i-i'j I I lJn doing work leisurely leisure-ly and on the dead run. Try it once and you will see. The man who hur- j l ies and writes, day after dty, through ! a lifetime, has said much for good or ior evil when he comes to die, and it is possible too that Irom all he has wiitten there might be culled paragraphs para-graphs or columns that, bound in a book, would make him known to the i countless millions whom, it is rumored, I will come after us. j |
