The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-05-15

9'is u way you mad be-
come a chum Of his. Not that YOU
ever associated with him intimately,
but he had done you a favor once. and
that gave you a claim on him that no
editor has ever been known to disre-
gard. He couldn't if he wanted to.
you reasoned; it wouldn't be profes.
! sional.
80 when your friend, the city Off.
ciai' asked you to see your friend, the
editor, and make him desist from his
exposures of the frauds in that office
you gladly consented. You didn't
care so much to help him as to show
your power over the man you had OBJ
tanned control of. So you went on the
errand with a light heart and a smirk
OF conscious triumph.
l don't know what occurred in the
editorial room during the interview,
but this much 1 do know. At the club
that night you didn't speak to the ed
itor and the attacks didn't cease. You
were no longer friends. Whyp SIM
ply this, friend G. x, the editor knew
you.
Dear me, how the instances pile up.
Once disguised as Dixie the shrewd
old donkey under the lions s%kin-you
again boosted of your acquaintance
with the editor. Your wife knew his
wife and you met him one evening at
a public reception. That is the way
this introduction was obtained. You
had a bill you wanted to have passed
by the Legislature which would make
you rich at the expense of the tax
payers.
So Mrs. d. gave a dinner and the
editor was a guest. All! there is where
you had him. He ate your dinner,
drank your wine, smoked your cigars
and listened one whole dismal evening
to yourdreary babblo about politics and
other public matters about which you
know nothing, but think you know all.
After this dinner you knew you had
the editor, in the language of the phi
losopher, sin a hole" He had ac-
cepted your hospitality and o you
owned him body and soul. 1t is true,
he didn't give you a deed for his paper
the next day, but this was not ncces-
sary. You owned it all the same.
You called on him one pleasant
winter day and brosehed your scheme.
l wish Stcru were words in the English
language to express your horror and
amazement at the result of your talk.
But l can't find them and l have
looked through two dictionaries and
n set of the encyclopaedia. The ver-
nacular, friend D., is strangely detic-
lent in s. many particulars and some
day we must prevail upon our friend,
the editor, to remedy this defect.
He didn't help your scheme? No,
he didn't. 1t appears he knew you
too.
There is'one more instance and ! am
done. This time you skipped half the
alphabet and chose @ for your name,
but l penetrated your disguise at n
glance. You knew the editor like a
brother, so you said. You had met
him at q banquet, and before the even
ing was over you were OF t~olerably So
ciable terms. The next day you told
every one what a "devilish good fel-
the editor was. | didn't hear
him make any remark about you, but
didn't restrain your ELUSIVE af-
from expressing itself.
A few days later l happened to be in
the editors room when you called
You had told your friends that you
could get any thing you wanted from
editor, and you started out to prove
it by this visit. The editor was busy
when your card came in.
''Q?n reflected the editor as he
glanced at the pasteboard, what sort
Of a looking man is hep
Ozark, tall, wears a beard and
in his left eyc,n replied the
office boy.
''Oh! yes,' answered the editor as he
threw the card into the waste basket.
Tell him l am too busy to see visitors
Have him write what he
wants and mail it to me and call again
'ome time next year"
"Do you know him?' l asked as the
BOY left the room.
know himP / should say did. He
S the inebriated idiot who sat next to
ne at the banquet the other night"
l don't mention these instances to
lurt your feelings, friend x, simply
tell you that while you may know
he editor the acquaintance is often re-
~iprocal. You hnoW him and he knows
'ou.
sabeP-BeWamim Northrop, IN N. Y.