The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-09-20
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How a Man of Much Experience Dis
 covered That a Newspaper Was Operated by . Ring.

Operated by . Ring.
 The man of threadbaIe theories is a bore. Among uncul,ivated people who gre charmed by the sound of a strange word, he poses as god of wisdom, but when he visits newspaper office, in which he finds much pleasure, he disar- ranges the work of an entire day. is strange that some men cannot take a hint. No man really intends to be bore, and why he should fail to see the disagreeable influence of his presence, is purrle to those who oaper with meta physics. Sometimes a very sensitive man, while imparting what he thinks is appreciated information, will stop and with an air of painful solicitude, say, Perhaps I am keeping you from work g''
 "Oh, no," replies the victim, who has become so nervous that his ink bottle is in danger of being upset. What else can he say. Ii would not be polite to say "oh, yes.' The sensitive bore is "good fellow" and, when one is not particularly employed, is a fair sort of companion, and it will not do to forever make of him an enemy "Oh, no, am not busy" with a sigh. "All right As was saying-.' He then proceeds to relate long, and, of course, uninterest- ing story.
 The other day Captain Mulock dropped in on the editor of the DaiIy .Swocp. He is one of your privileged characters of the editorial room. The little notices on the vail, luch as This is my busy day. or No loa6ng allowed here" arc not intended for him.
 "Why, Beckley, how are your" ad- dressing the editor.
 "So-so; have a seat" he replied, with a weary air.
 "Well, how's politics ?"
 Don't know, captain"
 What. l thought an editor knew everything
 Mir. Beckley had just been bored by a delegation from Fourche township, and an old fellow with pie-plant shaped like a human skull, with a nose like the prominent feature which grows on the face of the immortal Mir. Punch, had been in to see him and had Jeff him as a diabolical inheritance an irritated tenn per and hand which itched to jam itself between somebody's eyes.
 @Thought they mew everything" re- peAsed the visitor, after d long silence, dunng which the editor had clipped two articles from humorous paper and with out credit, had hung them on the hook.
 "They deat, you see," replied MT. Beckley.
 But some of them think they do, eh 2 he, he, he, ter ho, ho. By the cay, 1 suppose you look through your papers not that you would directly take an idea, bat that you would receive a suggestion, a mere hint, as it were. Nov, have done considerable writing for the press,n holding back his whiskess and spitting on the floor, " and is's strange how a man will sometimes receive hint" "Yes, and its devilish strange why some people can't take one" said the editor.
 That's fact" continued the visitor. |" There's Nat Foyne, for instance He and were once associated together. edited his paper once while he was away amending coavention and that's why undesstsnG the brsines % we'll. Naf's pretty good writer bat he can't take . hiat He might look through . dose. paPezs aad woald seveT see anything. Yoa have e1sea received ssgeestisns from vesy little things, haven't yos? Iknov | have Say, III heip yos ~Aes you are hard pusAsd. ! know what < is to bs hard uP iOr an idea"
 "I suppose ss," sspiisd tks editor, tearing she wrspper 6oo as excAasss Ike . Kentseiian shuckirg as ear of| com.
 ~Oh, yes, yos bet kaow vhst | ia. Sitfisg down and writing ss assicis Sos the public is not Ehs ssiens lessss. By he vay, csn ssve yoa suggessios nowI 1T you are in the hsnor to take if!s
 The edits5 Cs1;d resssain himseh ne| longer. "Ys, by all the ascisas g<ds, bod democratic asd republicaa '" he a. cisined, .sd css give yos . ssues-
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