The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-07-05
NEWSPAPER LIFE OUT WEST.
Startling n Paper In n Little Town and,Huv-
Ing Fun out OF IL.

startling Paper In n Little Town andIfuv-
Ing Fun out Of IL.
Peck, of the Milwaukee SIN. SAYS;
There is no other business that mortal
man ever engaged in, that embraces
such continued round of pleasure and
glad surprises MS attends the establish.
ing and conducting of n country news
paper i'll a small town out West.
There is always i'll every city, he says,
| some young man who thinks his stock
OF divine afflatus is too large, moro than
ho can possibly hold another minute
without blowing of or exploding and
killing some ono, and it is often such q
| young man who wants to get into tho
| newspaper business. Hc goes to some
out of the way country town, and whce-
dies few of the lending business men
into the idea that they need n paper to
| boom the place, and four or five hundred
| dollars is subscribed and tho fun COM
| mcnccs. For few weeks, or perhaps
months, until the novelty of having
paper in the new town wears off, hlsi-
ness is very good and the man thinks
he has struck it rich, and he refuses to
sell out, Mt fabulous price. But before
long reaction sets in. His stock of
energy commences to play ont, the
people don't worry much whether the
paper comes out or not, subscribers re-
fuse to pay or take the paper, advertise
ing gets low, the Office hands arc obliged
to steal wood, and stand the corner gro
Gerry oil for soap for the Office.
Th" proprietor finds his bills Mt the
the stores nccmnlating, and getting
bigger than the advertising accounts
Will pay. Tho business men OF the
place send away to other towns for Job
work, and tho editor is laid up on sick
bed from the effects Of malling he
gets from some esteemed citizen, on &C,
count of an article that appeared in the
paper A draft from the paper house
lies in tho bank unpaid, and to save it
from protest, tho editor hlstles around
and borrows money that he don't know
as he will ever be able to pay. In his
walks by day he is constantly harrasscd
by his creditors and his dreams by night
are full of all manners of tcrrors. He
wonders from week to week what he
will have for the next weeks issue, or
how he will pay the butcher for the last
liver he had for dinner. He makes a
vigorous effort to be appointed post
master OF the town to give him somo
ready cash, but fails through lnck of
political influence runs for County
Clerk, but is beaten by one of the old
settlers out Mt the corncrs, whose wife is
sick, and the people want to do some
thing to help him out.
After a few years of trials and hard
ships of this kind, the poor man gives up
in despair and sells out to some other
man who never had any newspaper cx-
pcricnce, and don't know how much fun
there is in the business. And SO it gn;m.
The above picture may be ovcrdrnwn III
somo particulars, but in others il falls
far below tho average. But some enc
hns got to print papers in country towns,
and 80 we suppose there will always be
men who can tell Of tho hardships and
diacolrnGing Incidents attending tho
publication of n paper, i'll II town that
cannot support it,
But after nll is said, any man who
ever started II newspaper in II small town,
will swear that SO long us he could keep
out of the poor house he had more fun
than you could shake IL stick at.