The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-07-26
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lie nnmomrlst m Of the Detroit Free Rsss
observes that there is always one e vacant nntt
cnslr IN tue saDotasnR Of eVefydaily paf,erI
or It would bevacated for the rinht man :
Il IS the position Of 1: feaf1y.veyv vs,l,s' gnad
oaft@We-fAvehstr ROM foftit, ',itilan!' {vbeh
q. young maj, wearing a very exultsnt
countefance, walks into the editorial
rooms wiuhia bundle Of rflaifuscript ilnfler,
ms arp. al the staff know Nhatis COM
ing: lie has been writing an ode fo
spring, Or poem on the fast disappearing
indian race, Oh 1--WE hundred verses on the
power OF love. It's really wonderful how
sangulne he is. 20 He has selected this par
1lc9lar paper asa great favor to the paper,
aLu nels certain that the publishers won't
thfnk OF offering ffflf leks than q dollar q
verse. and that aftsr they have handed
MN the !. money they will pat him on the
nach anu say, "GO on, Young man, there
IS asWeaIth OF iaurels for you in the fu-
lure" He walks around the roomsa few
.,Ihes 20 collect himself, and then goes for
the nearest man! He is referred to ssthe
man in the other room," and the man in
him erter. Here's few verses on
springtime which I dashed off the other
day. says the young man. as he deposits
the roll on the table :7ssEvort can look them
over, and will call for the money ,Satur-
day." He goes out, and the recipient Of
the roll unrolls ft, feels his hair raise up
as he sees that some lines have ten 'feet. =
others six, and that a pile, driver could
not pound the meter into slispe.% He puts
u away. and begins to dread Saturday.
Saturday comes. and with it the young
man, who expects check and q COM
pliment. He sits down, and there is q
long pause. The editor would rather tackle
a Bogar1ns kicker than to say what he
must say, but he anallysgets aroundto it.
Very goOd--seasOnable-- written
but, all !-ahem we haven't room. for it
just at present i you'd better send it to
the New York Poet.' That young man
gets up with an awful look Of contempt
and revenge on 4lia face, seizes the roll,
and he goes out feeling that he shall be an
enemy of the paper, the editors, reporters,
compositors, and apprentices forever af-
ter This is only an illustrative case.
There is the woman who has written nine
teen verses on her dead baby; the old
maid who has hashed up a ballad and
wants to be br9qght out as the author ;
the young man III 1ove Who has written q
poem on his Haurnh and five or six others,
each one must be. refused in such man
y
his feelings will beswounded. If he hadn't
cent in the world, and was in need Of
bread, he wouldn't feel half SO bad to be
refused cash loan as he would to be told
that his poetry wasn't firstclass, and that
he'd better turn his attention to a trade.
The poets are not ALL There is the man
with the Essay ION Sober Second
Thought the, man with the two col
t,mfis On ''The Degeneration Of An ricari
Politics, p and tho scores of men with es-
says on this and that, which ne one but
the writer would read. They must be met,
repulsed and got rid Of; and, though the
editor is as tender as a lover, the chances
are that within three days he will receive
letter reading something like this:
DEAR SIR: Owing to the fact that
my article on the 'Rejuvenation Of Mum,
mies' did not appear in your issue Of
Wednesday, you can stop my paper, ,,,,d |
shall subscribe to the Ark, which is a i've
go-ahead daily, fully up TO the times.
ours. -. ...ma IATD.