The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-28
A GLIMPSE OF GLIDER
How the Editor of the Century Maya
zine Came to His Position.
Christian Endeavor World.

Christian Endeavor World.
Il was not at all a phenomenal child"
said MIR. Glider TO the reporter. Il read a
good deal. My father was a Methodist
preacher, a school principal also, and a
man who wrote, and had many books. But,
really, L was a sort of Jekyll-and-Hyde
reader; L can't tell exactly why L was. L
loved ~passionately Paradise Lost but 1
longed as keenly for a yellow-backed dime
novel which L begged from the colored
codchman or my uncle, and absorbed with
beating heart in the shelter OF the stable.
There was adventure-plenty of it-in both
books, and / did not draw a close distinc-
ton between the grades of adventure. The
yellow-backed novel was wild. but. as L
adventurous dime novel that rots the
young heart. However. L am not recon-
mending the dime novel. L think that a
child can make many delightful pilgrim
ages in a library. with no one to conduct
him, provided the library is not French
Mr.. Glider was as deliberative and easy
his desk and l were not bothering him.
Now l discerned that he has the poets face
and the editors hand. He seems like one
who has been in delicate health all his life.
He is now ffty-seven years old, and L can
almost behold him at seven with that same
sensitive face. i shrink from an inter-
VIEW, he once wrote TO me. But this little
talk, these sOnant hiatuses on a sunny De-
Cember morning before an open fire, this
was no Interview"
You ought TO have some data, I sup
pose" continued Mr.. Glider. hurrytng into
the next room, where the assistant editors
work. Mr.. Glider could have sent the Of
hce-bOy OF the errand, the ofice-boy
whom l heard him address in terms of
good fellowship; but he chose himself to
go; he appeared to relish doing me a IA
vOr. No doubt this kindliness commenced
in the days when little Richard set up a
miniature newspaper. the St. Thomas Ca
zette. named for his fathers school. and
published editorials Intended Ito instruct
and uplift mankind" This shy. delicate
man went to war as an artilleryman and
is a member OF a Grand Army post. Umpire
tentious, constant helpfulness, with a
humble reliance or one higher, has occu-
pied no mean place in the reason for MIR.
elders advancement from a position as
reporter On the Newark IN. j. Advertiser
20 that of editOr-in-chief of the Century.
Here is the scrapbook." he said, opening
IL before me. Under the subject Glider
you will find me abused and appreciated.
and a good deal of the abuse is deserved.
This is amusing. 1 am dissected under the
topic. Eminent Literary Editors of Ameri-
ca. l wonder what IN p~literary editor is
like? Once l had a queer experience with a
reporter. He asked me all kinds OF Ques-
ttons, and l was made 10 answer them on
paper in a way Numerically opposed TO
what 1 had actually said. l served as the
ardent convictions: and l don't imagine the
fellow knew he was not quoting me"
Would you. dear reader, speak with gen.
tie humor Of a reporter who. after inter-
viewing you, not only omitted TO show YOU
copy before publication, but misrepresented
you throughout the length and breadth of
his cOlumns?