The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904Various
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The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904
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English literature -- Periodicals; Short stories, English -- Periodicals
Entered at the Rising Star Post-Office as Second-class
Mail matter. Published every Friday.
"DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO TO YOU, AND DO
IT FUST"
Editorial
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This is 1901, have you resolted any yet? If you have
been making a dozzen New Year resolutions and breaking
them all in about 30 days, try the plan this time of
making only six and see if you can't keep your integrity
with at least three of them.
In this New Year, A D 1901 make a grave effort to "Do
unto others as you would have them do to you, and do it
FUST"
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The Mav Enterprise has gone into hence,--is a mournful
corpse. She died, according to a hasty post mortem
examination, of a malignant attack of impecuniosity
fever or financial strangulation.
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The X-Ray makes a motion that the people of Eastland
county instruct their next Representative to the
Legislature to introduce a bill in that honorable body
against the sale of toy pistols, firecrackers, and
torpedos of every description.]
Even in the civilized Southern States to the east of the Mississippi
editing was not fifteen years ago a healthy pastime. On one occasion,
when I was assisting a friend in Georgia, a citizen in a high state of
excitement entered the "editorial sanctum"--they are very particular
about the dignity of these epithets in America--and riddled the walls
and my desk with bullets from a revolver.
Luckily, I happened not to be there, but in the composing-room, engaged
in making-up the editorial page. My eye dwelt lovingly on a neat row of
paragraphs, one beginning in this wise:--
If our esteemed (but chronically overheated) fellow-townsman,
Sam Beale, will take our advice, etc.
[Illustration: "THE MALLET GRAZED MY EAR AND CRASHED INTO THE WALL."]
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