The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-25
THE EDITOR D1ssIPATING ON SUNDAY

ceaIed. He must publish The Bard
Of Punlinn's" eIegiac lines. thirty-nlne
stanzas, on the sad death or ms BOSOM
friend Johnnie McCOrmac-Whosec hleL
recommendation is that the poor VIC
tim had gone to a sphere where he was
NOT likely ever to hear of the perpetra-
ton He must keep one eye on jimmy
CoyIe's potato patch tready to an
ntunce the first tuber of the season.
and the other on the policy OF the ma
ton. To the crowned heads of Europe
he must give timely warning of the
rocks and shoals he discerns ahead or
their ships of state, and 70 the town
land of Thrummon announce the eXacr
weight and dimensions Of the eXtTaOr-
binary egg laid on last Thursday bNf
Cornelius McGlanarchy's spotted duck.
MichaePs numerous army of CORE
spOndents, for he has a correspond
ent-an aspiring literary MANN
each district, salaTied with salary of
one copy of the Universe per week
has got to be kept in hand, humored,
and their energies turned into the
proper channels: their talent for fo-i
mancing has got to he gently and firmly
repressed, their copy sternly edited and
their poems" published, or promised.
As there is a marriage, a meeting
an inquest or a funeral every other
day of the week, Michael can easily
dHOfu 10 TAKE 10 u1AlSEtL dllJ uclFs uuL
Sunday. Consequently on the Sabbath
he only takes notes of Father Dams
sermon, picks UD items from the ma
tives of the outlying districts who
materialize once week at mass, clears
off his correspondence score, and heaves
the sigh of a man who has unburthened
his conscience. Then he is prepared to
fill a new weeks work with good nerve
and cool courage.
Queer Libel Suits. I
Michael has been defendant in only
ten libel actions in an editorial career
Of Twenty-Five years-which is a rec
ord IN Irish provincial journalism; and
IN only 20 per cent of these was the
decision given against him, which is
another record. For fair comment
is very much limited in it's signifi-
canoe on this side the water-where
the omission of a mans name from
/ funeral list has been presumed to prove
malice. OF MichaeFs libel actions.
ironical correspondents brought on him
nine, and for the tenth he was him
self unconSciOusly responsible. when.
intending only a harmless satire Of
E'"ddv the Blast Il. e.. BOaster1 he
said, in writing of an amazingly large
donkey which Mr.. Murnaghan, the
magistrate, had just imported into the
district, he said: In short. ii is the
most extraordinary ass any one in this
part OF the country has ever seen. with
the possible exception of our friend
Patrick Curnien."
Poor Michael really had not the
remotest intention of conveying thai
! Patrick was phenomenally the superior
/ Of Mr.. Murnaghan's quadruped-but a.
| perVerSe jury, who slept during three
hours of grammatical demonstration!
awarded Paddy the Blast a solatiuui
| OF 81 for the irreparable injury done
| his character.
Yet the country people do not RELY
| solely upon The Universe for news Of
the outside world. The shoemaker and
the tailor get Dublin weekIies, and the.
| neighbors for a long distance around
| gather at night to hear the news. read
aloud, and to discuss and debate it,
| The schOOlmaster. too, gets a Dublin
weekly and American papers are taken
to him. All these he reads and ex-
pounds to his listeners-people who
cannot AFFORD the extravaganza of {.
| paper of their own.
In our fathers early DAYS the great
| Dublin weekly, The Nation. which cosd
| stXpence, was subscribed for by cluh
| Of the neighbOTs in each big -dfstrfctf
| the ta1lOr's son was paid a siXpence for
| travelling to Donegal town to intercept
/ the mail coach and get our COPY: and
on sunday afternoons when the neigh
| bors gathered, Ellen, the tailors daugh-
| ter, was hoisted upon a chair on the
| table, from which position she read
/ aloud Dan O'Connelrs laundering
/ denunciatiOns Of misruIe and persecu-i
| ton, the fiery words of Davis and of
| Mitchell, and the ringing ballads of
| the young ITelanders.
Ellen, Dan O'Connell. The NatfonZ
| all three are gOne-but all three are
| by us, not forgotten
SEUMAS MACMANUS. 8