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The "Editor's box," or, in modern sense, his own little private energy-mill, with its own special handle, usually stands, in modest rivalry for public attention, alongside of these stores of his newspaper; so that any admiring reader of some recent talented or racy editorial can practically show his appreciation by a few turns, more or less numerous or forcible, at the editor's mill. In exciting times, when some great scientific or other question is being hotly discussed, many a zealot in the cause, on one side or the other, may be seen furiously pulling at one or other of these editors' mills, to indicate his highest approval of the latest editorials. Nor is it a bad addition to the refreshment of his deferred breakfast of a morning, for an editor in these times, after the toils of the night, to find upon his table the matter of a hundred Energy, as that morning's collection from adjacent mills.

Editor-admirers, and other disinterested and benevolent persons, will often, in this way, give up gratis even the whole of the day's exercise-energy. Healthy bodily exercise is differently managed now from of old; for even if there were now room upon the world's surface for a "constitutional" in the old sense, that is to say a health-exercise walk, nobody would now dream of such unproductive waste of his strength. Thus every hand's turn, or the turn of any other human limb, is, in these busy and business days, made productive of wealth. When people want ordinary exercise now, they turn ordinary mills; if strong exercise, they go for all members upon tread-