The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1884-10-18
HODGES THEORY.

n. Practical working, as Told by mn Ia.
Managing Editor Editors In thu Count
g.Room, and Hook. Keeper. In tho Edi.
torisi sanctum -rh. final Catastrophe.
When met John II. Burbank at the
Union Depot. ut Kansas City, and he re-
qucstcd the loan OF two dollars, ] was
surprised and shocked, because when |
had last heard Of him ho was tho man
aging editor Of the ------ I0st, and
doing very well. Now his pants we're
frayod out at the bottom, his ancient
Prince Albert cont was scared with
grease and pinned together In the front
and his general aspect was one Of dilapi-
dation and distress. lie also appeared
TO have been drinking. drew him
aside and ycnturcd to ask how he came
to leave his former pleasant and re-
muneratve position.
"The Post" he replied, in n moody
tone Of voice, " has gone up tho spout"
=" ls that possiblep said. In surprise.
"Why il had fine circulation and was
doing good business when knew Of
IT,"
"ics. II has gone up the spout" re-
pcatcd Burbank, "and gone up. too,
through such strange combination Of
circumstances that ! doubt whether
they were ever paralIoled in tho history
Of journalism"
was meek enough TO ask what they
were, and without brcak or pause. or a
particle Of expression, ho told mo the
following remarkable story:
"You know old man Hodges he
said, "who got the Post about n year
ago, didu't know anything about the
newspaper business. lie had made all
his money out Of saw.mill. and
bought the paper because he thought Il
was smart aud gcntcc 10 be n profes.
sional man. OF course he was full Of
cranky notions and peculiar ideas, but
We put up with them the best we could
and managed TO get out pretty good
looking paper until summer time. You
80, business Is always dull In the hot
months and news Is scarce. but old
Hodges didn't know that. and ho began
10 kick. llo attributed the shrinking
Of the advertisements 10 the poor quail
ity Of the read ny matter. and cursed
both departments regularly every day.
snow, there never was n newspaper
business Office tina, wasn't ynry forward
about giving advice M 10 how the cd.
ItOr.al rooms should be- run. and there
never was an editorial room that didn /
regard the men In the business Office rs
q set Of asses. aud felt satisfied that they
could do Il better themselves. The con-
sequence was that Hodges was kept be-
tween two constant fires OF suggestions
and the remarkable theory became
slowly lnstillei into bis mind. that
through some melancholy fatality NIL
the finest business men In his Office
were writing editorials. and all the best
editors were keeping books. This In
tho course Of time became a settled
conviction. and out Of II grew the idi.
otic proceeding that termlnite ted In our
ruin.
"One morning Hodges called us all
into his room and made complete
switch. lie stuck every mothers son
oi rs writers into the counting.room
and turned all the other outfit loose ON
our desks The city editor was dis
solute character named Bill Mills. lie
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