The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-02-27

ltis from no unwillingness to obllge,
but from necessity that we give our
readers and patrons notice that we can.
not be held responsible for the publica-
tion of any local news or business items,
the Writing Of which is left to our memo.
ry. However firmly we resolve TO 60
Immediately to our desk and put it on
paper, experience shows that if we are
interrupted, the matter is not thought of
again. If our friends had any concep.
ton of the multitude Of details to which
VIC have to give attention each day, they
would wonder we are not in the lunatic
asylum. We. are frequently given per.
sonal and news items by those who de-
sire them published, which we are thank.
full to get and would gladly publish, and
we resolve to get them in the next paper,
but before we have an opportunity to
write them they are forgotten, only
to be remembered again when 1t is too
late to use them. We may say in this
connection that in these matters we are
no respectcr of persons. Rich and poor,
high and low are alike to us. We hold
ourselves under no obligation to either,
but we ure under obligation to the public
as a newspaper publisher, to give them
the news, and our chief regret is that VIC
have failed in that regard. Sensitive
people finding themselves disappointed
few times and not knowing how much
oftener we have failed in making men.
tion OF their richer and supposed more
influential neighbor, attribute 1t to design.
We believe we are incapable of acting
on such a motive, but If not, we are not
80 blind to our selfish interests as to
allow personal Iantagonisms and preju.
dice to enter into our work as journalists.
So far, we can say truthfully we never
have, and we feel tolerably safe in say
ing we never shall.
But this aside, let us suggest a better
way. If there is anything concerning
yourself or familyIor friends or your bus
iness, or the affairs of the public that
you desire to see in print, write 1t down
and hand to US. II don't matter whether
you can construct good sentences or spell
well or punctuate or capitalize or not,
just write IL down in any shape you can.
We are too old and too busy To waste
time in ridiculing your blunders and
faults, If you have any, aud we guaran-
tee that when 1t gets into print, If we
have the ability, you shall write like a
Johnson, or an Irving, or an Emerson,
and be as free from errors as though you
were the most finished classical scholar,
and your name were prefxed and suffix.
ed by all the learned titles known to the
scholarship Of the world. Indeed II any
OF our readers, hitherto unrecognized in
the literary world, ore pining for no.
toriety or fame, we would recommend
them to write for the ENTERPRISE. We
are not entirely sure but we have already
made the everlasting reputation of sew.
eral who have contributed to our col.
umnS by dressing up their early literary
effusions until they hardly knew them
themselves. But seriously 1t is much
better 10 write 1t down than to spend
your time, and take ours in telling it to
US, and take the chances Of our being
called off and never thinking Of 1t again.
Though it takes but few moments, con
slider that you are only one Of half a
dozen who call every day on similar
errand, while two or three times that
many perhaps call on other matters, en-.
tirely personal To themselves, breaking
up our time into fragments so that we
cannot get time to write five consecutive
sentences in a whole day, and 20 we are
compelled to work far into the night,
when honest people are In bed In order
furnish you with your weekly
newspaper diet. And remember II you
are ever tempted to remark upon Its
thinness and lack Of flavor, under what
unfavorable conditions It is cooked, and
you will wonder that 1t is not smoked
and burned, and in every way rcpulsive.
Don't attempt to come up on our weak
side by flattering our vanity, telling us
how much quicker and better we can
write It than you can, and that you
havn't the time, you have so much TO do
Or course we have plenty Of time and
nothing else to do, but lei US remind