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Show JUST A NEWSPAPER MAN. Bit of a priest and bit of a sailor, Lit of a doctor and bit of a tailor. Lit of a lawyer, and bit of detective, detec-tive, Bit of a judge, for his work is corrective; cor-rective; Cheering the living and soothing the dying. Risking all things, even dare-devil flying; True to his paper anil true to his clan Just look him over, the newspaper man. Cleep! There are times that he'll do with a little, Work till his nerves and his temper are brittle; Fire cannot daunt him, nor long hours disturb him, Gold cannot buy him and threats cannot curb ilim; Highbrow or lowbrow, your own speech he'll hand you, Talk as you will to him, re'll understand un-derstand you; He'll go wherever another man can, That is the way of the newspapei man. burgeon, if urgent the need be, you'll find him, Ready to help, nor will dizziness blind him, Say the last rites like a priest a! the altar; Gentle and kind with the weak and weary, Which is proved now and tftet 1 when his keen eye ' grows teary, Facing all things in lif's curious plan. That is the way of the newspaper man. One night a week may he rest fron- his labor, One night at home to be father and neighbor, Just a few hours for his own bit or leisure. -Vll the rest's gazing at otlier men'b pleasure, All the rest's toiling, and yet he rejoices All the world is, and that men do, he voices Who knows a calling more glorious glori-ous than he dr.y-by-day work of the newspaper news-paper man? " Edgar A. Guest. . (Re-printed from the National Editor's Argus.) |