The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-03-28
TUEsDA JuLY 20.

The whole crowd continually kicked
about the new editorial force. They
said they weren't spicy aud sensational
enough, and now ana then they would
write up scme scandalous story they
would uear themselves, generally about
the biggeGt advertisers, and ii the new
managing editor rejected 1t, they would
mark it paid local aud ran it in anyhow.
Thugs were however. III horrible CON
diiiou iu tho editorial room. Whenever
a1y of the staff you'd write anything
they particularly admlred, they would
mark it to 20 in every other dag for a
month, Just rs they used 10 DO with adj
tisements. OF course the public would
become iatigped with these little tHorts
repeated twenty or thirty times and stop
the paper.
They had one of the solicitors on po.
lice coHrt work, and be had habit OF
calling the prisoners aside and saying
This will be a greatthing for you in thp
way OF business. Shall I write you up g
double half display on it for ten dollars?'
In this way beacG1ired the reputation OF
being professional blsekmail,rs. Theil
local articles wers disfgured with busi.
ness illusions that robbsd them Of all
point au | interest. For example, they
would write;
AT noon to-day one of The fine horses
rom Smith & Higgins feed, sale and
livery team. No. 2l9 West Slxlh street
terms IT aaouAble. telephone Boarding
hors's specially, attached to n Hall
pia' o box buggy, elliptic springs, price
$3.50 general depot No. lQ2 Main street,
wuere Mr.. Anderson, the genilemauly
aud cflicient local agent, is to be found
IN bn-l"ess hours ran away with Mrs,
Clara K4ndrick. wife Of William G
| kendrick, proprietor Of the Mnnarcl
Billiard ana Pool rooms, corner ol NJ iii
ilud Nirth street. j, NJ. BruusYick &
Bake tables are supplied with ,h'
choicest brinds of L lors and hest o
imported and dom-slo cigars. Minor,
not pl!p@ed 70 play billiards.
Everybody who casually read th,
article supposed, Of coutsc, that Mrs
kendrIolI had ran away with MIR. An
dprson, and all parties concerned sueC
ns for libel. The first salary day wa
Iiaed over, but on the second Bill Mil
nlortgaged everything in tue Office auc
was still $50 short. Hpweyer, be tool
ihe roll, and said he would inst siel
around the cQrler 10 q fafo BANK aaC
win the oiher fny. None Qf Us henrc
OF him ror four days, when We learne,
that he gas in the hospital ravinl
maniac, With de!iriRm tlemens. BY tba
time the few papers that were circulniet
people bought simply ont Of morbit
curiosity, and when the Sheriff sooi
atteg closed Us out on two libel judg
ments and $4,000 unpaid bill, apt
threw US penuiless aud homeless. ant
with GMgied regulations. ont into tn
street, ! fell absolutely relieved. Hodges
am glad to say, died eooA after in
IlAd-hruIe, nEl myself aud other memb
ers OF the staff who hnye not psrished o
starvation ere at present in search o
other engqgements.'
| confess that J was amazad and in
teresed. and also that 1 loaned him th
two dollars, with which he disappeared
4 few weeks after ! was narratiug th
matter, as singular story, TO profes
Nional friend in railrord car, when b
rudely Interrupted me with Il guiftw.
"Why, my deer sir" he said betweeI
his roars, "the Posi- is still RAINING AN,
doing well. Rqrbank was thrown on
toy haJitpal druukepness, aud have Il
doubt bnt that lie has negotiated tha
story at Its face value great number 0
times