Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-01
AN EDIToRs rRIBULArIoNs.
His Paper Driven Out by Sewing Society
News Mongers.

News Mongers.
Raukeen N tFIa.) Cor. Berkley IS. CO. Gazette.
Coming through Georgia middle-aged
man boarded the train at piney woods
town. He had free pass and a famished
look; and l spotted him for journalist.
That one touch OF nature that makes the
whole profession cheeky, soon brought us
together and set us TO exchanging CONT
dences, like amateur sweethearts. NV
new friend and brother said in the old ia
miliar Georgia dialect: II am dead broke,
and don't know where in the devil I'll
make my next raise. Was You ever that
wayg" Ny soft blue eyes gazed retro
spectively out of the car window, and l
was mute. The strapped editor continu-
ed, "You are trying to 'rickolict' when
you were busted likeI am now, i guess"
heaved a sigh, and told him | was 'tryin'
to 'rickOlict,'" when wasn't. Then the
strapped editor said: "COmpettion is
what floored me. 1 tell you when any
thing is started in a country town that
can give news to the public faster aud
iresher than newspaper, the editor of
that paper has got TO move on or there's
stealin' or beggin' ahead ohm sure"
began to open my eyes. The idea OF a
new invention supplanting the printing
press unnerved me little; and | began
quizzing him after q fashion that might
be excusable In a man who had wandered
into printing Office and swallowed a
peck of fnJerr0gati0n points. FINALLY he
explained. "Ohi il amt no new inven-
ton. IL was one OF these burned sewing
societies that foored me. Nine wrinkled
up widows, two old maids, and a couple
OF married women started a sewing So
ciety in my town. ID met the day before
my paper was issued every week,
aud when the paper came out
the subscribers found that my
freshest news was stale. Why l got on
To a scandal in thetowR thr weeks ago,
and me and my printer thought nobody
knew it but Us and the guilty parties.
There was no way for anybody else To find
it out. We set uD and worked all night
u get the paper cut day ahead for fear
it would leak out before we published It.
Well, sir, the sewing society met in the
morning, and tue paper came out in the
evening. And l hope l may be hung if
that scandal WASN'T known all over town
and five miles in the country before II
O'clock. The paper didn't have it all,
either. That hacked me. l got reckless
and almost gave away my outfit. tell
you country newspaper Is a great in
$ itution; but we've got to put on steam
and, electric attachments, If we expect to
snatch any laurele in contest with
an old woman's sewing society. These
sOeiei les are breaking into several coun-
try papers in this section. Something has
got to be done. Whati An old woman
one o. these kind that dips snuff and weeps
for the heathen-blamed if one of 'em
can't put her chin on her chest and dream
more news in five minutes than the ocean
cable could spit out in twenty-tOur hours.
They broke me and they ought to be sup
pressed. / get off here. Pm gong to
start a truck patch at this station. It's
lawful to shoot rabbits, but nOtOldwomen.
| can protect my properly now. Good
bye" And he was gone. / give you this
poor fellows experience, so that if they
ever start a sewing society in Mount
Pleasant and ask for your Influence"
you need not be inveigled into letting the
cancels head into your tent.