The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-05-25


suade to put an lad" in our columns.
If the hotels and restaurants and
boarding houses didn't appreciate the
bene fits of heralding to the world
their virtues as hostelries | didn't eat,
or fell back upon that ''dernied re-
sort" of the editor, the free lunch
route. Now | might have Jared sump-
tuosly and have worn fine linen every
day instead of seersucker coat it it
hadn't been for our composition bills,
which run from $50 to $3.50 a week,
according to the amount of plate mat
ter used. | am pot exactly sore at
printers, but l have got sort of
sneaking idea that they stood between
me and my Greeley career. and | am
glad of chance to talk to them and
in that way OF sort Of
evening up old scores,
1t is time honored joke and time
honored custom for the editor to ex
culpate himself for all typographical
errors by charging it to the Intelligent
compositor. The compositor on a
Philadelphia paper, so the editor ex-
planned, by displacement of a space,
Informed the masses Of that city that
Mr.. Jones would address them asses at
National hall, 1t is matter Of his
tory that one of the earlier Bibles was
called the adultery Bible" because
the word mot" was dropped from the
Seventh Commandment, making it
read, "Thou Shalt Commit Adultery"
| had an experience of this kind while
on the tripods. In pdSSdnt l may
state | have Lever seen a tripod, al
though so many editors claim to mount
them. There may have meen a three
legged stool in the temple Of Apollo
and an oracle may have occupiei it,
but there are none such
in newspaper offices. wrote
what considered a very able article,
though [ can't honestly say heard
anybody else express similar opin-
ion, on the Texas Veterans associa.
ton which held one of its annual SEES
sions here in Waco. l several times
introduced the expressions, which
thought we're effective, ''battle scared
veterans" and my chsgrin and dis.
may be well imagined
when [ saw in cold type that l had
called those old patriots "bsttle
scared veterans" 1t is not often |
l give myself up to retrospection, but
loCkinU hook ayap 1r;tb tbosa yaxo
lions, and the constant recurrence of
pay day, there are no days of mine
that time has in his grasp that | can
think of half so tenderly and smile at
half SO much Then began some of
the warmest and most lasting friendli-
ness of my life, and frlendliness, | am
proud to say, not based upon
the conventional estimate of
men. Friendliness not formed
sordid motives, and which clings only
to those who may advantage US. 1t
is my observation that much of the
old order of things among printers is
passing away. Peter Bartlett Lee,
whom | we'll knew aud most of you no
doubt, famous as the type of the
"tramp printer" is dead, and he has no
successor. say he is dead because |
have read seven or eight obituaries on
his death at different times 1t was
said of Lee that he could name every
county seat in the United States and
the papers published therein. 1t is
probable he had worked in every state
in the union, but during the latter
years of his life he was not popular
with his craft; his sort of printers had
gone out Of fashion, and
came to be more and more
unpopular The printers now give
their "subbing' TO more industrious
men. The modern printer had an
above being a tramp, and
while there are yet some "vsgrom
men" among them; as class no de-
partment of human activity will pre-.
sent a more intelligent, liberal and
charitable body of workers. OF ne.
cessity they acquire vast fund of in.
as articles on every con-
topic pass through their
hands. They are all good gramma
rians and rhetoricians and orthogra.
pliers, and many a contribution that it
was thought was free from such errors
has been "editei' by the printer and
its author an Jed from ridioula nd Din