. Editors I have known since the civil war (rewritten and reprinted from letters in the Clarion-ledger) . r no one knew just where the tomahawkof the Mascot would fall, for it was no respecter of persons,class or creed. VII. I recall one day when a tobacconist named Van Benthusen,who had been aired in the Mascot, went gunning for itseditor, looking for him in his office and on the streets, fir-ing upon him with a double-barrel shot gun, on Camp street,but the shots were too slow to catch the editor, though theydid find lodgment in the corporeal bodies of passers-by. One day an irate citizen, w
. Editors I have known since the civil war (rewritten and reprinted from letters in the Clarion-ledger) . r no one knew just where the tomahawkof the Mascot would fall, for it was no respecter of persons,class or creed. VII. I recall one day when a tobacconist named Van Benthusen,who had been aired in the Mascot, went gunning for itseditor, looking for him in his office and on the streets, fir-ing upon him with a double-barrel shot gun, on Camp street,but the shots were too slow to catch the editor, though theydid find lodgment in the corporeal bodies of passers-by. One day an irate citizen, who had been given too muchpublicity in the Mascot, called at the office to demand satis-faction. He could find only a deaf old engraver namedZenick, the others having decamped upon approach of themaddened man. Seeing no one else around, and supposing Zenick was oneof the owners, the aggrieved party demanded retraction andsatisfaction. Zenick did not know what he was talking about,if indeed he heard, and being busy, in his rough, German man-ner, gruffly told his visitor to Go to h . That was add- «i,. Col. Henry Watterson EDITORS I HAVE KNOWN 315 ing insult to injury, and the enranged man forthwith pulledhis gun and shot Zenick dead on the spot, a vicarious suffererfor the acts of his editors. Stopping a few days at Biloxi, and meeting Levessee, Iventured to ask him about the Mascot, and said there couldbe one ending only to an editor who wrote as he did, andthe answer was much the same as Brans, I care nothingabout life; have consumption, have only a short time to live,and had as lief die with my boots on as on a cot in a sana-tarium. CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE. How Long Will the Influence of a Good Man Live After He is Gone?—Press Excursion on the Mississippi River to St. Louis.—A Pleasing Moot Court Trial. How long will a man He in the earth ere he rot? askedHamlet of the grave-digger, who responded, If he be notrotten before he die, he will last you some eight year ornine. That
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