The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-07-12
The LONG FELT WANT.


BIZ Eyc Tells US How he Printed A
Daily Paper in a Town Where
There Was No Room For Il.
toycd with daily once which was
Incorporated to fill long felt want
did not know it was loaded. We made
it our business to boom everything that
was bDomablc and to suecr at the lack
of enterprise of our adversary. We got
specials by mail, press reports by slow
freight and showed style of fearless en-
tcrpriSc that was the envy and the adj
miration of many large metropolitan
Journals. We thought that our adver-
Sgry woulln't lost more than a month
after election. but Thanksgiving cam
and found the Evenins Squawker still
on deck. The editor would come and
borrow print paper Of us and then use it
to call us the slime be!ccked and putrid
exponent 0! a still more baneful political
faction. We would borrow a font of
BREWER of him and characterize his paper
as the wailing foundling, dying in the
poisonous vapors of the deadly swamp
of political fifth, wherein it had chosen
its bed, edited by the bitter foe of the
laundress and Lindlcy Murray, man
who had evaded justice for forty years,
and, not content with the outrage of all
moral sen. had declared war on the
spelling cook.
Thus W. kept;u,, a Spirited coa.-test for
4 long tlin.GT Sometimes we couldn't gG5
"9t .afer out Of the freight office and
sometimes he couldn't, but we would
loan each other the last quirc we had
and keep friendly, While through tie
columns Of our respective papers we
spoke of each other in language which
might have been construed as reproacl
full to some people.
1t was al exciting time. One day the
Squawker would offend subscriber and
he would come over to us, and the next
day We would unwittingly tread on the
toes Of one Of our great army Of sub
scribcgs and he would go over to the
enemy.
The editor OF the other paper and n.y.
self saw that it was going to be a war OF
determination. We ground our teeth
and cur shears ansl sail in. At the
end Of tie first year he had discharged
his servant girl and my paper owed me
$500 salary. 1t the end OF the second
year he had blown in his fine brick resi-
dcncc and had taken my salary as Pc
lice Justice and thrown it into the rapG
cious nav of my little hungry long felt
want.
One day the little, muddy, measly,
long suffering features of the Evening
Squawker failed to appear. We kept
asking the office boy why the SquawkeI
didn't come. He didn't know. Finally
| he went to the publication office. The
door was locked, y map of Dakota was
hung over one window and printer
towel over the other. The Office boy
| raised the map and stole il. The TN
cci tain light here and there broke in
struggling rays through tie threadhare
! places in the towel. On the desk lay 4
letter from the advertiser Of Collie
Eraser in which he offered to take q
column in the Sqnawker year, follow,
ing puie reading matter and with 1000
| lines of reading notices to be strung
| along through editorials from day to
day, in bcldfaced type, and in consid
Grafton therefor to furnish for two years
to the ,ditor or his order fifty bottles o.
the Collie Eraser at publishers price, de
| liIered on board the ears.
L Everything about the office show
that the work had b, N going bravely
on when the summons came. Ii fact
| the summons lay there on the dcsl
among other papers, along with writ
of attachment for $253.S5. This shows
what 4 hold a paper gets on its sub
scribrrS and also what 4 hold the sub
scribcr gets on the paper. The Sheritl
| had been a subscriber to the Sluawker
ever since it started, but we didn't know
his attachment for the paper was {
! great.
We won the day, but at what sacrifice
The smoke of conflict cleared away ant
| showed that the victory was not worthy
of the carnage. We had survived bu
we We're not proud. The Squawker hat
| fought US bravely, and now its still, colo
| form lay in State i'll the basement of tn,
chief creditor and the usual notice @
attachment was tackled Oh the door.
The editor and myself met on the fcl
| lowing day, and he was the more cheer
full OF the Two. lie said he felt SOFT.
for me-
Il can use what l get hereafter OH m.
family" said he; "but you can't. lol
will feel guilty il you buy barrel o
flour for your own use, knowing that i
may imperil the next issue of the paper
have passed all that.
And he was right. The quicker maj
decides to cease publishing a daily papc
where it is not needed, jus, simpl.
hiough high moral sense of duty, tn
sooner he will become light-hearted anC
Joyous. paid s., 010 for the privileg
of knowing this, and Ipresent it to ever.
paid-up subscriber without money ant
without price. | don't know very much
but if there's anything l do know, ant
know it hard, and know it with on
hand tied behind me, it is that.-D,trot
free Press.
Simple Methods With GraDes.
Grapes are so easily grown that plan
vine almost anywhere you will, you ca
! dpuCul uuDn abundant annual crOpS aftc