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The things most in demand seem to be corn-cob pipes and tobacco from America, sketch-books, and small boxes of water-colors. The committee also edits and prints a monthly magazine. It is sent to those at the front, and gives them news of their fellow students, and is illustrated, it is not necessary to add, with remarkable talent and humor. It is printed by hand.
He doubtless edits, sets the type, and prints his paper, all alone; but he delights to speak of the concern as if it occupies a block and employs a thousand men. Straightway he airs the affair in the "Territorial Enterprise," in a communication over his own signature, and I propose to reproduce it here, in all its native simplicity and more than human candor.
He arose and walked nervously to and fro, his hands flying in the air. He was very red behind the ears as when in the Classroom some student offended him. " A gambler, a sporter of fine clothes, an expert on champagne, a polite loafer, a witness knave who edits the Sunday edition of a great outrage upon our sensibilities. You want to marry him, this man? Marjory, you are insane.
What that System doesn't control isn't worth having it edits the news before our men get it, and as for grist for the divorce courts, and tragedies, well Hello, Jenkins, yes, a special extra. Change the big heads copy is on the way up rush it." "So you think this Parker case is a mess?" I asked. "I know it. That's a pretty swift bunch of females that have been speculating at Kerr Parker & Co.'s.
Another and admirable feature of certain American papers is a column edited by a man of letters, whose business it is to fill it every day, either with the blossoms of his own intelligence or of outside contributors, or a little of each: such a column as Don Marquis edits for The Sun, called "The Sundial," and Franklin R. Adams for The Tribune, called "The Conning Tower," and Christopher Morley for the New York Evening Post, called "The Bowling Green."
They soon arrived at the small building on a side street where the local paper had its offices, and, indeed, every other thing connected with it, for that matter. "There's Jim sitting in the editor's chair," observed Thad, looking through a dusty window. "Must be Mr. Adoiphus Hanks, who owns and edits the Courier, is out of town just at present.
"He edits the CATHEDRAL MONTHLY," said her hostess, "and he's enormously learned about memorial brasses and transepts and the influence of Byzantine worship on modern liturgy, and all those sort of things. Perhaps he is just a little bit heavy and immersed in one range of subjects, but it takes all sorts to make a good house-party, you know. You don't find him TOO dull, do you?"
There is no Parisian who is not happy in the belief that he makes all the noise he hears, writes all the books he reads, edits all the journals on which he breakfasts, writes all the vaudevilles on which he sups, and invents all the 'bon mots' he repeats. But this flattering allusion vanishes the moment chance takes him a mile away from the Rue Vivienne.
There is no Parisian who is not happy in the belief that he makes all the noise he hears, writes all the books he reads, edits all the journals on which he breakfasts, writes all the vaudevilles on which he sups, and invents all the 'bon mots' he repeats. But this flattering allusion vanishes the moment chance takes him a mile away from the Rue Vivienne.
"He's been in Michigan for a couple of months." "You don't say so! Why, who runs the paper?" "Ferguson and I," said Harry. "I mean who edits it?" "Harry does that," said his fellow-workman. "Whew!" ejaculated Clapp, in surprise. "Why, but two years ago you was only a printer's devil!"
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