The Newtown bee., 1907-03-22

E run being so severe that Robins pred ecessor had given up trying to endure the ordeal in despair. Leaving his 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 hOmes1ck- ness and dtsmay combined to give him an indigo blue. The purpose of reject. ing his work was to test his pluck, to
 break up the style of writing in which
 he had drilled himself and to form his
 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 send for his wife and baby daughter.
 It is always darkest just before dawn
 and it is never wise, Robin found, to
 make an extensive survey of life or
 form general principles of action when at least, till the sun rises. Egypt not only had seven famine years, but seven years of luscious fertility as well.
 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 importance sufficient to call for, a
 heading. The purpose was to supple
 ment the telegraphic news from the local papers, catching interesting bits
 missed by wire, explaining telegraphic
 news that might be obscure or giving
 the connected story of events in this
 or that State important enough to at- fYo<1 Q n iy1cy 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 a 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 sectioA from the Revolu- construction period and in the period since. When finally completed, the | series was accepted by the North American Review, but was later re-
 turned, the author not being of suffi- clent prominence to rank among the Reviews galaxy of writers. The Couri-
 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 in other Southern dailieS.
 The Courier was morning daily, 1 one of the many growing excuses for
 turning night into day, too often re-
 sulting in leaving but fragment of
 night for rest. AS most familiar of
 the force with the politics of his own
 State, Robin was repeatedly routed
 out of bed to report it's principal con-
 ventfons and he found, as many others | have done, that it is not wise to re-
 verse Gods order. He made the night for rest and, whether for business, pleasure or dissipation, it is reckless
 waste to try to steal sleep from the hours of day. It is unnatural and
 often so unsa tisfactory as to lead to collapse.
 How little the general public appre- ciate the labor and sacrifice at which news reaches them in their periodicals! The eye runs over in few minutes,
 heedlessly and thoughtlessly many
 times, what has cost dollars of money, hours of time and toll of brain to pre-
 pare. Give your newspaper man more of sympathy and appreciation, for he labOrS at mint where is struck out product, though seemingly so tran sient and perishable, that has made lives better or worse and has some times swayed the destinies of nations. If the public knew the general effort oO hcSp Ild1lCc duu III VIII lfOLn pOlSOa- ing the columns of the press, they would honor newspaper men more than they do. No item of news is des- picable, properly considered, however trivial, but the most luscious or great est bit of scandal is too mean and con- temptible for any but the jackals and vultures of newspaperdom. Sensation is breaking down the barrier against the lascivious, unclean and slurs, but the noble, honorable and sweet will al- ways command respect and have the most benign influence. Moral consid- start, but the dollars will be cleaner and give more genuine satisfaction. The divine in man will ever revolt or finally be eciipsed, unless it be recog nized and duty written high as watch word above transient pleasure or spe- cious profit.
 While in the Courier office, two boys | came to Robin s home in due success | slon, but the second fell victim to | nurses indiscretion. The little vic 1 tim was May blossom and, soon after his birth, an untimely torrid wave in warned the nurse against keeping the baby too warmly covered, predict ing that colder spell of weather would follow and, if kept sweating through the heated term, be would be was unheeded and the cold was caught. The father proposed calling the doc tor, trusted so thoroughly that he was paid monthly fee for one year to keep the family conditions sanitary and wholesome, but the nurse scorned the suggestion as uncalled for. She could dose the baby, if the father would get patent medicine that she named and an infant remedy of re- nown. The medicine and remedy were got, mores the pity. The doctor was finally called. but too late to save the child from death by morphine poi