A BISHOP WHO COULD SET TYPE

New Zealand Tablet, 3 June 1915, Page 47

A BISHOP WHO COULD SET TYPE

' I have got a little item for your paper,' said a : clerical-looking gentleman to the editor of the Portland, Me.,-.l rr/iis one day in the spring of 1860, as he walked into the sanctum. Items were meat and drink to the country editor in those days, and are yet, for that matter. From the cut" of the visitor's garb this editor thought he had some item of church news,, and, taking up his pencil, he told his caller that he would be glad to print anything he might have to offer. ' Oh, I'm an old typo and I'll set it up myself if you don't mind,' said the visitor, and appearing not to the-editor's, amazement, he sauntered into the composing room. Finding an unoccupied case and an ~ .empty stick, he set up the item out of the case without ' any copy. The boys iii the office refrained from their usual guying, for the manner of the clerically clad typesetter forbade any badinage, as he handled his stick and behaved like one of the craft. - We was watching them .out of the corner of his eye, and when he had set less than a stickful, he read the matter over as he crossed the room to the oldfashioned proof press, laid his stick on the bed without dumping his take on a galley, inked it, and pulled a proof. He looked it over and found it clean enough to submit to the editor. This is how it read : • ' Among the visitors to our town to-day is the Right Rev. Josue M. Young, Catholic Bishop of Erie, Pa. He will be in town for a few days to renew old acquaintances. As a boy he learned his.trade as a printer in the office of the Argus, and. by the kind permission of the editor it is he who has set up this item to \ let old friends hereabout know that he will be glad to meet_ them. He is stopping at the Catholic rectory.' J