Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-09-14
How Stubbs Got Ahead Of Father
Griys0n.

PRACTICAL printers, and especially
those Who are connected with newspapers,
do not often consider individuality in the
type of a newspaper heading as matter
of much importance. They can identify
any regular newspaper at a glance. 1t is
not necessary for them to see the heading.
Little pee aliarities in type, paper, compo-
sition, impression, etc.-peculiaIites SO
nice that they cannot be explained by
words, reveal the name of the paper quite
as clearly as the heading itself. There are
men who, from moments inspection OF a
fragment torn from the center OF any OF
the leading newspapers of this city, Will
give the name of the paper from which 1t
was taken with never failing accuracy.
But the mass of newspaper readers have
not been educated in habits of nice OBJ
servation. They cannot tell the World
from the Tribune, until they see the print
ed verification on the paper. Father
Grigson was of this class. For more than
twenty years he had been in the habit of
reading the morning papers at the Astor
House. A sound Democrat of the old
school, who had voted for Jefferson and
Jackson, who believed in the Virginia re-
solutions of '98 and the States rights
theories of Calhoun, and whose sympathies
for the South during the late unpleasant
ness" were undisguised, how could it be
expected that he could read anything but
undefiled Democratic literature? For he
was full seventy five years old, his eye
sight, even when aided by spectacles, was
failing, and reading was somewhat OF an
exertion. Every day, at II o'clock, Father
Grigson entered the reading room OF the
Astor House, and peered through his spec
tacles in quest of the World. He would
read no other paper. If it was engaged,
he would wait his turn, and amuse him
self. in the meanwhile, by stroll in the
hail, and by taking politics with that
clever fellow, but incorrigible Republican,
Stubbs. Talking was his strong point.
GIigson had rasping tongue, and in de-
bate Stubbs was always Worsted.
Stabbs plaun,d revenge. Early one
morning he selected clean copy of the
New York World, and with great neatns S.
cat out all the headings Then selecting
fine copy of the New York Tribune, he
proceeded to over.ay and paste thereon il
taultless style The clipped headings of the
World. After an hoar's labor in pasting
over and smoothing down edgesaud creas
ing folds, he succeeded in making coun
terfeit that would have imposed on bet
ter judge than Grigson. The raveninG
radical wolf of a Tribune was completely
metamorphosed in the sleeps clothing o
the guileless World. This done, he laiC
the sophisticated paper in the way of Grig
son, took the opposite seat, tilted up hi
chair, lit a cigar, and waited developments
In due time Father Grigson arrived, ant
seized the shameless fraud. After tn
usual preliminary of wiping his spectacles
he commenced to read. And there So
: Stubbs, calmly putting and philosophical
surveying the expression of wonder an
) perplexity that stole over Father Grigson'
, face, as he read an editorial criticising tn
conduct OF the Democracy. He shook hi
head, skipped the conclusion of the hal
read article, and commenced the next ed
torial. Horror! 1t was most outrageou
assault On Southern statesmen-CalhouI
McDufiie, Toombs and Davis were abused
and the war on the S Duth was justified an
the paper with intensest bewildermen
He read the World on every page. Ther
could be no mistake. The World ha
gone over to the enemy. Just heavens
what were we coming to! Ben Butte
) had apostatiZed, and Dan Sickles ha
made clean shipwreck of faith, and no.
comes the high treason of Manton Mal
blei And all without word of explains
ton or apology. Yesterday, a sound col
servative paper; to-day, a pestilent breede
of strife and Radicalism.
Sadly he took up the paper again, an
examined a third editorial. Who sha
describe the disgust that seized him as b
E read the muscular English Horace, cryin
aloud for the emancipation proclamatio
. and the arming of negroes? Just then h
saw the malignant Stubbs, grinning sa
: donically. 1t was too much. He wf
= consumed with wrath and indignation
but he said not a word. He seized IL
= = wretched, traitorous sheet, tore it to ia
ters, and smote it with his cane, stampe
!, on it, spit en- it, and then strutted out
;. the house, in manner that Coriolanl
. woald have commended Stubbs W,
e avenged of his dversary.-Americd
= Newspaper Reporter.