St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-08-18
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All this talk about the country, editor
being a poor. hart-up, dOwn-tr9dden
coyote b IN absnrdity wh1Ch NJ Sut
lived its day. .Orphcus C. Kerr or Ar
temus Ward. or some Of the other
pioneer funny fellows, started the sto-
ries about editors taking wood and hay
and vegetables On subscription, and OF
having to live between bread and
cheese. and the public accept
ed them rs facts. For years past
the country editor has been fondly
supposed to be crying for ''mOre copy"
and to be on his last sheet Of paper and
last shilling. and presume my article
will be = great disappointment to the
masses. ~
/ began life as q printers devil" il
Is popularity supposed that 1.-The devil'
sweeps out and does other dirty work
for year or two before promotion On
the first morning / reached the office !
was told to take things easy till. the
.'old man" came down. Invent over to
the bank for one of the ''cOmps
and deposited 1000 for him, cleaned
up the foreman's $500 diamond. and
busted of plush chair and opened a
box of Henry Clays for the pressman.
and by that time the editor came down
In his carriage. He ordered his cOscA-
man to give me nm airing, ard when ]
returned he benevolently observed:
..Well. Henry, you and I are 10 run
the Gazette. You won't have much ~
do. Give me about three columns Oi
erispy editorial per week, and if you
want to dash of . poem or sketch, 60
ahead. Your salary will be $50 Pa
week for the first six months. and you
will occupy one OF the spare chambers
in my residence blue and gold
one" -st ..r n
He had a residence valued at $685.
600. filed with the richest Of furniture.
His wife thought nothing Of giving
washerwOman silk dress which cost
$500 and had splash of mud on it. No
tramp went away with less than 80 In
cash. Their ice-cream for one season
cost 81 .426. IS, and they were astonished
at the smallness Of the bill One of the
rooms was known as 1.-THE coupon
room" A young man with very deli
cate complexion spent eight hOurs per
day the year round in this room shear
ing of coupons from bonds, and from
November l to December 81 he had to
have two assistants. -
While the bona fide circulation of the
Gazette was close on to 20O, 900, the ed
itOr kept the figures at 1,4OO in order
to avoid rush Of patronage. He paid
six Of the largest merchants in the city
g, 900 per year each not to advertise
with us. as their advertising would
make extra work for the competitors.
What advertising we did do was very
high-tOned, and was charged for at the
rate OF 81 per word. The salaries paid
TO employees were not as large as IN
some Offices, because we could not af,
ford it. but every one who had been on
the Gazette two years had saved SUM-
cient money to buy house and lot and
horse and carriage. ., szrs ss-r
During my ten years in the Olkice ]
never knew us to be hard up but once.
The proprietor bought . gold mine in
California, coffee plantation in Brazil
and railroad in New Englandat about
the same time, and .carelessly made out
the papers SO that we had to raise about
t3.OOO.OOO in ane day. We raised it,
but had to chip in fifteen cents from
my private finances to make up the
sum. II was only week later that the
wife Of the proprietor paid 5000 in
cash for blue-faced sunnoweF: for .
corner Of the back yard. and the only
remark made by her husband ~ he
learned Of the purchase was:
"Why. my dear, you should have
taken pair Of them At I'll .OO0.ra.- ut
In the seventh year Of my. stay sthA
Gazette changed hands. There was the
usual notice Of sheriff q sale, and Of the
plant being bid in by n young and en-
terprising man who would seek TO make
il popular local organ, ETC., but that
was all tar. The proprietor sold out to
open a chain o! National banks extend
Ing from Portland to Galveston. and to
put Ave new lines Of ocean steamers into
operation. ! can remember the day h6
left the town. / was called upon 70 $50
his wifc's jcwelry 70 the special car
chartered for it. There were seven
large dry goods boxes fall. and peck
or 20 Of diamonds which could MOI be
crowded in was brought along in . COZ
fee sack.-Detroi Free Press.
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