San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-07-13
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RIooklyn Eagle.


ana vou know me 2" asked a tall man,
ting his fist on the managing edi-
TO- desk and grinning a grin of superb
,;tv "I reckon you don't know
who ! am! =, -,
savagely,
swell, I thought you didn't know
..,p exclaimed the tall man delighted
y "Now, I'm going to tell You who I
- Look ont nowl The information
:. oomingl I'm Anxious Inquirer who
writes puzzles for the paperl Got me
now9 Begin to identify me9 I'm the
Anxious Inquirer that's mel"
"Are you the man who always wants
- know whether we are drifting. and
when the Democratic party is going to
make its organization impregnable by
widening the Boerum placer Are you
that MANI"
aYes, yes!" roared the tall man with
n chuckle, "and wants to know whether
IT'S healthier to sleep on goose or tail
feathers. and why the President doesn't
assert himself by breaking down the
npposition faction, and whether the
moon is the direct offspring of the
earth or the sun. That's mel I'm that
mani You've read my articles!"
swell, should remark |" replied the
editor. Especially that one which
demanded whether the common coun-
Gil could sink knavery long enough to
connect your house with the sewer, and
another about the duty of the hour as
compared with the lesson of the times
remember them," and the managing
editor rose to his feet.
aThat's it! Those are mine |"
suuealed the tall man. "And that was
mine about the rock on which the Re-
publican party is bound to split, unless
the readers changed their course in
time to avoid the danger that threat
ened them. You remember that one
1t was scorcher!"
"Not patch to the one in the doom
of our educational system if the school
board failed to build new pine fence
around No. 49," said the editor, grad
ually edging around the table. "And
it didn't come anywhere near the one
on the production of whisky in the
West as compared with the prohibitory
tendency of the East!"
II declare You remember those I'd
almost forgotten them," and the tall
mans eyes danced in his head. "But
do you recollcet the discussion between
me and Constant Reader that ran
along for two months, on the advantage
of rye straw over wheat straw in drink.
ing lemonade? Didn't lay him out
Did you ever see man SO badly licked
since you left SCHOOL,"
ut was terrible!" assented the man
aging editor, leaning down and ium
bling behind the door, "but liked the
controversy between you and PRO Be-
no Publico' best, on the subject Of
opening the parks to goats between
Z and 9 a. M"
wasn't that good? Wasn't it:
Wasn't that the closest discussion yor
ever printed? And you remember thai
'Veritas' came in and how I wiped him
I tell you, sir, those thingstake al!
Bang and down came an Indian clut
on his skull.
"Don't know you, don't Il" yelled the
managing editor, as the club rose and
fell with miraculous celebrity and preci
sion. ooh, maybe don't! You and
your spelling, and punctuation and
chirography as bald as o bat Don't Il"
And when they swept out the
splinters of the club and took the
chronic correspondent to the drug store
the managing editor went out to the
form and made up two columns Of
anxious inquiries, ranging from the
price OF ostrich milk to the name o.
the dentist who filed SolomoI's teeth