The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-10-14
THE EDITORS.


l suppose it was a rather unusual sort
| of office if office If couId he called IT
,,,o. ori,ri,,.,l,, ,.o,+ed H.. Rob Allison nc -
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slto c"nF''SeS. DiFO cheap He SAM
'ana plenty Oh accommodation. lie Ger
! tainly wanted the latter, as the number
| of manglcd canvascs grow almost daily
l think it was TAYLOR who first suggest
| ed that The Orpan sbould SEQ tbo light of
fo,,,o md ,,o,uIori+,, IN ROWS ,++ic our
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orgah-"e"ere 50 pro"'' Vi inc .'iS!iilc'lNe
tltle' SO lull OF the responsibilities us pro-
duction entailed, SO very conscious of the
debt the public would owe us, that we
! were slightly incohcront, fear, in our
explanations, for many went away think
ing we referred to a mclodeon, a concer-
tina or some other vile invention.
When we talked of The Organ striking
the note of freedom, and ''pealing forth
the glorious symphony of the peoples
cause, " it was surely obvious We could
only have meant q newspaper Bob said
The Hurdy Gurdv would be better under
stood Inv the masses, and offered a man
gled canvas of "A rapacious looking Italian
with two white mice as u frontispioce.
But as The Organ it was started and
| Tho Organ il remained Dick Taylor WIS
the editor. by reason of his lodging at a
csmpositor's, the said compositor having
undertaken to give us any hints we might
REQUIRE.
Bob didn't behave so badly as might
have been cxpected. His uncle had lust
died and left him GOO. and after much
argument he agreed to devote ESQ to
voicing the walls of the afflicted. l fancy
he was thinking moro of the side he put
ON us PROPRIETOR of The Organ than of the
afflicted"
We held q full council of war shortly
after Bobs accession to wealth. The conf
positor-a pale, thin looking man-dis-
. coursed ponderously of some weird sort Of
machine called press, of reels and Of
reams, etc, till was quite daZed. lay
lor took it all calmly, however, and spoke
lcarnedly of pressing a ream" as II he u
been i'll the trade all his life.
Percy RaSSles-Rags, as we called MN
was created musical critic OF The Or
gan. His and indeed all the stall APP
pointments were made with beautiful
sense OF the illness OF things hags sister
used TO be a tonic SOFIA teacher III poaru
school, and, aS DICK SAID, II Rags uldn
know what music was he ought to. Tay-
lor said nj present he could only offer tho
! rest of us positions as outside contribu-
tors. confess it hurt mo a little-Bob's
landing was SO very drafTy-buG as tho
} compositor explained that mostly OUTSIDE
contributors sat inside the Office and took
up the EDITORS time it was agreed that for
the present we might sit ut the editor S Ia
bic.
The room was swept and garnlshed and
somewhat lavishly decorated with bills
Huge yellow posters, with ilsming red let
! tiers, hung from the walls and from the
ceiling, while inkpots and pastebrushes
gave an air of midnight oil TO tho
apartment. 4 lounge also, Taylor assured
u.s. was ii necessity; otherwise he could not
. think. 1t seemed bit odd that a lounge
should make one think; but, then, of
course All editor is necessarily different
from an outside contributor.
Before L became connected with The
Organ l had Il vague notion that papers,
generally speaking, came out ut fixed
time. That, Taylor assured me, was an
amateur idea. What was wanted he said,
was originality. Take the public by sur
prise, SO to speak. Keep them on the tip
toe Of expectancy" So each week the pa
per was issued to thirsting public Oh
different day. 1t is strange how preju-
diced tho public is. The few shops that
had taken up The Organ wrote complain
ingIy of its uncertainty and threatened to
drop it in consequence; but, then, as Dick
| said, who cared for them?
The articles in Our paper were marked
by degree of originality and fearlessncss
such rs l have never met with III any 9th
err periodical Thrones must have trembled
and tyrants tottered when they read Tho
Organ.
Its all very well for you chaps, said
TAYLOR, "but the tremendous responsible
ity is wearing mo to q thread. You don't
seem to understand how much Tho Organ
will cost tho opprcssors of the poor"
"One hundred and fifty pounds" NUT
tered Bob, gazing glOOmily at u pile Of re-
turns. Zone hundred and fifty pounds,
and not a penny to show for it,
Going to press was tho most exciting
time of tho week. Dicks landlord had
been amounted master printer and he
comnosed tho paDer in his spare time and
,yot IL stitched and pound in some nysteri-
ous manner. Dick said we must sit up
all night when the paper went to press.
1--WE must remember tho public" he said,
land not mind ourselves" So we used to
MAY nan. smoke cigarettes and chaff Bob
and feel very important whom the advance
comics were brought by the printers devil
One morning, after an all night sitting,
Dick looked very glum. II think L shall
have to throw it up" he said. Il can't
stand tho brain fag Mono of you chaps
have dome ANYTHING for the papcr except
co1ar il with scorn Look mt Rarsr' Poor
Rs bnd baen sent to Oucen's Hall to re-
nort n concert and had incidentally men
tioned in his .sconv" that "Cruft's dog
sbory,i 1yos vcrv fine II feel " said tho
,,ai+or .stbot owe nair of shoulders cannot
ol,,N,,a,.. mi, 1nnd j. Aud bo nullcd ont of
L;i f"ooI-ot hiTs for D,nrr nrintinp. etc.
+t +ho a,l,onnt of CLIO Bnb's face was IA
til, ..ae ,ya1l nc my c15Oy' he raspcd.
1T ,,.isb Won, and vonr afflicted were at
1aricbo hcfore IA thrown away NV
sweeney u
Rnt what WAS the uso of losing his tenn
,,.r t,ougb tn be sure. "wails" don t
coon, ,,nrb in oxcbunre for wealth. Dick
<,oid all reformcrs had TO suffer, and that
he had no doubt poor Bob was Jealous. L
think Bob was annoyed he'd not put on