The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-07-08
A CHICAGO LAKESIDE
MUSING.
"Gan | come INF"

'fGsn / come INF"
A young man Whose clothes wert
suspiciously new, and upon Whose
face there wss a complacent, self
satisfied expression, stood in the door
way OF the editorial rooms and pro
pounded The above interrogstory in g
very loud and declamstory tone o
voice.
81 suppose you can," said the
horse reporter, ''unlass you are af.
hicted with some constitutional
malady which prevents you from put
ting one foot in front OF the other, OF
have got a pair of hobbies on. There
have been some daisy fellows come
up here lately, but you are the fret
onethat wanted to know whether
be could go through an open door,"
II didn't exactly mean that"
continued the young man. "What
| wanted to know was if I could
come info,the room for q few min
utes."
Certainly you Gao; only don't say
anything to the effect that we ought
to have a pleasant summer after
such rainy spring, or you may
find yourself q pallid corpse in the
6oDjon beneath the turrets of the
castle. II you are looking for tbs
HQloksr,lLe Clarion, or the GrGndy
COuntg Palladium, you will find them
in that pile of papers over in the
corner. II you are aWeary and would
fain WOO the drowsy god, ask the
man 10 the next room for the Boston
Advertiser. 4 Boston paper will
make insomnia fee away as the
black wrath Of despair and DISSOLUTION
vanish before the golden rays of hope.
Don't mistake yon haggard PASTE
pot for cup-custard, because in its
contents there is generous mixture
OF deceased cockrosohes that but a
few short days ago we're members OF
happy family oircles-now, alas,
sundered by the cruel hand OF a
darksome and unrelantiug iate. "
II didn't va to read any ex-
changes, said he young man. The
object OF my visit was to see the
principal editor-the one who me- kes
engagements with journalists"
''The what?"
1.-THE editor who makes engage
ments With journalists"
"Oh, you mean the man who hires
the hands. He's in the other roona.
Do you want a job?"
"Well," said the young man in q
rather naughty manner, II have
some thoughts of entering the journ'
alistic profession.
'You mean that you want 10 hire
out as deck hand On newspaper
dent you?'
perhaps that ia your way Of ex-
pressing it, cir" said the young
man, "but our professor OF rhetoric
told US that"
"Oh, you're q collegiate graduate
are you2" said the horse reporter.
thought you had a kind of I-shall
now go-forth-sndstake-charge" of al
fairs air about you. I suppose yor
gradust7d last week."
Eyes sir" was the reply. and
may say that my oratiou-"
II know all about it," interrupted
the horse reporter. "You spoke {
piece about 'Lifs's Mission or 'Oul
Oountry's Future or something
like that, and when you had finished
it the young lady in the percale dress
whom you have been taking TO tht
weekly meetings pr the Platoniar
Literary Society for the last twt
years sent q pig boquet up to th'
platform for you, with q little piece
Of rose tinted note paper in thu
centre oil it, with from one who ad
mires genius written on it. AnC
then . lot OF Teutonio musician
blew themselves black in ths fact
playing the Star Spangled Banner.
And in the evening you went to tht
presidents reception with the female
admirer OF genius, and on the WAY
homo you told her that now you wert
about to enter upon q new sphere o
action, to go forth and do battle viii
the world, and carve for yourself {
niche high in the temple OF fame, yor
felt that you must tell her how you
whole existence was wrapped up in 6
pure, holy love for her-a love tina
would never iAlteE or fade As long a
life remained. An9 then che lAiC
her head tgustiully on your manly
breast, and said that she would no
try to conceal from you the fact, eve
present in her heart, that you wert
the one msn in the wide, wide worlC
upon whom she could bestoW tina
moet precious of all gifts-the tender
true and all-absorbing love Of . pur,
woman. But in about five year
things will look different. There ar,
nov more young men that starteC
out 10 cave q niche high in To-
temple of fame chasing large rel
steers over the arid plains OF Texas
or delivering msCkerel to the frs
families than you can shake a sticI
at" a
''Bus surely, sir. you do not NEAR
to insinuate that college education