Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1886-06-24
hechancyown, Frederick County, Maryland Thursday June a. 1885,

me your paper gratuitously for a yeal
Allow me to bid you good day, sir
The dreamy eyed man went out as
, softly us sixty days note falls due
and a moment later another style OF
person dropped into the vacant chair
and spoke thus in tones that were
sharp and quick :
I don't thing / shall take your pa
per another year. You are not MAX
ing as egood Il paper as you should
with Your opportunities. You are not
giving your readers enough local mat
ter. Local matter should be the chief
feature of the village paper. Every
thing else should be made to give way
to local matter Give the news of
your own community and let the big
dailes take care of the rest of the
world. And, by the way. if you are
little short of local matter this week,
you might say that l have invented and
patented the most common-scnse churn
that has ever been introduced to the
people of this State I'll be in again
in the course of few weeks, and will
then pay you my subscription for last
year good day
The village editor was just sliding
under the table, a crushed and mental
ly demoralized man, to hide his head
in despair or the waste.basket or both,
when a loud knock at the outer door
brought him from his dreams to his
waking senses.
IIow are you, old fcllow?' cried a
CHEEKY voice, and the Old Subscriber
from up the creek took the the village
editor by the hand with a hearty grasp
and shook pain in the editors should.
er blade. And then the Old Subscriber
from up the creek seated himself in the
vacant chair and merrily spoke thus:
well, old boy, you re just giving us
the very best paper we ever had. A
good story every week, some poetry to
please the women folks, column or
two of fresh humors to make US laugh
and keep our livers running on regular
schedule time, Just about enough of
politics, all the news that is worth a
busy mans time to read, every impor-
tant local event written up in breezy
readable style, and advertisements Of
all the public sales and of the stores
and shops that offer us bargains. Yes,
sir; your paper is good enough for me
worth twice what you ask for it-and
! want to pay you years subscrip ption
for mvse,r, and here are four dollars,
more, for which you may send your
paper to my son ont West, and my
daughter down South, for they both
like to get the news from the old home
and you give them more of it in one
issue Of your paper than | could write
in twenty letters. That's all I've got
to say to-day. Come out and see me
when | begin to make cider, and bring
a jug along if you've got one, and if
you haven't, I've got one to lend you =;
goodbye.
And the old subscriber from up the
creek went out with smile upon his
face that began Just below his left ear
and spread le:surcly about over his
face and then quietly meandered back
to the place of beginning.
The village editor was about to pinch
himself to assure himself that he was
really wide awake, when the cry of
"copy - came to his ears and then he
didn't think it necessary to pinch
himself He only folded up three
crisp two dollar bills and put them in
his pocket with the beautiful thought
that his world in which we live is not
half SO bad world as folks sometimes
dream it is.-Maddletovm (Del) Tran-
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