The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-04-25
Personal and Pointed Inquiries.

Personal anna A'OIuIcu Auquhrhes.
We yield to the earnest request OF
our esteemed friend in giving place to
the following:
Col. POWER:
Dear Sir: As general rule, don't bother
my head with other peoples affairs; but you
are such an unexplicable fellow, that must
require some enlightenment as to your modus
operdndi in business. am curious to know,
and so are many other folks, how you manage
to do as many things as devolve upon you,
and always contrive to be ION hand" and
despatch everything in due season9 I'll tell
you some of the work know you contrive to
execute. How many other things you do, of
course, cannot tell You superintend every
department of the extensive Clarion Office
2 from the "Deuip up, and keep the whole
affair working like good clock. You notice
everything and everybody in the local col
umn, and occasionally, when the editor is
sick or absent, you grind out Headers" You
are furnishing legs and arms for all the
MANNED soldiers, and sending everywhere
letters and forms, and instructions innumer-
able. You keep up the Army Records, and
disburse funds donated for the destitute. All
the business correspondence of the Clarion is
conducted by you. When Free Masons con-
gregate, the inevitable Power is there,
operating in the higher and lower |
mysteries. am told you are some
times there, when the Odd Fellows have
work to do. You are some at Sunday
School, and Deacon Power" is never missed
at the Presbyterian Church. You are al,says
at public meetings, balls shows professions
and every place of amusement You Eight
fire" with the machine" boys like very
ID, and attend every meeting at the en-
CINE house. believe you are an officer in
the Company; are you not2 At all events,
you are an officer every where else. You are
secretary of conventions and public meetings
generally and 1t don't "set you back" in
the least, to clerk" for the House of Repre-
sentatives. You seem to have time to visit,
and knock round" with good fellows, and
give audience to all strangers who call at
the Clarion office, and their name is '1e-
gion" You grind machine poetry for car
Iier's Address, by whole yards-and write
jinglng rhymes for school children to recite.
In addition, you are said to be q good wood
chopper and gardner at home, and keep
things in order about "the lot" You set
type, feed the press, run on errands, manage
the finances, read proof and glance over all
the exchanges, and you have made the best
index the statutes of Mississippi ever had.
Lastly, you manage your own personal do 4
nestle matters, and hare found time
10 be the father Of an increasing family Of =
nice children : Now, my good friend, what we
al want to know is this: How do you man. b
age to dispatch such an amount of bust /
1essl Is it true, that one head can be mind i
ul of so many things Have you, really, Z
'nly two hands9 Are you not gifted with j
lbiquity If not, why are you everywhere 3
It the same time? Do you euer sleep2 1t =,
annot be that you do: for you hurry home, m
ike gliding spectre, between midnight and p
lay, and before day you are back at the of. al
ice, doing something by gas-light, before 4
he boys come in to work. Do you ever I,
at anytblng2 Don't you, in fact, "bolt"
our food How long, Oh, Powerful work
+, do you expect soul and body to keep to- of
,ether, at this rate2 l demand that you M
rint this letter, and answer my questions. 1
he great public" crave enlightenment. en-
ont be modest about the matter, but pnb err
sh this letter and answer it quick. 20
Yours &C.,
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