The news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1882-1891, 1882-04-13

abASssyslPldg -uLchln until Ms Dene
we're sereSaDd be protested his perma
neutaabanaonment Of all the glorie
s k.enlmerated. FL s.ass
"Theu come aIoDg,D said she, taking
hin BY iheEcoIIar. '1,st,ras catch you
around with any more ramrods audG
q carving knives, and you'll think til,
leaping,. curling, resistless prairie fire
fhas swept with fefo5ious roar o
triumph across the trembling plains
4 and lodged ilyour pau,aloons to atayl'
-sss- .alpA
7 The EpTToR,4ND THE SHOEMAKER,
20ne day an editor, hard ct word
'4iiryinggto devise q plan to make de.
ipquent subscribers pay their dues,
!, was called upon by-a-sheemaker, who
9PrpfPea iD 10 give the editor some
Valuabie hints on running a newspa-
per. The editor, overjoyed at the OBJ
poFthDity, gave the man his best cane.
bottomed chair, handed him . fresh
cisaf, andlistened attentiveIy. Quoth
the shoemaker, as be lit the weed,
iY our paper needs about hundred
Improved features. You don't grasp
the topics Of the day by the right
1fhaadISI you abhlt set the locals il the
right king Of typei your telegraph
news is too thin; even the paper itself
1 Is poorly manufactured, toc thin, and
etooi chalky a white. You don't run
enough matter, and what you do isn't
Of the right sort Your ideas about
protective tariff are internally foolish,
and your stand on the ConkIing mat
ter, was bad, bad. Itell you these
things because 1 want to see you sue
coed. 4 tell you as friend. I don't
take your paper myself, but l see it
once in while, and as paper is a
public affair, I suppose | have as good
a right to criticize as anybody. fla
man wants to give me advice, let him;
I'm glad to have him, 10 fact" An
I'e'"That's exactly IT," said the editor
kindly. ~ always had d dim idea Of
my shortcomings, but never had them
80 ctearlyIsud convincingly set forth
as by you. Il Is impossible to ex-
press my gratitude for the trouble
you have taken not only to Hnd out
these facts, but to point them out
also. Some people, who know all these
things, perhaps, nearly as we'll as you,
are mean enough to keep them to
themselves Your suggestions came
at the most appropriate time; I have
wanted somebody to lean on, as it
were, for some weeks. Keep your
tsys on the, paper, audEwhsn you see
| weak, spot come up"
ioaTbe shoemaker felt hsppysto know
that bis suggestions had been r..
csived with Christian spirit. Next
day Just as he. YES Rnishiug . boot,
I n II - f-
the editor came IN, and picking up
the mate, remarked: a q
! ,ssLwsnt Ito tell you how that boot
strikes me. In the first place, the
! leather is poor; the stitches Ia the soles
are too wide apart, and the uppsrs too
near the edge, Those uppars wip 20
! Ito pieces 10 I've weeks. It's ell wroag
ny friend, putting poor leather 10 the
heel and smoothing itover with grease
and laupbIack. Everybody complaint
kbout your boots; they den't last; the
legs are too short, the toss ere TO, mar.
row aud the instep too high. How
you can have the gall to charge twelve
dollars for such boots beats me. Nov,
| tell you as Q friend, because l'dlike
to see you succeed. or course, I don't
know any more about sh, emaking than
you do about q newspaper, but etill I
take an Interest 10 YOu because you are
90 well disposed to ms. In fact---"'
Here the exasperated cobbler grab
bed lapstOne, and The editor gained
the street, followed BY old knives,
piuchers, hammers and q Tls sent shter
him by the wrathfui cobbler, who, on
regaining bis seat swore by the nine
| gods that no impertinent, lop.eared
idiot should ever come rouad trying
4 to teach him his trade.
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