The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-01-03
The Delight. lof the sanctum.

Here is how writer in the Detroit Free
Press talks about the pleasure peculiar to the
deep grim silence of the sanctum:- 81
"No one ever comes mp into the rooms of the
Ton story of a four-story building set apart for
the staff of daily paper. This is why every
article reads so evenly and smoothly. All you'v
got to do if you belong to the staff is to climb
up there, sit all day long in the deep, grim ST.
lence, and when midnight comes you can lower
yourself down stairs with consciousness that
every article will read like clock-work.
Yesterday morning l commenced an article St1!a!t
entitled '"The Unseen Influences of the Spirit
World" and had got as far as to say that Al
though we hear no voices, there is some subtle
influence pervading the" when man came
up with a demand for correction OF an article
charging him with bigamy. You have 10
keep right on with an idea when you get hold
of it, and SO / run him in:
- Peryading the air about you all the time re-
ter Smith has called at this Office to say that
the unheard voices coming from the dead often
swerve us from he isn't the man mentioned as
having two wives the path marked out Dy the
Obstinate
(Here another man came in and wanted = no
tice 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 120 feet deep. At night, after day
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
take great pleasure in setting Smith right be-
fore his fellow-citizens and"
Here a man came up and wanted to look at
State map, although he could have found one
down stairs
aCertainly, sir; look at all the State maps
| you want to, and call back the spirit of some
| dear friend gone before as will ascertain the
name of the policeman who wrongfully accused
Mr.. Smith of having frontage on Michigan
avenue, which helps the look of that street very
| II q III. .cI I.1o
further to the left of that land from which no
one has ever returned to tell us whether our
friends are sad or joyful"
(Here boy came up and wanted to sell some
tonka beans to keep moths off,
| 'eThank We, bub, don't want any tonka beans
if you ever want to look at any more of our
maps come right mp with Mansard roof to
crown all, and Smith is now set right before the
public and his friends generally, who have
| thus improved the town and commune with
| them as to whether moment of sadness does
not occasionally steal over them as they think
| of the fond friends left behind come up again
and I'll talk with you about the tonka beans
and every patriotic citizen ought to keep State
map in his new block on Michigan avenue
| Smith states that one of his wives deserted him
in Illinois and the other
Here subscriber came in and wanted to
know why no paper was issued the day after
Thanksgiying.)
'Because it was day set apart for one hun
dred and forty flour widows in the entire block
with tonka beans enamelled on State maps to
mourn their early departure through the valley
and the shadow of death don't want you to
bother me auy more Mr. Smith about your
wives and come bub get right down stairs now
with your beans to that spirit land where all
4 Joy and peace the compositors wanted a holiday
and it's against the principles of Christianity
to" 2 40 a.
Here boy came up with basket of ap-
PIES .s.Fs
-"Forever more can't eat apples owing to
my teeth and Smith is now made good for any
beans which any State map connected with
this office has, nothing but JOY and peace to
mark the never-ending time I'll break your
that the new block spoken of hasno bigamy to
prove the moths don't apple the tonka beans