The Springdale news., 1888-09-28
CHAPTER II. THE NEW EDITORS TRIALs-A MYSTERIOUS STBSCRIRER.

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 Allen Gray had done all that under the circumstances could be done to make the first issue of the Weste,u RspHbijc bright, that an editors trials were not all before the issue of his paper. Toby, the carrier, went out to deliver the paper to the people ln the immediate vicinity of the office. He was as faithful il the performance of his duty as the average carrier on his first trip. but he had hot returned half an hour before Mr. Scott, another capitalist i'll the town, who had given five dollars to have the paper established, and in addition sub- scribed for one copy burst into the office, his face dark as q thunder-cloud. In d voice of repressed anger he cried:
 Why didn't you send me d paper! Your confounded boy went right by my store an never said turkey. Ii this is the way I'm to be treated l want my money back. v
 Allen, q llttle confused at the angry mer- chant, tried to mOllify him, and hoped 1t would never occur again.
 its his first trip MT. Scott; 1 assure you he will learn better soon. The boy oyer looked you"
 Humph! overlooked me, did he. I sup pose I'm an insignificant sort of feller to be overlooked by ragged, bare-footed, stub-toed printers devil, am I?n
 Allen learned the folly of telling men they had been forgotten. One does not wish to seem so unimportant as to be for gotten, and to forget one is at best lame excuse. Allen assured the merchant it should never occur again, gave him two copies and promised him a personal men tion Tn his next issue. The new editor was in the midstof an article when Mr. Cross, the produce and grocery man, came i'll with paper in his hand and fury in his eyes.
 :" See here,n he roared, in a voice like an angry bull, .you ve made thunderin blum der in our ad."
 What is it."
 Don't you see you've spelt eggs with two g's.n said the baellwoods merchant.
 Well, isn't that correct.n
 '.No, it's not. If you don't know how to i spell you'd better quit tryin' to run news paper l looked at a label which came on one O my boxes from St. Louis, and eggs was spelt with one 'g.' "
 "The labelwas wrong; here is the way Webster spells it." And Allen turned to his dictionary. The grocer stood scratching his head and swore that either Webster or the man who made out the label was wrong.
 That ain't all neither, the ads wrong" he added
 In what respect3 Let me see the adver- tisemeut,' said Allen. almost out of patience. He took the paper ant read: '1hs At9heat Drires paid Jor eQgs, butte aud poultry ~ hs cheap gre cf,B storeo of Gross BfothefS' What is wrong about that:'
 . don want no poultry.n
 /" You certainly said SO"
 'I jest wanted to buy chicllens.n
 "Well, are not chickens poultry."
 "O' course they are, but poultry means more IL means geese an ducks an turkeys an plgeo2s. 1 only want chickens Be sides, you had the ad way down there in q corner whore no un Il ever see it. Can | you put it in the center O the first page!'
 No il would destroy the beauty of that page" said the editor, but 1 will change 1t next week to suit yoa and send you proof l of 1t; your ad shall have q good position.
 It would be dit1icultto say whether Allen was most amused OF disgusted at the igno- rance of some of these backwoods business men. Ere long he thought he began to see some of the causes of the downfall of Fur l ley's Point
 Again the editor was busy with hts article, when the floor opened once more. and an old farmer wearing a broad-brimmed bat, entered the office.
 ITO BE coNTINIE1l.