The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-07-05
THE LONG FELT WANT.
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Nco1N '. u1r0exees oAxtnK fet4sea nf8 experience with youag and struggling daily, move that esAer brethren present relate their owa little history. think is is sometimes relief se unearden the soul ey confession.
 toyed with daily once which was in- ccrporAsed so 6li long felt wan,. did not know it was loaded. Thess was . rival daily that had eeea running swo years and we entered the arena. hoping to win an easy victory over this paper and become q great power in the vest. We made it our business to boom every thing that was bcomahle and to snecr at the lack of enterprise of our adversary. We get specials by mall. press report by slos freight and sho~ed a style ef fear. less enterprise tha, vas the envy andthe admiration of many large metropolitan journals. We thought that our adversary wouldn't las, more than A month afser election. ea, Thanksgiving came and found ;he kse-ssS .S,ssssks, sull on deck. The editor would come and bos. rc~ pm, paper of us and then use IL to call us the slime bedsckcd and pa,tii es- ponen, oi still more hanefal polalsai fAstien We would borrow a font oi hte. ttSA VI &H9 kEtttt uit HtHCt As the waihng toundling, dying tn the peis. onous vaposs of the deadly swamp oi po- ltieai hlth, wherein il had chosen its bed. edited by the bitter foe oi the laundress and Lindley Murray. a man who had evaded justice for forty years. and. no; content with the outrage of all moral sense, had declared war on ,he spelling book
 Thus we kep, up spirited eonses, for a long time Sometimes we couldn't get ous paper out oi the iteish, ofsice. and sometimes he couldn't. ha, VIC would loan each other the last qu,rc ~e had and keep friendly. while through the columns el our respective papers SC spoke oi each other in language which nigh, have been eonssued as Ieproaohful 10 some people 1 u was an exciting time. One day the 1 .SsEaa'ksy would offend asubsonbcr and he would come over to us. and the ness day VIC would un~i,,,ngly ueai on he toes of one Of our great army oi sub scr,bers, and he would go over ;o the enemy.
 The editor of the other pape. ana my self saw that Il vas golng ,o be war os exsetmination. We ground our teeth and our shears and sAiled in \, the end of the first year he had disc has sed hss sevan, girl and my paper owed me 1 SSso salary. At the end af the second year he had blown m h.s nae brick resi- dence and had taken my salary as police justice and thrown i, into the rapaeious ma~ of my little hungry long felt want.
 One day the little, muddy. measly. long suffering features at the Etsaiag \ saH'tst failed 10 appear. We kep, asking the office boy why the Sgssats, didn't come. He didn't know Finally he went to the public ation offee The door was locked. \ map of Dakota vas hung over ore window and q printer towel over the other. The offioe hoy raised the map and s,ele m. The unee tain fight here and there broke m sirag- gling rays through the threadbsie places m the towel, On the desk lay a letter from the advertiser q Colie Eraser in which he offered io take a column m 'he .sgsasete, a year, following pure reading matter and with 1000 lines ot reading notices 10 he strung along through eli
 torials from day to day. in bold iaced type. and in consideration therefor to furnish for two yeArs ,o the editor ot his order hfty bottles of the Colie Eraser at publishers price, delivered on board the cars.
 Everything about the office sho~ed that the work had been going braseiy on
 when the summons came. In facs the summons lay there on the desk among other papers. along with writ of attach
 mens for Szs3.Ss. This shows what a
 hold paper gets on it's subseribers and also what hold ,he substr,bsrs gets on the paper. The sheriff had been a sub soriber to the .>gsssst<v ever since il
 started, but we didn't know hn attach
 mcnt for he paper was 90 great. We won the day. but al ~ha, q sAoIs- ice. The smoke of conflict cleared away ard showed tha. the victory ~as
 no; worthy of the carnage. We had sur. vived but we were not proud. The .sgsas0ker had fought us bfayeiy. and
 nov it's still. cold form lay in state m the
 basemen, Of the chief creditor and the ssual notice of attachment was iAc ked on the door.
 The editor and myself me, oa the io.. lowing day. and he was the more oheer fui of the ,wo. He sad he felt sorry foi
 me. can use what ] ge; hereafter or my family" said he, bat you can [ You wsll feel guilty fl you buy barrel o -four for your own use, knowing that 4
 may imperii the next issue of the paper [ have passed al. that" And he wa, rgh,. The quicker nsan deeides ,e ] cease pu ubiishipg a daily paper where i is no, needed. just simply through 2higk moral sense of duty, the sooner he vii become light-heassed and joyous. paid E. 900 tor tAe privilege ot knowing this and 1 present it to every paid-up sub. i, scriber oi the /,<s Prsss without moae, and without price. 1 don, kno~ yer,
 much, bat if there's anything do know and know it hard and know it with ons
 hand ted behind me. ii is that