The Newspaper Man

The reason why so few men eomparatively succeed in journalism, says a sensible exchange, is because so few have for it the temperament and the eonstitution. More th;in a inoiety of mankind is slow, lacking in alacrity, and devoid of a sense of proportion. " The art of putting things rapidly in shape is not well understood by the public. This is the reason why we have long-winded sermons, lectures promotiveof somnotency, and magazine work which presupposes that longevity vouchsafed to the long-abiding old gentlemen and ladies of the Old Testament. The public is not inconsiderate- it is only ignorant. The newspaper is a mystery, of the manufacture of which it knows hardly anything. Those who give to it the etithusiams of youth, the vigor of manhood and whalever of wisdom old age may have brougut with it might have abiding fame in this department of literature, or the other, in the field of science, in the arena of public affairs. Taste or accident has betrayed them into a huinble sphere of human exertion, nor do they quarrel with their fortune. He who drifts into journalism rarely leaves it; he still plodson in the daily toil which for htm has a rare fascination. Often there is no fame for him. The cleverest newspaper men may be utterly unknown, and not forgotteii only because he has never been remembered. His heart, however, is stout, at any rute ; and, come competence, or the lack of it - come the highestor the humblest posklon, he still toils with irrepressible cheerfulness, and hopes when all is over with him that his associates who survive him will be reasonably sorry or solemn at his funeral. The theatre manager who was wrecked had light houses to wam him.