The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-04-14
THE EDIroRIAL WEI

ample, here Is a correspondent who
makes the startling reselation that he Is
a constant reader of orr valuable and
influential paper, and would like to be
informed why it is an editor or news
paper writer, when speaking of himself
IN his writings, Invariably uses the
plural pronoun eve" instead of the
singular 81"
There are several reasons. Self-pres-
ervation is the first law of nature. 1t
begins at home, like old Mother Charity
There Is some human nature about an
editor, public opinion TO the contrary
Notwithstanding. An e,%or thinks too
much of his "Ps" to lear them in
mourning, and therefore, ehen speaking
of some slab sided six-fod b. as a miser-
able red-nosed, pusillaAmosls, wife
beating snoozer, he oEders it the
better part OF valor to drd in an occas-
ional 1--WE. This createk the mind
of the six-footer the impreE bon that the
editorial force consists OF standing
army, armed with deadly e"-apons.
Furthermore, in cases We the VIC
tim comes around to th8sohlce to kill
the writer of any particular item, it is
so pleasant to have the guilty mans
identity buried in the obscurity of the
plural "we." The editor-in- chief, the
commercial editor, the city editor, the
local editor, the reporters, the book
keepers, compositors, binders, job
bers, 'pressmen, devil and all the de-
livery boys are thus placed on COM
mon footing by the little pronoun "we,"
and when the enraged person looks
about him and finds how many homes
he would make desolate, how many
wives he would make widows and how
many children orphans, by killing off
all included III the little "we" at one
fell swoop, he sicllens of the sanguinary
undertaking, turns sadly away, goes to
some bar-room, takes a drink, condemns
the paper, prophesies that it is being
run into the ground, and declares that
he will henceforth use his political influ-
ence to squelch the sheet.
There are other reasons. When no.
ticing marriage or birth "we" implies
that at least box of cigars will be re-
CURED to go around.
An editor says ''we" when advising
the President how to conduct his admin
istration, because the President might
not act on his suggestion if it was writ
ten plain 81.
When telling the minister how to
preach the editor uses we" to induce
the belief that he has just had confer
ence with all the administers about the
establishment.
The editor who tells the teacher how
tn teach says "we, because no has con-
suited with his wife about the matter.
and she, having been teacher "A dew
years before, OF course knows all about it.
eve" Is sometimes used because of
the writer's modesty. Most writer's are
troubled in this respect
In short, we use ''we" because no one
man could survive the trials, tribulations
and taffy found about a print shop.
MANUFACTURE OF WOODEN SHOES
The London Globe says that tho
wooden shoe is quite a national institu-
ton in France, and in Brittany, more
than in any other part of the country,
its clank il heard everywhere. People
wear it almost habitually there who
would fight shy of it elsewhere, save on
high days, holidays ana en- 9rande te'lue
when "there is nothing like leather"
Hence follows the necessity for a sufi
GENTLY large brotherhood of sabotiers,
who, as they could not possibly live in
towns or large villages by reason of the
cost of transport of the rough material
exceeding the price of the manufactured
goods-Mam'sel Marie's well-made
shoon aforesaid may be bought for a
mere trihe-are forced to reside In the
woods and forests, or other places where
suitable timber may be available. He
is regular Bedouin, this sabotier, and,
like that nomad, can say "The rope
which holds my tent has seen all cities
perish" The never-altering end and
aim of Breton wooden shoemaker is to
fabricate sabots, and out of this groove
he and his never run. Such as the
father is, such is the son, and, for the
matter of that, his daughter also. Chill
dren, SO to speak. are to the manner
born of making sabots. and at so tender
an age as or 6 years they may be seen
smoothing, blackening, vanishing and
stringing together in lots the coverings
which their parents and other relatives
have cut, shaped and followed out into
chausures for the human foot. When
sufficient load of sabots has been COM
pleted at a certain fixing, the sabotier
goes with it to the nearest village or
town where his Wholesale dealer resides,
to whom he disposes of the lot. With