Year: 1872




OF course there isn't n more delightful


spot III the world than an editorial sane.


tnm. IT you doubt it, just ask any man


who has spent several years there, wear


ing out his brains in perpetual efforts tU
4 write tirst-class articles, aud having the


same brains bothered every five minutes


by people who can't understand how glo-


riously he is enjoying himself Here is


how Il writer in the Detroit Free Press


talks about the pleasures peculiar to the


deep, grim silence of the sanctum.


No one ever comes up into the rooms


OF the top story of u four sIpry building,


set apart for the staff of day paper.
This is why every article reads so evenly


and smoothly. All you've got to do If
You belong to the staff is to climb up


there, sit NIL day long in the deep, grim


silence, and when midnight comes you


can lower yourself down stairs with n


consciousness that every article will read
like clock-work


Yesterday morning | commenced an


article entitled "The Unseen Influences


of the Spirit World. aud had zone as


far as to say that Although we hear no


voices, there is some subtle influence per.


vadlng the when man came up
with IA demand for correction of an ar
ticle charging him with bigamv. You
have to keep right on with m idea when
You get hold of it, and so / run him in


Pervading the air about ycI all the
time Potter Smith has called at this office
to say that the unheard voices coming
from the dead often swerve us from he
isn't the man mentioned as having two
wives the path marked out by the obsti-
nate--'


Here another man came in and wanted
notice of his new building,)


"-splrits which refuse to yield to that
new block on Michigan Avenue, although
Smith is directly charged by the police
with n marble front and 120 feet deep
At night, after days toll, who does not
love to sit down and let his mind run to
the mysterious, shadowy basement under
1t and stone caps above the windows we
take great pleasure in setting Smith right
before his fellow-citizens, and"


Here n man came up and wanted to
look at State map, although he coult.
have found one down stairs.


--" Certainly, sir look at all the State
maps You want to and call back the spir-
1t of some dear friend gone before as will
ascertain the name of the policeman who
wrongfully accused mr, Smith of having
a frontage on Michigan Avenue, which |
helps the look of that street very much, |
and you will find the county Of Hillsdale |
further to the left of that land from
which no one has ever returned to tell |
as whether our friends are sad or joy
ful-"


Here boy came up and wanted to
sell some tonka beans to keep the moths
off,


-" Thank We, bub, don't want any ton
ka beans if you ever want to look ut any
more of our maps come right up with a
roof to crown all, and Smith is
now set right before the public and his
friends generally, who have thus i'm
proved the town and commune with
hem as to whether moment of sadness
Ioes not occasionally steal over them as
hey think of the fond friends left behind {
ONE up again and I'll talk with you /
bout the tonka beans and every patriot ,
, citizen ought to keep State map in +
is new block on Michigan Avenue Smith i
tates that one of his wives serted him Y
n Illinois and the other"


Here subscriber came in and wanted
, know why no paper was issued the day =
fter Thanksgiving -
-' Because it was day set apart for !
ne hundred and forty four windows in "
le entire block with tonka bean, enam- y y
led on State maps to mourn their early -.
aparture through the valley and the ~
ladow of death | don't want You to
other me any more Mr.. Smith about &C &C
'nr wives and come bub get right down th
airs now with your beans to chat spirit III
nd where all joy and peace the compos- eir
DIS wanted holiday and it's against st'
g principles of Christianity TO-" ra
Here boy came up with basket of VI
'ples.)


-" Forever more can't eat apples ow
& to my teeth and Smith is now made ea
'od for any beans which any State map of
with this Office has nothing but ar
y and peace to mark the never-ending M
me I'll break your neck if you say ap C,
es to me again and you see that the be
Nv block spoken Of has no bigamy to tn
owe the moths don't apple the tonka of
,ans sold in Hlllsdale county" W