Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1884 — The Managing Editor of a St. Louis Paper. [ARTICLE]

The Managing Editor of a St. Louis Paper.

When a very mad man rushes into the St. Louis Chronicle office with a club and expresses in emotional tones a disposition to annihilate somebody, he is politely referred to Miss Fannie Bagby, the managing editor. It is not hard to imagine the sensations of a person, frothing at the mouth and thirsting for a human life, upon being introduced into the presence of a shy young girl, whose fair cheeks reek with timid blushes, and in whose sar tied eyes comes the look of a frightened- fawn. The murderous man coilaps s in a chair and his hideous weapon of death falls to the floor. The man thinks himse.f a brute to have thus boisterously thrust himself into the presence of a shrinking woman, and he begins to stutter out apologies, while the beautiful young editor continues blushing and trembling in a delirium of dismay. Yet in reality she is no coward. Emergencies have arisen in which this fair journalist has demonstrated her pluck and agility. It is to her credit that she never goes armed and she will not even adopt the precaution of keeping a pistol in the drawer of her desk. But she can slap and scratch with marvelous dexterity, and huge, hulking men have been seen tottering out of her presence with their eye-balls hanging out on their cheeks and their noses split open like a quail on toast.—Chicago News.