Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-07-08

cellence as a ratter. Your remark that
CLANS will lie quiet II music be played 10
them, was perfuous-entirely super
fluous. Nothing disturbs clans. CLAIMS
alaodys lie quiet. CLAIMS care nothing
whatever about music. All, Heavens and
earth, friend, If you had made the acquir-
ing of ignorance the study of your life,
you could not have graduated with higher
honor than you could to-day. / never
saw anything like It. Your observation
that the horse-chestnut, as an article of
commerce, is steadily gaining in favor, is
simply calculated to destroy this journal
l want you to throw up your situation and
go, l want no more holiday--I could not
enjoy 1t If had it. Certainly not with
you in my chair. would always stand
in dread Of what you might be going 70
recommend next 1t makes me lose all
patience every time l think of your dis
cussing oyster beds under the head of
Landscape Gardening l want you to
go. Nothing ON earth could persuade me
you tell me you didn't know anything
about agriculture
Tell you, you cornstalk, you cabbage,
you son of caulihower It's the first
time l ever heard such an unfeeling re-
mark. tell you have been In the ed
itorial business going on fourteen years,
and it's the first time l ever heard of a
mans having to know anything In order
to edit newspaper. You turnipl Who
write the dramatic critiques for the sec.
ond rate papersS Why, parcel of pro-
NOTED shoemakers and apprentice
apothecaries, who know just as much
about good acting as do about good
farming, and no more. Who review the
booksp People who never wrote one.
Who do up the heavy leaders on finance
Parties who have had the largest oppor-
tunities for knowing nothing about it.
Who criticise the Indian campaignsp
Gentlemen who do not know war-whoop
| from a wigwam and who never have had
to run foot-race with a tomahawk, or
pluck arrows out of the several members
of their families to build the evening camp
fire with. Who write the temperance ap-
peals and clamor about the flowing bowls
Folks who will never draw sober breath
till they do it in the grave. Who edit the
agricultural papers, you-yamf Men, as
a general thing, who fail in the poetry
line, yellow covered novel line, SEN
sation drama line, city editor line,
and finally fall back on agricul-
ture as temporary reprieve
from the Poor House. You try TO tell me
anything about the newspaper business !
Sir, have been through it from Alpha to
Omaha, and tell you that the less a man
knows the bigger noise he makes and the
higher the salary he commands. Heaven
knows if had been ignorant instead of
cultivated, and impudent instead of diff
fident, l could have made name for my
self in this cold selfish world. takemy
leave, sir. Since have been treated as
you have treated me, am perfectly willing
to go. But have done my duty, have
fulfilled my contract, as far as was per.
mitted to do it. said could make your
paper of interest to all classes, and have
l said l could run your circulation up to
twenty thousand copies, and if had two
more weeks I'd have done it. And I'd
have given you the best class of readers
that ever an agricultural paper had-not q
farmer in it, nor solitary individual who
could tell a water melon from peach-vint
to save his life. You are the loser by thi!
rupture, not me, Pie-plant. Adlos."
then left.-Galdry.