The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-01-22
Editorial Troubles.

spot in the world than an editorial sane
tum. II you doubt it, Just ask any man
who has spent several years there, wear
ing out his brains in perpetual efforts tc
write first-class articles, and having the
same brains bothered every five minutes
by people who can't understand how glo'
riously he is enjoying himself. Here is
how writer in the Detroit Free Press
talks about the pleasures peculiar to the
deep, grim silence Of the sanctum.
No one ever comes up into the rooms
Of the top story Of four story building,
set apart for the staff of da.iy paper.
This is why every article reads so evenly
and smoothly. All you've got to do il
you belong to the staff is to climb up
there, sit all day long in the deep, grim
silence, and when midnight comes you
can lower yourself down stairs with a
consciousness that every article will read
like clock-work.
Yesterday morning commenced an
article entitled "The Unseen Influences
OF tho Spirit World, and had gone as
far as to say that Although we hear no
voices, there is some subtle influence per-
yading the" when man came up
with demand for correction Of nm ar
ticle charging him with bigamy. You
have to keep right on with M idea when
you get hold OF it, and 30 run him in.
"Pervading the air about ycu all the
time Peter Smith has called Mt this Office
to say that the unheard voices coming
from the dead often swerye us from he
isn't the man mentioned as having two
wives the path marked out by the obsi-
nate"
Here another man came in and wanted
notice Of his new building,)
spirits which refuse to yield to that
new block on Michigan Avenue, although
Smith is directly charged by the police
with marble front and 100 feet deep.
At night, after days toll, who does not
love to sit down and let his mind run to
the mysterious, shadowy basement under
it and stone caps above the windows we
tako great pleasure in setting Smith right
before his iellow.citizens, and"
Here man came mp and wanted to
Lovo fornJ ono Jowp sta;rs
- {" Carto;nI,. s;r iooI ~ all ,ho S,oto
mors vor ~ani 10 onJ | coiI hack the mir.
II ~ soma Jenr fr;onJ cone hoforo no will
ascorto;n tbe % Name I nS tSe noIiceman who
,rron - % It'll. , aonnao, ~ Sn,;tL 81 ba,;nn
h frnntanc nn W;Ch;1an Iyorne wh;cS
helms he loot n tbSf street yery mncb
and Won vii And tbe county of Hillsdols
TnrtIor to thn ioG ~ thst ionJ FROM
whioL NJ " onn 1 h.s v'. orar , roturnoJ to t"iI
os wbotber orr fr;ends ore sod or ioy.
SnI ~ y ' '''' "'N ~
THore n hov ,omo nm and w,rtod IN
soIi @ aono tonGo ~ beans T tp %nen t%s moths
offl r ''''' ''1A" Jeans ~ NJ" '''
/" Tbo,l vo bub don't wort orv ton.
Ia hoons % n r9r % eysr D% want ram IN % ioot ~ any
more I u Of omr M" mans e'I, come % risbt I'm with y
Monsord Man ~ roof ~ crown iii and Smith ;s
now sst r;Sbt heSoyo tbe nnbI;c md his
friends censrnIIy who have fins i'm.
nroveI he town and commune with
tbo,n ao 10 r,Lo,l,ar " nomant ~ sodnoss
Joos not I " o,oas;onoiIr stoaI ovor tbom nc
thsS S th;nG III ~ ~ tIe fond friends Iaft behind
come M o,r,;n and ri taIk wifi ynu
abont t5e t9nta boans and every natriot.
il c;t;yen oua%t to Eoen " Stats man in
biS new blocf op NTicbignn Avenne Smith
stotss thot one of his wives lescrted him
in IlIinois Snd tbo otber-"
Woro q "mbscr;bor came in and wontaa