Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20
Newspaper Life.

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MUST know everything, but he mist be
very careful not to say too much. He
must mention everything, but be very
careful how. He must boom the town
all the time, but must not say too much
or the Country people will be Jealous.
If he fails to boom the town every
week some chump who never did pat
rohize him will go around telling how
the paper is not doing its duty. On the
other hand, it is the business Of anews-
paper to work for those who patronize
it most. A newspaper will work years
for the benefit of its readers, and if it
happens to express some opinion not
in accordance with everybodS's views,
some mar who does not take the paper,
but borrows it of a neighbor, will drop
in some day and give the editor a little
friendly advice as how to run it. Pa
pers make lots of men great by adver-
tislng them, but about nine times out
of ten these men imagine their great
ness is in themselves, and think the
newspaper man ought to be satisfied
with the privilege Of publishing the
name of so illustrious a mortal. If a
paper got paid for the pufffs they give.
politicians and People who never turn
their hands over to return the compli-
ment, at Che samie price they get Tor ad-
vertisins busin>es IS men, their ever1ast~
ing fortune would be insured. Papers
will boom their. towns and puff individ-
u:als, and when times get a little hard
the first thing they do to retrench ex-
penses IN is the newspaper. They will
spend ten times as much on something
that does not do the town or Individual
any good and stop paying a cent toward
something that is continually striving
to build up their interests. The news
paper man is supposed by many to be.
public property; to have no. feelings
and no appetite; to want no clothes; to
be satisfied with a ticket to show now
and then; to do everything for nothing
and board himself.-Ex.
New York Tribune: Mrs. Lucille
Yseult Dudley, O'Donovan Rossa's as
sailant has had an offer of marriage.
1t was contained in the following let
ter, which she received yesterday:
Postofice, Twenty-eighth street and.
Third avenue, New York, Feb. 2f1a, 1885.
Yesu1t Dudley: !. am delighted
to hear at you daily through the coli
umns Of the pAtpers. I'h0pe one day to
have the pleasure Of your acquaintance.
Accept my deepest sympathy for YOU
while imprisoned in those gloomy:
walls. But, as you are a brave woman,
I4have NOT the least doubt but your pa
thence Will be equivalent. Now pardon
me, Miss Dudley, as a stranger .(whose.
face you have not seem when 1 state
that YOU have in me an ardent lover
and admirer of your brave, actions,
Should you get your liberty and con-
template marriage, Ioffsr you my hand
and heart. | Sm a widower; Young,
quiet, end, excluding self-fattery. good
looking, no family, hold agood, 'perma-
nent situation. BY your description,
etc, YOU suit me. l am a lover of he
lroes, and I trust and most feryently
hope you obtain your liberty, for your
own sake as well as mine. Yours till
DEATH HERBERT F. REARDoN.
Mrs. Dudley replied to this effect:
Sir: Your letter duly received. You
would not suit me. 1 have 40 desire
to abdicate my present, title as "gueen
of cranks" in favor of that of "queen
consert" of jackasses; neither is, it Gus
tomary,in my country for men to. seek
"heroes" IA marriage. Yours truly,
h, -. LUCILLE YsEULT DUDLEY.