Show from other pens carlton in his editorial poem tells us of an old farmer who made his way into the sanctum with a runt of a boy who being good for nothing else the farmer thought would do for an editor the poet tells the story as follows we run it solid as being as solid a set of questions as perhaps were ever asked a country youth the editor sat in the sanctum and looked the old man in the eve then glancing at the grinning hopeful and mournfully made his reply Is your son a small unbound edition of moses and solomon botha can he compass his spirit with meekness and strangle a natural oath oatha can he leave all his wrongs in the future and carry his heart in his cheek ca can I 1 i he do an hours work in a minute and live on a six pence a weeke can he courteously talk to an equal and brow beat an impudent dunce can he keep things in apple pie order and do halt half a dozen tasks at once can he press all the springs of knowledge with a quick and reliable touch and be sure to know how much to know and how much not to know does he know how to stir up his virtue and put a check rein on his pride can he carry a gent lemons lemens manners within a rhinoceros hide can he know all do all with cheerfulness chebi falness ful ness courage and vim if so we can make an editor out 0 him the farmer stood curiously listening while wonder his visage beer spread and he said jim I 1 guess well be goin hes probably out of his head lifted |