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Show Editor Carnegie I'T is said Andy Carnegie intends to start a newspaper. One paper looks upon it as a sign that Andy never will get out of trouble; another that it is a clear proof that he intends to die poor. Our own idea is that if he starts a newspaper it will be In the interest of his own soul. He is very rich, naturally a little vain, and he has been petted and praised and puffed up so much of late, that we suspect the thought has taken hold of him that what he is and what he has done is due altogether to the great heart-edness heart-edness and great headedness of Andy himself. Now, we do not know the man, who, as a rule, does not feel competent to either run a newspaper newspa-per right, or to superintend a quartz mine, and we suspect that Andy, deep down, has an Idea that with a newspaper through which he can be heard daily, he will establish that, had he not chosen to be a steel king, he. would have been the greatest editor in the world. And that is what, perhaps, is to save his soul. He is perfectly satisfied, no doubt, that he can write anywhere from three to seven columns col-umns a day, that will come upon the world, very much as what happened when on that first morning morn-ing of creation God- said, "Let there be light." And that is where we think there is a chance to save Andy's soul. He will bo very prolific and profound the first three days. After that ho will begin to feel a sort of all-goneness in his intellectual stomach. By the end of the first week he will wonder what in the world men find to fill a newspaper with every day. At the end of two weeks he will discover dis-cover that his head is, after all, a reservoir, and not a spring, and it will make him modest. At the end of the fourth week he will heartily wish that he had never established the paper, and the chances are he will be looking around for brilliant bril-liant writers, to fill the space that he thought he could fill without any trouble. r o succeed generally, men have to be trained to some employment. No man would take a broken watch to a blacksmith; rio man would trust a severe case of illness to a quack, knowingly; knowing-ly; no man would permit a chump to put out for him an asparagus bed; but mosf any man thinks that neither training nor careful preparation has tmmtiJtj)lrfmllfUttallmtamitnmr .ate. ,. s r aWMMMWnftlfcjl anything to do with running a newspaper. That 'H what is needed is a man in whose hand "the pen H is entirely great," and the majority of them think H that they have the hand. After a. few weeks' trial H they are sadder but wiser men, and we suspect H it will be that way with Mr. Carnegie. H |