The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-02-17
EMMEr LOGAN.


 The fcllo~ing biographical skesch ol Emmes c. Logan. formerly of the ccsy- asr ia&vsai but no~ managing editor of she Cine,anati Assps, w&ss wsissea by rhos. Grassy, schcol-iellow of Logan. The sketch. re believe. was frxs published in the nAasys A.xs. oi which journal G1asiy ~as editor
 The career at ih,s model yonng ,oar- aaiiss commenced some ten years agu. when he started. A the hstle town oi shelhysiiie. Ky, the Csssass a local and literary weekly cf very h.gh order. ttc had then yusi come out ci Washing. ton and Lee University. Va. where he stood tatfty both as classical and htesa. y scholaE Hut his chiet dssuncsion there was won by has ~ondcstul tluency as speaker. A, the middle of his srst se&s,on he was chosen as one ei the ss- ciety orators, and electrified hts arrv and critical audience by an osaticn on Lord Byron. From sha, time onward Logan was famous. lie was the prlde of the kcntucklans. ot whom there were grca, many at the University. the idol of the ladies. and perhaps the mos, popular student oi the four hundred who ~cre there trom all over the south. With hss striking taec and distinguished kgu,e- he stands sis feet. two. s.sas shoes added by . mAnaer peculiar and fascinating, these things were not to be wondered al. The strong minded, but rather eynscsi. eidcss daughtes ot the late General K. F.. Lee. was his most enthusiastic admifef, and immediately after the great l" lsyron Speech" elaimed hun s= hes n..sege- and he IS sso doubt indebted ,o the ,nfia- cnce ot the highly cultured social eotefse ot which he thus became the eentsal stat . for much of that genuine refinement oi mind and teellng that has ever marked the man and journalist.
 Ills venture in weekly journalism was ,ntr.nsscaliy highly successful; but pe,sy local uvalries galied h,s high sprit and desrasted m great meas ure from the hnanc,ai returns oi tho Cossass. So that In the course oi year or two he abandoned the en,et- prisc and became an Atiaehe oi the Ces,- ify- fas, saL
 Hts ftrs, work was as eollAies of the southern and Kentucky news columns. which he soon made the most attractive and eagerly read features ot that paper Afterward cx.lieuscnant t.ovefnor In. dctwood began the publi,at atinn of the I,t- " ss&Ly fstsiIse sssft al Howhng Queen, and employed A it's editors l.. G. Logan and F.. Folk Johnson the latter one oi the most felcitou wtiters in ken lucky, and a man largely endowed with haf nj fs~ isaA fss.a
 su, the Courier fs.tsai soon found that without Logan ,hese vas an nnpor. tant og-sheei ,n ns machinery gone 10 he vas offered the highest position ,n ns gitt as An lnducenent to return. ut eouTso Mr. NAsserson. A editor and part owner. is presumably more important iunetionaD than the desyf<,- /es, aai ! managing editor. but on account oi the formers frequent and prolonged ab. scnees lu the cast. the entire management, of the paper IS no~ tn Logan's hands. ln fad MT. Natirrson gets great deal of ered,, for spicy and original things that he never saw antli in print.
 Logan's force as a writer IS shown sn those tcrsc. pointed editorial paragraphs on current events inspired by tate tele- graphic news that have appeared every day for the past two years in that journal. and sshieh have contributed quite As much to its remarkable recent successes as the ordinary bnght, graocfni and uniquely elegant articles, % the oeo ss,on- aisy Jerky and whimsical vagaIies. oi Henry Wattesson. Indeed there are fe~ fl any, news-paragfsphers. who can equal him in ,his line oi work there afc aone that can surpass him, mt even Cot kefiii of the Pcsf- DsIpaEeh. One of the pe,u- liaSit.cs of the man is has never fading freshness. Homer sometimes mods" = Logan never And ycs lew managing editors are harder worked than he. There are never any occasions for apologies, seldom any corrections, never any acai- dental variations from the policy of the paper, never any unrevssed correspond cnee, never any bad breaks" ot any kind under h,s management
 Though soreiy tired ln nerves by the cons,an, and cruel stfain, yet x ,s seldom ,ha; his temper becomes ruffied, shiie al hls official desk. Ills manners are uni, formly arb.ne, aye gentle, to every one of his seore CT utoFe of subordnz,ts There are no whimsical dismlssals oi groundless complaints. lie h, neverthe. iess, more completely master of the siiu a,ion than perhaps any other managing editor of metropolitan journal
 lie n,, only has nose for news. but 4 nose for brains these never fail oi ap pre- iz,ion, and, when accompanied D, industry, of reward al his handa and no man ever enjoyed more fully than ife the coatdence of his fello~-laborcra
 Enmet Logan IS the real life and soul ot the Courier Journal Mf. Water son \ star stlil shines e the outslde world bu, sonse one has sad that though Si rus should be put out, we teffes,rali would be none the wiser for yeafs. itl light would last longer than itself sso ! too, were A nrS star to come into tbs Armament, i,s light nigh, not reach u ! fof ages. II IS sosnewhaf thus in journal ism the individual light of the real flu. minator of a paper is slow In rear hing ,hs eyes of the masses of men.
 l; may be some years yet, bat fl hs live the day will dawn when Emmes Lo gan will be known to ali the world as | A~ rxss fss s<.t tN ~x L.y