Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1891 — Only an Editor. [ARTICLE]

Only an Editor.

It so happened once that men of various trades got together and held an exposition, and gave practical exhibition of the different crafts, so that tho dear public could see a little of the way in which it was done. While the affair was at its height, a medium-sized man in a threadbare coat walked around among them and talked with the artisans at their work. With the machinist he talked of cranks and engines, rois, shafting and such things in general; with the carpenter he made friends and conversed off-hand about buildings and lumber, joints, circle-heads and the like; he became quite chummy with the blacksmith and gave him a couple of good points on horse-shoeing; the painter was delighted with a new combination of colors that he suggested, and the tanner got an idea on a quick way to take off hair; in fact, every one of the workmen that he stopped to chat with was pleased and voted him a first-class fellow. While the mechanics were standing at the door waiting for the termination of the noon hour, the man in the threadbare coat passed out. “There goes a man who is as good a machinist as I have met in many a day. It’s strange that he is out of a job,” remarked the engineer. “A machinist?” asked the carpenter. “I’ll bet that man has been a boss carpenter at some time. He’s well posted.” “Well, he’s neither,” said the blacksmith; “that man is an A No. 1 horseshoer; he put me on to a point that I had been studying over for some time. ” “No, no, hoys; that chap is a painter, and I should not wonder if he was a frescoer,” broke in the painter. Altogether, they got into quite an argument about the man. Finally, one of them addressed a passer-by and asked: “Who is that man going down the street yonder ?” “That man? Why, that’s 4he editor of the Daily Horn Blower.” “What!” they cried in astonishment, ’ “is that all he is—as smart a man as that running a paper ? Why, anybody can run a paper.” Moral : Of course he can. —Texas Siftings, y