The Boys and the Frogs


  SOME editors of newspapers were engaged in diffusing general 
intelligence and elevating the moral sentiment of the public.  They 
had been doing this for some time, when an Eminent Statesman stuck 
his head out of the pool of politics, and, speaking for the members 
of his profession, said:

  "My friends, I beg you will desist.  I know you make a great deal 
of money by this kind of thing, but consider the damage you inflict 
upon the business of others!"