The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-03-28

cried. "Wuali shall people dare say l
woEe things thai are not my oNn2"
That is EXACTLY the disposition !
should have advised you to make OF the
money" said my husband
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Hodges Theory.
ITS PRACTICAL woRKrNq, As TOLD BY AN
TX MANAGING EpiroR-ED1r R,IN
THE COUNTING ROOM, AND
DOCK KEEPERS IN TIE
EDITORIAL. sANcTUM
THE FINAL
cATAsTR PIE.
When met John 3. Burbank ct the
Onion y pot Al Kansas City. gnd he re-
queoteA the lonp of two dollars l was
surprised and shocked, because when !
had last heard of him lie was the man
aging editor of the - PuT, and
doing yery well. Now lis pants were
irayed out at the bUttcm. bis ancient
Prince Albert cont was scared With
grease and pinned together in the front
and his general aspect was one of dilapi-
cation and distress. He also appeared
to have been drinking. | drew him
aside and ven!ured to ask Low be came
TO G,aye his former pleasGnt and remuu-
eratiHe position,
"The POSE" he replied, in moody
tone Of voice, "has gone up the spout"
rs that possible" l said, in surprise
! 'WLy it had fue crcnlAtiou aud was
doing splendid bI iuess wien I knew
OF it,"
Yes it has gone PIP the spoat,' re-
! pealsd Bnfbauk, Sand gone up, too,
through such a str,nge combination OF
circumstances that doubt whether the ~
we're eyer parAllelel in the History OF
jourualism."
was meek eoough to ask what they
were, aud without break or pause, or a
parlcie Of expression, he tod me the
following renarkable story:
"You know old man Hodges" he said,
"who got the PusF ubont year ago,
didn't kGuw anything about the news.
paper business. He had made all bis
money out OF il saw-miIl, aud bought tie
paper because he thought it was smart
aud genteel to be n professional man.
o. course he Was tull OF crnLky notion,
and peculiar ideas, but we put Up witl
them the best we could and managed t.
get out II preitg good looking paper an.
III Summer time. You see business is
always duh in the bot moulh9 and news
is scarce, bnt ola Hodges didn't know
4 THAI, Rud he began to kick. lie attribut.
ed the shrinking Of The Advertisements
to the poor quality OF the reading ma lel
and cursed both departments regularly
ey ry day.
I TNow, there neyer WAS a newspaper
business Office thai wasn't very forward
about giving advice MS to how The edi
torlul rooms should be rRn, and there
meyer was an editorial room that didn't
reghrd thr men IN the bnsinese flee ?,
II set of as,es, Gud ieit satisfied that they
could do IT better themselves. Tue cou,
sequence was that Hodges was kept be-
tween two CONSTANT frs of suggestion,
aud the remarkable theory becHme slow
ly iusIiled into his MIND, that throug!
some melIpcholy fatality 9ll the Guest
business men ia his {, liice we're writing
editorials, aud all the best editors were
keeping books. This in tue course OF
lime became IL seltlvd conviction, aud ou
OF it grew the idio,ic proceeding tLa
,ermiu4led in orr ruiu.
zone morHing Hodges called us nj
into his room aud made a complet,
switch. He stuck every mothers sou Of
qs writer's ipto the coEnUng.room anC
turned AL the other outfit loose on o.
desks. The CITY editor was II disolut,
character named Bill Mills. He wa
I always head over heels ip debt, but b.
had soEpehow impressed Hodges will
the delusiOn that ho was great finan
cial genius, aud ho was made busines
. manager. The frat thing he did was t.
open up the ledger AMI assign Us all l.
different work, jnst as he used to do il
his local assignment book. Every da.
ne would change us ull around 80 no
a Jody Lad chance 10 become famlllu
= Nitn any department. Meantime h
, bought himsel. diamond pin with on
8 hun iTsd and ll,Y dollars that was in th
= safe:
ale had all the reporters out solicit
4 iug advertisements, but they were so il
i- dependent and impuient about it tha
q they got hardly any atall. They didu
o care though, aud wrote up the few The
G did get in such style that they nevt
Is got any more, aud filled up the spac
/. with free puff, for lager besr saloons an
% such places. When it came 70 eollec
ing. they were afraid to trpst each othel
A. aud all went in body, which mad
,e everybody lheg called on mad. Th
d, 0 ly bothered them a short time though
ri lor there was pothiug to collect, How
2. evtF, they took in several hundred do
y lars t,e arst uip. SUD when they g
II back to the ofaee. started to play rok'
for it, aud kept toe erraud boy Fpnnir