The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1879-08-28

BROOKLYN, n. Y, August 5, 1879.
Last December, fellow with long hair, and hun
cry look upon his countenance, walked into q Ger
tain printing Office in this city and inquired abOu
the condition of the newspaper business, and wa,
be hs 1ns
situation, should he desire.
The fellow with long hair and hungry look wa
pleased with such an unexpected answer. He loafet
around and worked whenever there wss an oppor
tunity, and when there work 10 do, he would
sit ON a stool and listen to the singing of the lady
next days labor. Sometimes the men wsaId join in
when the ladies were disposed to give seeoons from
| the popular medodies. And the newcomer listened
good thing to be printer, even though ignorant
people had poor opinion of any connected with
ewspapers-printers in particular. Ono day, .
Brooklyn pretty well. Have you lived here very
lonsr Yes, 1t is very beautiful city. have not
been here great length Of time; Kansas has been
Then you have seen Indians and buffalo, and grizzly
bears, and wild-catsr o, yes. They are as com
mon there as beggars are in New York city, By
divdual with long hair, and the ladies' becoming Gu
rious as to what was going on camc up, and kept
unusually quiet. "fes,' continued the Kansan,
about killing grizzly before breakfast" The ladies
screamed, and the looked at each other in blank
aniazement, unable to give utterance to mon
During the winter, the Kansan enjoyed himself to
the best Of his ability and means, answering nnu-
merable interrogatives in regard to the climate
ever any one would try to tell him about the East
he would stop them at once by saying: II under
stand but have read all about it in the newspa-
pers." Upon another occasion, the Kansan asked
one of the lady compositors whether she had ever
been out West 80, yes. but only once" .IIow far,
If may be permitted to ask r.. She seemed to ne,
part Of New Jersey, SIR The man felt like laugh
ing, but only smiled bit of sile and resiiin.
ed his distributing.
cry look bad become thoroughly acquainted with
the pecularities Of the Office, made himself at home
and knew the compositors from the reporters. His
his long hair had .gone but not forgotten" as Geo
Washington Chi!ds A. NJ, of Philadelphia, would
POLITICALLY remark.
printer from Kansas now works The day was very
warm. and by the time arrived at the top step,
our breath came in gasps and the perspiratiOn play
ed about our forehead i'm O manner that made MS
nervous. The foreman cutting up COPY and SO
much fluid dropped from his chin, that the mucilage
bottle was overrun and its contents irrevocably
time to wipe of his chin. The assistant foreman a
tall, beardless youth, with fascinating figure lean.
ed over the imposing stone, and endeavored to
change the date Of the paper but the gasses his
nose, which he wears as an ornament dropped of,
causing him to mutter something rhyming with
lamb. OF all the compositors, We noticed only two
who were ont of copy, both of whom seemed to be
enjoying an entertainment all to themselves One
wore spectacles, and his whiskers were cut Ia Eng
lsh and the Other had full board and open cous-
tenanee. The first was evidentIy teaching the sec
ond how 70 dance, for he kept his right hand the
others wrist, and said: "Now, 60 in" The full
bearded man obeyed, and gave q good jig. Then the
spectacle! lnap blew down the fnllbearded mans
back, and requested him to 20 to his case which he
did, saying, as he walked along: "CAo'e-oor 1t
was probably . new Americanism for ;'.Its hot
In q little Khile being issued ffom the editorial
sanctum- whom We supposed to be . Turk, but who
was in reality the managing editor. He was very
tall and graceful, with gait like Apollo, and move
ments similar to waving cornstalk. in summer.
His broad, Byronie brow went back and met we'll
shaped Uranium, from which all the hair was clip
ped closely. But he wore the apex of his head an
immaculate handkerchief, with cunning knots at
each Of the four He was restlass careless
cuiiess; he did not even have suspe attached
to his psatslOons, and there q Wild look about
his eyes that seemed to warn auybody ffoa sxpress-
ing opinion about the thermoiaetef. An Of q sud-
den he pat his hand to his head, end said in stem
torian, deep voice, "Please to hurry up with the
galleys."
Afisr watching the strange proceedings fbr few
minutes longer, We bade our Kansas typo goodbye.
cautionng him not 70 impose too much upon his in
nocent co-workers with his stories
CARLOS NOGGS.