The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-03-24
EDITORIAL ROOMS.
A Description of the SAnetums of Some
 of New Works Newspapers.
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 editorial rooms. A few arc equipped and embeihshed arsisieally. most of them are commonplace, some oi them arc quite dreary. Perhaps the very wors, arc those occupied by the Cs~~s,sta! and the 44sevfsaH 1s<es. Thcse are places where mlce bu,ld nests in the edi- tors pockets. and rats as big as ppodles walk out and sit up on the paste DO, and look the custodian of Il dehantly in the eye Bu; of the former office one thing can be said: Hugh Hastings, after al most hali century of hard work. is al ways on deck. prepared to deliver pom, blank yes or no. and he has no Ger betus on guard ., the door between him. self and the public.
 The E7'<utns Post editorial rooms are near the taa4of nine stories, up which you are whisked by lightning elevator that makes the distance in a minute. You enter door and ind yourself in . small enclosure railed ofi within. ln- qaInng for General Carl Schutx. the ed HOT. a ooy shoees bli ot paper and pen eil 10 yea. and sa.s. "N ame and buslncss, please" You write the essentials there, ot on your card. and the boy carries |, within If your business IS legitimate, the editor will see you, but you will do well io call after one o'clock In the sec ond ot the two inner rooms General Sehuts sits al flat table surrounded with books, engulphed m papers. writing indusu.oGsiy and finishing the sentence before he looks up 10 g,ect. A, his left ..e .aasss through q ia:;; ;assc. :a.. commands the sweep of the whole bay. anu the afternoon sun Is tempered by a soft Cgf,aiu
 The t'i iaAIFs chief editorial room is en the ars; floor. back of the counting toon. where Mt. Goodsells desk IS (if where MaSGteSot st,> is the head oi the table. though good deal oi the work K done upstaifS ln great room which ls occupied by h,s saoordinates Tn com mon,
 The SuH editoual rooms arc on the ;hird floor of | huilding that has seen better days. though perhaps l,s better days in hlsh moral sense were no, those days when : was 0eeupca ,s l amman, headquarters and lsti.h kyn,lcrs was a power The door tfs, opens into a small tenced-ofI enclosure. where the visitor ,n-
 
 moned This lnclosufe IS m a great room, forty feet square. where the city editor and thirty reporters have then desks. \ door opens through into iohB Swnton's room, and from lhis another door opens to the square table where Mi Dana s.,. and plans. selects. eouee,s and rejects. think MT. Dana IS growing a little mellow with years retaining hls eN- ecutive and creative power while getting rid of some of hls eIotehe,s and eccen- itiiies,
 The HsraH editorial rooms are not attractive. Though in a great marble building, they are mostly shu, away from the sun and light, and arc srnall and the reverse of beautiful. Fortunately, the visitor seldom secs them. He l. shut into an outer room, and the member oi the staff of whom he IS the guest waits upon him there. This room IS approached up stairway, and the Ifiqs,d0s IS two stories higher, the grca, Uetaid building no, ye, being able to afford an elevator. IL ms l, would be hls last
 In one If the Countess Gun cioiss ab- seuCe, from home. he was fond of st,- ting in her gafden and. finding ,here one day copy of "Cotianc which she had been feadlng. he wrote. III Englsh. thu letter on one ot the il -leat cs ofthc book
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 "AiA DTARf T TEREsA: l have lead ,h,s boosI in yoar garden. My love. you were absent. or : could no. have read l., IL IS iavorite book of yours, and the writer was friend ofnine. You will no, understand these English words, and others will no, understand them, which IS the reason have not scrawled them in Italian but you will recognize the handwriting of him who passionafely loved yoo, and you will divine that over book which was yours he could only think of love. In that word. beautiful in all languages. but most so m yours Amor mio, is comprised my existene e,here and hereafter. feel exist here. and fear that shall cxis, hereafier--to what pur- pose you will decide my destiny rests with you. and you are woman. i8 years of age and. too, out of convent. wish that you had staid there. with ali my heart, or, at least. that had never met you in yonr married state
 .Bus all this IS too late. love you and you love me-at least you say SO and act as if you did so, which last is great consolation. m all events. But more than love you and cannot cease to love you.
 Think of me sometimes when the Alps and the ocean divide us but they never will. unless you wish il. BYRON.
 The love of Lord Nelson for Lady Hamilton IS so inseparable part Of his history that it has become an episode in English history as we'll. There are few characters in the naval annals of England tha, excite such personal sympathy and interest as Lord Nelson. The enihusi- asm which was felt for him by every sail or under his command communicated it. self to all who read his life. He was a man perfectly brave, yet tender to excess; his men said ofhim that "hewas as brave as lion yet as gentle as \ lamb" His feelings were so acute that when any harsh discipline was enforced on board his ship he suffered from II as mueh IS fl he had been woman. Such a nature as this was likely to be strongly swayed by the passion which seixed him in the prime