The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1866-12-12

tfe 4Est~e % tsa klk Singer IS 5s51g struck
10 one c9raef Is the editorial lablesslrewn
WIGS exchanges, backed by q case Of pigeon
il5la sarmoa1ted by dnss haETimned bast
Of old Dan Webster.
I Butwhere are the editors metbinks you
ask. Do you sec that man with44s sleeves
rolled up, working the press? His coat and
vest are off, and you can see thathis pants are
held up by uspender-suspended by but
a single thread, asst were. Occasionally he
shoyes the hair back from his sweaty, yet
massive brow, leaving inky marks upon his
\ forehead, and then he jaws the boy who as
ssts him-giyes the devil his due, as it were
That, sir, is Plunkins, the proprietor and Sc
NOR editor of the Ink Singer There he is,
~ that sublime Inconsistencies Of greatness
which ever marks the Truly great. You
wouldn't believe that brawny and inky hand,
which works tie crank 50 vigorously, has
penned editorials that have carried consterna-
ton into the Tuilleres and shook the British
throne to its very foundation Well, YOU don't
have to.
When he asks his foreman for "chaw
terbacccr," and pauscs refectively while he
bites of liberal amount Of plug" You
cannot imagine what mighty thought is taking
Z
very confines Of the earth in the columns Of
the next weeks Ink Singer, Of course you
can't
How now? alb here comes the junior edi-
tor, Chubb, and takes seat at the table. He
has been out to collect :. bill Of Snowman
for twenty-five half-sheet posters, on yellow
paper, and finding that the Snowman had
slipped away in the night, he is naturally a
little rufled. His hat, which is a little loo
large for him, Is little rufled too lie sWears
and tHesys tobacco ard has way ofsciecting
tobacco juice from behind his front teeth.
You wouldn't take that man TO be one OF the
most promising Joung stars in the newspa-
pera armament.
Look at him casually and observing that
his paper collar had been turned, you wouldn't
say, this is q man who, in the course Of the
next fifty OF sixty years, is 70 be the moving
spirit Of the Ink Singer, as he is now one of
It's principal lights as we'll IS tolerable liver.
No, You wouldn't say that. But time will
tell lie is very young, not over ifty-six or
seven, yet he has been prodigous traveller
walking from Buffalo to Albany many time
when he drove ON the canal. After saving
little wood for the Office stove, he will set
up puff for saloon across the way, then 90
IN and work 1t ont. In this line Of humor be
is without a rival in America
That sedate-looking man working al the
" case " by the window, edits the religious
department. He does it evenings. He stands
high in the church-up in the gallery He
keeps a volume Of the Pilgrims Progress "
on his case, which he pores over. The stains
On it were caused by some printer boys pour
ing oTerit-they poured pitcher Of beer over
it.
That lad working by his side goes out oc-
caslonaIly to pick up items of local interest
for the paper He has remarkable talent for
picking up things One nighthe came in with
two pairs OF fowls and can of oysters that
he had picked up.
Besides these principal editors Of the Ink
Singer, there are a number Of " occasional
writer's who drop in. Here is BIohhs g.. Il Il.
nanpr mill naa-,--i-~ z-e.o written occasionally
Tor several years past to have an old paper
bill settled and has come to see about IT, There
is an odor Of steamed straw and rags about
him. tits worth something to see the manner
in which the mighty Plunkins puts him of.
Plunkins says he looks for his &" war cores
pondent" every minute, and shows a note. in |.
which correspondent informs him that he is
comingto clean out " the Office He means
war, evidently The door opens suddenly and
in he comes-an excited man with red face
and a red cowhde Fighting editor, who has
been practicing vigorously with dumb-belIs
ever since our entrance, lights upon him, and /
out he goes upon the landing. The face Of
the senior editor shines with a serene and
heavenly light, as the body Of the war cores
pondent is heard to bound rapidly down two
pairs of stairs.
The correspondent who is continually wri-
ting 70 the Ink Singer communications, com
planning Of some terrible outrage upon the
public, such as negecting to place a milestone
in Squawbush township, when it is notorious
that there ar two in the township Immediately
adjoining, and who signs himself Justice =
drops in. He wears iron how'd spectacles and
iron-gray hair his clothes don't fit him very
we'll and there is perpetual scowl upon his
face and growl in bis voice He is pleasant
man 10 have around.
Then there is Constant Reader" who is
dropping in to read the exchanges,
always getting very much in the way and
: A subscrberof thirty -four years standing"
who has a subscription account standing for
thirty five years at least.
The ExPREssIoN OF THE EYE.-They play
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