The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-04-16
ABOVT wELE-KNOMN MEN AND
WOMEN.



So many women are now engaged in
journalism in this country, particularly in
the leading cities. that it may be interest
to them to know that the first daily news
paper printed in English had for publisher
a woman. Elisabeth Mallet. Its name
was the Courant the place, London; the
year, 1902 1t was not, as may be sup
posed, an advocate of the rights or priv
ileges of the sex, or of anything feminine.
It's purpose was to be an improvement on
the weekies of the Time which were par
tieularly addicted to gossip, trivialities
and impertinenccs of every kind The
tradition is that she wrought decided re
form, and that her little sheet was full of
the vigor and direetness commonly asso-
ciated with the masculine mind.
Two masters of newspaper work were
n. p. Willis and Leigh Hunt. Poets,
essayists, men of the world and Of genius,
they took up the drudgcry OF a newspaper
with such tact that their lightest para
graph has turn the world will read with
interest Willis could write puff of a
fashionable halter worth reading for its
literary merit Let Leigh Hunt go to the
theatre after long absence and how charm
ingly he writes of ladies bonmetS, of the
good company present, and raves of Pasta 5
singing and acting Ii is the regret of the
stage artists that they can only live in
tradition after death, having no actual
works like books, pictures or statues for
the public to know them by. But in Il e
hearty admiration of a critic like Hunt,
Pasta lives. and smiles and charms. and
ones heart beats for her, almost as those
of her London audience did more than 4
generation ago. Aud such writing lives,
too 1t is the fashion to call newspaper
work cphemcral Il is, ifsliltly and care
lcSsly done.
John Taylor, according to a private let
ter written from Salt Lake, is one of the
shrewdcst and most plausible Mormons
that have ever had any position or author
ity in the church. He is pronounced much
superior to Brigham Young in tact, in
sight and power of management, and TO
have all his energy and strength. 20 hear
Taylor talk you would believe the Latter
Day saints the most conscientious and best
abused people in the world And yet, if
you know the Mormon leader, you Will
know that he is deliberately and purposely
lying for what he conceivcs to be the good
of the cause. lie does not believe that
faith should be kept with the Gentiles or
that they have any right to claim from the
prosecuted sect any other treatment than
that accorded to prosecuting and rcmorse-
less foes. The hatred that Taylor bears to
all enemies Of his church is incessant and
relentless; and yet he has an amiable and
saayc manner in their presence that would
deceive the greatest skcptic or the closest
student of human nature The cores
pondcnt considers him the most subtle and
gifted hypocritc he has ever met, and
thinks he would beat the cunningest
Jesuits that history OF fiction has de-
scribcd
Bret Hane, who was relieved some
months ago Of lis Glasgow consalship.
seems in no haste to return home. Some
of his friends over there think that, as he
was hardly ever at his post, he has not
probably discovered that his successor has
been appointed. lIarte is said to have
been bitterly disappointed. and sorely
troubled at his removal, because he fully
believed that he would still be kept in
office, having been led to think So 10y Ger
tain officers in Washington One Of these
says that Iarte has no cause for complaint,
because he eflectuall} removed himself
from Glasgow within a few weeks after
going there in Il consular capacity. 1t is
not unlikely that he might have retained
his place had he not so persistcntly and
uniformly stayed away from it. Having
IN assistant, a native Scotchman, who had
had long experience and who discharged
the duties of the position far better than he
would himself have done, he probably re-
garded his presence there as supertluous,
and spent most of his time very agreeably
in London. The ex-consul it is rumored,
contemplates remaining in London, wterC
he is Il great flvorte socially.