Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-01-02
HEcouNfRYsED1foRs
some Of His Trials in. Life-The
Dakota Bows.
p. DOMAIN IN New York Journalist.
One more unfortunate,
Needless of evil,
Rashly iinpOrtunsts,
l,nn 70 Che d.vSl

P. DOMAIN IN New York Jouraalist.
One more unfortunate.
Needless of evil,
Rsshly iinportunsts,
Gone 70 the devil.
Why any man, sane or insane, with a
sound body and a chance to cultivate
his neighbours potato patch and hen
roost after night, should ever want to
be a country editor, is more than the
wisest punditscan tell. That he should
aspire to be u great civ journalist, with
nothing 10 do bu loaf around amid all
the splendors Of IN oriental pasha's
quarters, in a velvet-carpeted, satin di-
vaned official boudoi1; reclining in
observation-disclosures easy chairs, with
his dainty patent leather, boot heels
cooked up on marble mantels, and
smoking straight twenty-five cent.apiece
%tin-foil wrapped cigars, while brainy
and brawny hirelings do all the work,
is explainable on some rational
grounds. But why he should desire,
why he should be willing. to be a pro.
vincial editor, a rural rooster of the
press, is a conundrum that stumps one
as plump as a sumac grub does u sore
toe, or a a common:sense question
does the average nincompoop known
as an American statesman. The war
cry Of every fellow claiming to be
three removes from idiocy should be:
As for me, give me liberty from such
newspaperial thraldom, or give me a
respectable death, with an undistorted
corpse, a ten-carriage funeral. and q
good-lookihg girl to kiss me for my
mother.in-law
A country editor' Everybody's
pecking-block. scapegoat and sway
backed pack.mule. Ten thousand
times one-millionth rather let one be a
%bootblaek, chimney sweep, penitentiary
bird, or congressional delegate be mud
clerk on a coal barge, deck hand in a
tripe factory, engineer Of a one-donkey-
power canal boat, dairy maid with an
aged OK and two he goats as the whole
stock in trade, or a servant girl in a
poor.house or an orphan asylum be q
stock gambler, railroad director, presi-
dent Of a sausage machine, rag vender,
charcoal bawler, governor. or darkey
preacher with a battered stovcpipe hat;
be- anything, everything, but a rural
editor. a provincial journalist.
And yet there are victims, solf-
doomed, ever ready to sacrifice them
selves on the ink-smeared altar Of end,
less and thankless drudgery. Scores
Of them are constantly stepping tor
ward and Offering their trousergables
to the public boot toe in every part OF
the country, bat especially in Dakota,
This grand neutrality-suspicious. in it,
territorial swaddling clothes than halt
the tull-aedged states Of the Union
sprouts newspapers and new editors as
proliically as it does everything else
worth growing, and some things moi
worth it. In 1880 there were but nine
daily and thirty-6ve weekly papers il
all Dakota. To-day there are owe,
three hundred, more than fifty of then
dailies, an increase of nearly eigh'
hundred per cent. in five years. The,
spring ~ like mushrooms, in a night
and are ~ vigorous in appearance a.
young ce,tars of Lebanon, or frisk,
journalistic bulls Of B Ishan in higl
grass. Though their English, 0 anc
then, falls slightly below the classic
standard Of the Sun, (which shines 70
ALL" the tall-towered Tribune or tn,
heightened Times, they are far ahead
geographically, %e'lit,rially, news
gatherativeiy and boomeris ically, o
papers 4 hundred years old IN many O
the big towns of other regions; and tn
ame Of Edwards Of the Fargo Argus
Lounsberrv and Jewell Of the Bismarcl
Tribune. Winship OF the Grand Fork
Herald, Murphy Of the Grand Fork
Piaindealer, Hansbrough of the Devil
Lake ISTER-OcEAS, Mcclure of tn
jamestown Alert, Burke Of the James
town Capital, Bowen and Kingsbury o
the Yankton Press and Dakotan. Cald
well and Bliss Of the Sioux Falls Press
Miller of the Pierre Signal. Warner Q
the Deadwood Times, Merrick and Wit
beck Of the Deadwood Pioneer, Gossag
of the Black Hills Journal, and Drak
of the Aberdeen Pioneer, are beconin
household words throughput the teri
tory and the whole northwest.
am satisfied the Journalist will .joi
me in wishing each and every N c
the nearly FIVE hundred enterprisin
Dakotan editors far more luck tina
most men find in their line Of lif2. AZ,
trusting that they may escape the ra
man and the buzzards in this worlr
and the printers devil in the Next.
Mans = vApor
Full Of woeS;
starts . paper,
CP he goes.
A Great Discovery.
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