The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-07-14
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showing How Great Heads Aee Turned
By TrlflinE CAUSES.
BuriiagiOH HaEtrtt
"Are editors as supentitlons d thettre
acton, and sailots, and railroad men9'
asked the old subscriber, sitting down in a
Queen Apule char and putuHg his fee,
limidly under a centre table inlaid with
Mexican onyx.
ayes, "uaId the solemn editor, ''they are
Ever since newspapers were invented by
Cadmus, Journalists in every department
have had tuperstiiiouS beliefs and ideas
peculiar to their profession. Now, there's
The managing editor. 1.-THE 1rst man who
comes Into the private office Mon
day uiorning Ia n man who wants TO g
10 Congress and has an editorial
article three columns long, written
by himself, showing how the country is
lost unless he Is nominated 10 minute, the
manager Is gloomy all day, because he
DOESN'T believe that article is going In the
paper, Eoireason for Il, you know, only he
10 iuht superstitious enoughfo believe that
the manuscript will BIO lost In the waste
basket ten feet deep before the author Is
half way down stairs. Then, there Is the
leader writer, too. II he found his pen
sticking In tho paste, he'd suspect Dan,
down 10 the ollice, 10 minute. When he
flnds his desk opened and all his pencils
gone, hesuspects the proof reader, and when
me paper comes out dated February %, he
suspects the'make.up.' And,another thing:
Il be picks up pom by the wrong
end, he will Turn II around and say
something before he will write with It. I've
talked with him about II but he won't give
any reason for Il. As Tor the news editor,
do Won see that mountain OF exchanges on
his tablet Well, before you get down
stairs that young nan will lean out Of the
window 10 watch your appearance at the
counting room door, and be will say: I'll
bet a dollar that old cuss stole the Denver
Tribune and the Boston Transcript. He 10
supeIsiitious about everything that hap
pens and about every man that comes In,
lie believes It bad luck TO drop the
scissors down the elevator well.
Did It once, and they straddled
right into both eyes Of regular advance
paying subscriber, who was looking up TO
sse the elevator come down. He believes
In Maseottes. Gets Eve letters week
from somebody, and the boys believe he
has one. He won't work on Sundays OF
| the Fourth Of July. Says when man
works on Sunday 1t Ia o sign he's lonesome,
| ii BIO wants to get anything out Of the
library when he ls sitting al bis deok, be
crosses tho room beiSre he takes down the
book. Crosses 1t again before he sits down
II we run out Of paper, the rressman be
lieyes It Is a Bigu that the paper won't be
out, II printer asks Tor money before
pay day, Il 10 q sign he hasn't bcel
on the paper quite one week. i
Is also a sign that he'll nRyer do Il
again. II the pressman askSa printer for
dollar, II Is a sure align that the printer
hasn't cent When the foreman finds q
handful Of pie in with his quoinS, and
picks up sidtstick and starts down the
room, making loud remarks, It 10 sigu
he Is going to land lOr) the devil. oh, q
newspaper office is the Most superstitioui
place you can come TO-"
sand YOURSELF" said Old Subscriber
"Now, do you believe in any OF thest
things ?"
az" said the Solemn Elitor. lob,
believe it's about time -?22'
The Old Subscriber nodded thrice, puy
on his hat, rose 10 his feet, and the Ok
One and the Solemn One passed slowly
but not too slowly, down the winding stairs