The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-03-23
"An Editor In HeaHen.n

"Such is the caption of an article which has
been going the rounds of the papers for some
time and which appears to be something new
"under the sun."
Just as if editors were not in the habit Of
going to Heaven. Well venture to say that q
greater proportion of them 60 to that home OF
those who have performed their mission Of
mercy on earth, than any other profession OF
calling that poor mortals fill.
-"An editor in Heayenp' There's nothing
strange about that, at all. It's almost a moral
as well as professional impossibility for them 10
20 anywhere else.
Once upona time, after the demise Of men,-
Der of the "corps editorial" he presented him
self at the gate of the "Holy City" and re-
quested admission. The door keeper asked
him what had been his occupation on Terra
Fwma. He replied that he twas an editor y
"Well," said the Watehman, Eve have crowd
of your kind here now, and they all came in as
! dead heads." If You can pay your passage
You can come In, If not you must place your
self under the control of q parsonage you
"ruled" tyrannically down below lmeaning the
our brother Of the 1quill and scissors" posted
off and presented himself at the entrance Of
"Clootie's" dark domains. A very dark conf
plexioned gentleman stood sentry, and asked in
a pruff voice, "who comes 2" "An humble dis
ciple of Faust" was the calm reply. 'Then
hold on, you can't be admitted" exclaimed the
"Gentleman in Black" evincing considerable
agitation, and 6ercely scowling on him. "Why
not" demanded the TYPO" who began to get
some what 'hufish" and looked around for a
"sheep's foot" with which to force an entrance.
"Well, sir" replied his sable Majesty, I'VE
let one of your profession in here many years
ago and he kept up a continual row with his
| former delinquent subscribers, and as We have
more of that class of persons here than any
other, we have passed o law prohibiting the ad-
mission of any editors, only these who have
advanced our interest in their papers on earth,
and even those we keep in separate room by
themselves. You have published many, things
that operated against lis, and always oiamea
the "Devil" with every thing that went wrong,
80 you can't come in. We enforce this rule
without respect to persons, for our OWN peace
and safety. You can just travel" Casting o
droll leer at the outside sentinel, our typo,
grenh;cal friend started of again, determined
70 yet in CUP above" This time he took with
him an old ile of his paper and presenting 1t
TO the guardian of che Celestial City, requested
that Il might be carefully examined, and they
would see whether he was entitled to . free
ticket In due course of time the conductor
came along and took him in, telling him that
he published many good things, and had been
martyr to the cause of human improvement
and that resolutions had been passed to admit
all members of the cart prsservativeo who had
abused the "Devil" while below. he added
that as they were punished enough by their
being with the "deviln all their lives, their fu-
ture punishment was committed. He further
stated that not one delinquent newspaper SUD-
acr;her could be found in all Heaven.