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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 5

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This little story is from the San Francisco Argonaut: James Gordon Bennett has a way of dropping in to examine the Herald at the most unexpected times, and as his visits often result in general shake-up and re-organization of the paper's managerial, editorial, and working forces, they are awaited with fear and trembling. On one of these occasions, one of the pressmen, a man who had worked for the elder Bennett, and was an excellent workman, though guilty of an occasional lapse from sobriety, had a bad black eye, and was in a quandary as to what excuse he should offer if Bennett noticed it. Acting on a sudden inspiration, he seized an ink-roller and rubbed a daub of ink on the side of his face, completely concealing the discoloration of the skin. Presently Mr Bennett came into the pressroom, and with the superintendent, John Hays, went carefully through, criticising every detail, and looking sharply at each employee. When about to leave, he turned suddenly, and looking at the besmirched pressman, said, « Mr Hays, ؟what is that man's name? » The culprit quaked in his shoes until Mr Bennett said slowly « I want you to give that man $ 3 per week more wages. He is the only man in the room that looks as if he had been working. »