Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-07-01
A NEW PUBLICATION.


8 of the first volumn of a new publica-
ton entitled Human Life, published
monthly at Boston, Mass, and edited
by that prince of philosophers, Alfred
Henry Lewis. That part of whose sal
utatory relating to the future relations
to be maintained between Human Life
and truth, we herewith republish:
1t is the precedental thing, when an
editor is called to the chair of mag
azine, for him to announce in periods
more or less pompously solemn what
shall be his conduct of the publication.
For myself, have ever distrusted the
value of those doorstep declarations.
Your editor, like many an other man, is
prone to take himself too seriously. He
overestimates his Importance and mag
ines an eminence in his own favor that
does not exist. With the magazine as
a fashion of promontory wherein to pose
himself, he considers how like some far
faring lighthouse he will presently shoot
forthrays for the guidance of mankind.
In this manner, and self-puffed beyond
a merit, your editor often invokes
laugh from the onlooker, and sometimes
sows the seeds for trouble for himself.
The hour we live in is decisively the
hour of common sense, and the turkey
gobbler, with his eye-flling strut, has
less of actual honor done him than has
the transformations hen that lays the
egg. Mere promise is at a discount,
while performance alone goes at par.
Wherefore, with the readers permis
sion, l sign no bond as to how well
shall discharge the responsibilities
have assumed when now l accept the
editorship of Human Life. / confine
myself to the assurance that, with 10y
atty to the readers of the magazine as
a star to hold by, my task shall be per-
formed to the best of my bent.
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While the object of Human Life is
people, says Mr.. Lewis, it's sole purpose
shall be truth. Aside from propriety
there should dwell Golconda of profit
in the policy. Truth is sparse, rare; one
should have the field excessively to one S
self. And what is scarce has ever an
unusual value; it is that to put figure
on ruby. have more than once won
dered at the persistent truth-famine that
attends the race in its march. Truth is
of such easy cultivation and returns so
rich harvest of advantage in actual
cash-box kind, it seems a marval that
folk have not been more industriously
about its husbandry, One may with
even labor upon an equal acreage, raise
ten bushels of truth to one of menda-
city, not to mention the market-fact
that truth will find tenfold the number
of customers at tenfold the price.
1t marks the race for purblind and
strangely perverse that it has dipped so
sparingly into truth-culture. Men go
miles afeld, and MOL and toll from dark
to dark, to bring home back-load of
worthless lies, when harvest of golden
truth stands nodding within touch of
their very doors. Human Life will re-
fuse to make that weary mistake. 1t
will talk of people, and it will tell the
truth, confident that in so doing, while
it may be pointed to as more or less
unique, it will hold the interest and
command the respect of its readers,
and, per incident, gather to itself those
gold rewards, wanting which, in this
money-manage hour, no enterprise,
whether it be black or white, may de-
scribe itself as having triumphed.