The Newtown bee., 1907-03-22

give up his independent editorial po I sition and seek another, where, instead 1 of planning and carrying forward pol ( icies himself, be must become simply is not fitted to lead, however, who has 1 not first humbled himself to receive orders. Robin finally succeeded in Be- curing the place of exchange editor on the Fountain Lots Courier, then one of the best places for drill in newspa- per maneuvers In the country. It was trying work at first, the gauntlet to run being so severe that Robins pred ecessor had given up trying to endure family at Weymouth until he should put his mettle to the test, Editor Robin entered the lists. Naturally homesick at leaving the home which he had supposed permanently located, the new candidates work was thrown into the waste basket and homesick- ness and dismay combined to give him l an indigo blue. The purpose of reject ing his work was to test his pluck, to | break up the style of writing in which manner like that of the Courier. | Robin was for giving up the task as impossible, but light broke through | his darkness, his work was pronounced acceptable and he was glad enough to It is always darkest just before dawn and 1t is never wise, Robin found, to make an extensive survey Of life or form general principles of action when tired, exhausted or melancholy. Wait, at least, till the sun rises. Egypt not only had seven famine years, but seven years of luscious fertility as we'll.
 As exchange editor, Robin had to run over papers from the leading cities of the South and of the West to San Francisco. It was work to his liking and in which he became expert. The clippings were to be worked up for the Courier, some as general news items and some as editorial notes, with now and then an editorial article of length and impor tance sufficient to call for heading. The purpose was to supple ment the telegraphic news from the local papers, catching interesting bits missed by wire, explaining telegraph1c news that might be obscure or giving the connected story of events in this or that State important enough to at- tract general attention. In following out this line of work, matters at the South finally came to be almost entire ly placed under Robins supervision and spurred on by. the encouragement of a member of the publishing firm issuing the worlds most famous dic- tionary, he planned series of articles on education at the South. This in vOlved correspondence with the school officers of those States and search through the census records, for the scope of the articles included educa- tion in that section from the Revolu- tion to the Civil War, during the Re. construction period and in the period series was accepted by the North
 American Review, but was later re-
 turned, the author not being of sufh
 cient prominence to rank among the
 Reviews galaxy of writers. The Court
 CT was glad enough to publish the ar
 ticles in successive issues and they at
 tracted attention at the time in the
 Charleston News and Courier and iI
 other Southern dailies.
 The Courier was a morning daily
 one of the many growing excuses fol
 turning night into day, too often re
 sulting in leaving but fragment O.
 night for rest. AS most familiar O
 the force with the politics of his owl
 State, Robin was repeatedly routed
 ventions and he found, as many other
 have done, that it is not wise to re verse Gods order. He made the nigh for rest and, whether for business pleasure or dissipation, it is reckles waste to try to steal sleep from tn hours of day. It is unnatural an
 often so unsatisfactory as to lead t - collapse.
 a How little the general public appre 8 ciate the labor and sacrifice at whicl 2 The eye runs over in a few minutes 8 heedlessly and thoughtlessly man N times, what has cost dollars of money hours of time and toll of brain to pre- E pare. Give your newspaper man nor F of sympathy and appreciation, for h S labors at mint where is struck out 5 product, though seemingly so tran E sient and perishable, that has mad E lives better or worse and has some times swayed the destinies of nations E If the public knew the general effor E to keep malice and i'll will from poison X ing the columns of the press, the E would honor newspaper men nor v than they do. No item of news is det = picable, properly. considered, howeve
 trivial, but the most luscious or great
 est bit of scandal is too mean and COT
 temptible for any but the jackals an
 vultures of newSpaperdom. Sensatio
 is breaking down the barrier agains ,y the lascivious, unclean and slurs, bu $. the noble, honorable and sweet will a. ce ways command respect and have tn
 most benign influence. Moral consic
 eratiOns may win fewer dollars at tn
 start, but the dollars will be cleane
 and give more genuine satisfaction or The divine in man will ever revolt C
 finally be eclipsed unless it be recOl
 nized and duty written high as watct
 word above transient pleasure or spt
 ciOus profit.
 tc While in the Courier office, two boy
 came to Robins home in due succel
 slon, but the second fell victim to . nurses indiscretion. The little vi,
 tim was a May blossom and, soon afte
 his birth, an untimely torrid way
 made every one uncomfortable. Rot
 in warned the nurse against keepin
 the baby too warmly covered, predict
 ing that colder spell of weathe
 would follow and, if kept sweatin through the heated term, he would t liable to catch cold. The warnin
 was unheeded and the cold was caught
 The father proposed calling the do'
 tor, trusted so thoroughly that he WE paid a monthly fee for one year keep the family conditions sanitar and wholesome, but the nurse scorne 3 the suggestion as uncalled for. St
 could dose the baby, if the fathe
 would get patent medicine that sh :. named and an infant remedy of T. a nown. The medicine and remed ! were got, mores the pity. The docto was finally called, but too late to say V the child from death by nor phine DO
 sap The dnctnr nreci itated tI