Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-08-24

illustrating the Dangers of Giving
Advice.

On day an editor, hard at work
trying to devise a plan to make de-
linquent subscribers pay their dues,
was called upon by stranger who
dropped in to give the editor some val
liable hints on running a newspaper.
The editor, overjoyed at the oppor-
tunfty, gave the man his best cane bot
toned chair, handed him fresh cigar
and listened attentiveiy. Quoth the
shoemaker as he lit the weed, "Iour
paper needs a hundred improved
features. You don't grasp the topics of
the day by the right handle; you don't
set the locals in the right kind Of type;
your telegraph news is too thin, even
the paper itself is poorly manufactured,
/ not thick enough and of too chalEy a
white. You don't run enough matter
| and what you do run amt of the right
sort. Your ideas about protective tariff
| are Internally foolish and yout stand on
the Conkling matter was bad, d bad.
l tell you these things because I want
to see you succeed. I tell you as a
friend. don't take your paper myself
but | see it once in while and as a
paper is a public affair ] suppose l have
as good right to eriticise as anybody.
If man wants to give me advice l let
him; Pm glad to have hina, in fact"
"That's exactly it, said the editor
kindly, 81 always had a dim idea ofmy
shortcomings, but never had them SO
clearly and cOnvincingly set forth as
by you. 1t is impossible to express my
gratitude for the trouble you have ia ken
not only to find cut these facts, but to
point them out alsa- Some people know
ing all these thiags perhaps nearly as
well as you, are mean enough to keep
them to themselves. Your suggestion
came in a most appropriate time; l
have wanted somebody to lean on, as it
were, for some weeks. Keep your eye
on the paper and when you see weak
spot come up
The shoemaker left happy to know
that his suggestions had been received
with such a Christian spirit. Next day
just as he was finishing q boot, the
editor came in. and picking up the
mate remarked,
81 want to tell you how that boot
strikes me. la tie first place, the
leather is poor; the stitches in the sole
are too wide apart and in the uppers
too near the edge. Those uppers will
go to pieces in tive weeks. It's all !
wrong, my friend, putting poor leather |
in the heels and smoothing it over with |
grease and lamp black. Every body |
of your boots; they don't |
last; the legs are too short, the toes toe
narrow and the instep too high. How
the devil you can have the gall to charge |
twelve dollars for such boots beats me. |
Now, I tell you this as friend, because
[ like to sec you suc< eed. Of course l
don't know any more about shoemaking
than you do about a newspaper, but
still 1 take an interest in you because
you are so well disposed to me. In
Fact-'
Here the exasperated cobbler grabbed
l lapstone and the editor gained the
street followed by old knives, pincers,
hammers and avis, sentafter him by the
yrathfM cobbler, who on regaining his
eat swore by the nine gods that no i'm
pertinent, lop cared idiot should ever
ONE round trying to teach him his
rade. 6
Danger in the Wash House
It is common thing for families
vhO patroniza Chinese wash houses to I