I never saw a more complete business establishment, and the editorial sanctum looked as if it might be the abiding place of the Muses.

Mirrors, pictures, statuary, books, music, rare curiosities, and fine specimens of birds and minerals were everywhere.

Over the editor's table was a beautiful painting of his youthful daughter, whose flaxen hair, blue eyes, and angelic face should have inspired a father to nobler, purer, utterances than he was wont, at that time, to give to the world.
But Pomeroy's good deeds will live long after his profane words are forgotten.

Throughout the establishment cards, set up in conspicuous places, said, "Smoking here is positively forbidden." Drinking, too, was forbidden to all his employes.

The moment a man was discovered using intoxicating drinks, he was dismissed.