New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-12
THE YOUNG EDIIOR'S VALEDICTORY
LITTLE FROZEN TRUTH.
r,x,d /,ayrufh In tn, Chfcn1o TribIns.


In 1870 a young man named Lawler came out to
the city II Roaring Spring since extnctl anu stateu
"Tho Roaring spring Examiner lie, i4iio% Ss Inc
good many invisible things, endangered his chances
of salvation a dozen times In every Issue by his dis
regard for the In referring to his fellowctzens
and mado paper generally which they ought ~ nave
appreciated, but didn't lie struggled Tor year ana
being foreclOsed his type and presses as fat, or
a little faster, than tho law allowed Below Is an
extract from vaedctory, he walking out OF town tho
night before 1t appeared and leaving directions for
the boy to put the papers In tho post office noAt
We have worked pretty hard to please the moss
bscks and 1aybawkcrs living in Roaring Spring, but
We referred to tho western Hotel as 'sumptuous
and elegant In all It's appointments, tho same week
We wefo carried out OF It's dinIng-roorn nsensibio
under tho influence OF It's toDth rate Canned goods
We have spoken Of old man Wllkn as our efficient
and scholarly justice Of tho peace while al tho very
time We were writing tho words the old soaker was
under our office drunk and humping his head up
IMPRESSION that no gong Ia bed In sleeping
car moving f,rty miles an hour o., ,.r,ooa
coming hero when know there wero moro chances
that Noah's ark would sail through town than that
ave have howled about the as onlshlng fertility
Of the soil near Roaring Spring In the same ISSUE .,e
man who ever took "The Examiner and paid for 1t
had Just starved out trying to raise hen grass
"we wrote a glowing account OF Visit 10 our our
truth Is that stray COW came out OF the 'front.' door
OF 1t and tried to hook US over tho fence when We
We noticed the cause for pardonable pride which
We had In the fine condition OF our streets inc same
day we had a good pair OF boots pulled OH Dy tho
mud while going TO the post Office
We grew really eloquent over tho splendid OPP
portunlties that exist hero for settlers when we
knew that the only settler who arrived here TINS
summer was promptly run into saloon ana cieaheo
ont OF his money in poker game by Bl huhn'
town clerk and Dan Woody, county commissioner
ave told OF our sparkling blinking water ,S Goo,
and delicious to tho taste when we knew ina. 'n mere
was so much akali In 1t that In washing our TYPO
with 1t 1t had actually eaten the tails on the very
commas pnnctuated the statement with; ..,..u
We spoke Of our winter climate as being clear
and dry rendering 1t quite impossible to feel inc
cold when only month before the doctor nad
ampntatcd two OF our toes where We haa
ly got our foot over rat hoio III tho no'' ~
I'VE found time to write lengthy article on orr
TO purify the air and mako II heat hful' even II wo
were kept pretty busy that week in sorting our
typo, which had been pied by me once belhs dow"
aw av and scattered half the country.
@The week We were sunstruck we wrote poem
on Beautiful Summer and Roaring Spring when
Judge Of Probate Donghcrty had the jimIams and SGT
tbe school house ahre In tho night. We laid 1t TO
tho 'dlaholical work OF some vIsnous uamPs
when Nick DaGcett and his wife tried to poison eacm
paper the Packard family frozc to death In blzzard
and we wept over the fact that consumption shonId
thus enter a family without warning and sweep away
whole household n cyclone killed six and we sobhed
over that fell destroyer. enllcptc MS cuhtracuHu
in tho army ): drinking alks water hurried dozen
to an untlmnly grave and In every cas-. we uowcu
our he All and through sOhs moaned ont: another
good citizen killed In runaway That's the WY
wcve been standing up for Won bn. we are sn,ns 80 ~
sion This IS the last Examiner II IN" re" ro'
natnnr dead beats IN Roaring spring will this oven
ing their eyes through the gathering darkness
they will see tall. bralny young man Formerly en-
gagged I'm tho n~wSDaprr hucinesS In their midst pass
out from them through the gloamlng on tne uo',,
Good bve II Is our earnest hope that we may hot
meet on better shore; We couldn't meet on
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