The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-10-11
Just as All Editors Write.

a charming little story OF Inc way I'D
which Bjornstorne Bjornson, the great
Norwegian novelist. turns off his liter
ary work, is floating through the news
papers. This is the paragraphs: -.
''Bjornsterne Bjornson is an easy and
rapid but ltful writer. Sometimes his
pen will be seized by an inspiration and
reel off whole chapters in few hours.
The forenoon is his work time, and he
docs not care if his desk is surrounded
by visitors talking or by a dozen romp-
ing children at play. Nothing short of
an earthquake can disturb his flow OF
thought"
We've ALWAYS admired Mr.. Biornson
and. have passed many happy hours
reading his stories in the original; but
now our heart warns toward him with
warmth it never knew before, for we
discover that this great man and we
have tastes in common. which Is the lot
of few persons to share. Bjornsterne!
you're Just like us, my dear fellow!
We're Just like you only q little more
so. We, too, delight in being surround
ed by the laughing prattle of children
rs we toll. AS these desirable sur
roundings are not easily to be had in an
editorial sanctum. VIC usually write our
heavy articles in our lowly cottage, with
the little romping darlings on our knees,
in our arms, in the midst of our hair
and whiskers, and riding to Danbury
Cross on our in-step. If possible, we
send out for a few of the neighbors'
children, and as the racket grows mer-
rier and the little prattlers grow more
humorous the faster flies our pen and
the more irresistible becomes our logic.
Perhaps our readers have noticed that
some of our most brilliant articles have
appeared in the green apple season. In
the Jubilee of collie and StOmach-ache
we are inspired with our sublimest ideas
and write with a rapidity and vigor that
| drives all witnesses aghast.
Yes, we're happy to have score of
visitors talking and chattering around
our desk. as we write. They give Il
light and airy grace to our style, make
us crisp and epigrammatic. and our
work seems but a pastime. But writ
er for provincial newspaper can't af-
ford to hire twenty TO forty people to
talk to him every day of the week, and
that's why the public don't get more of
| that class of work from us. When we
get hard pushed for stimulus of this
SOELt We OIQCI Ill luC 1OLSlAtlA VI eAIC
composing room, the office boy and the
pressman. whom we have trained to re-
peat one of Joseph Cooks lectures back
ward, in three different languages, at
the rate of seventy-tive words per min-
ute together and at the same time. We
have found this expedient exceedingly
useful and economical, as a last resort,
Brother Bjornson. No, not even an
earthquake can disturb the flow of our
thought On the contrary, the flow OF
our thought has often disturbed earth
quakes. The flow of our thought reach.
es its food in the midst of earthquakes.
volcanic eruptions. tornadoes, thunder
storms, watcrspouts. boiler explosions,
Fourth OF July celebrations, upheaving
foundations and tottering walls. The
earth may yawn but the torrent of oul
thought rolls on in all its dignity and
| grandeur. The flow of our thought was
never disturbed but once; and that was
when the tidings reached us, at the
minute of going to press, on the day af
ter election, that the elevator had
busted and two forms pied" Have you
ever been there, Bjornson?--LeWiston
(Me. Journal.