Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-17
DAKOTA JOURNALISM.
9sw an UnsnterprisIng Editor Lost Bis
Hold the Community.


Hsw an Unsntsrprising Editor Lost ms
Hold on the Community.
Have you q newspaper herew !
asked Of man who came over to where
we were camped on the edge of a little
Dakota town.
Eyes. got one; did have two. but the
other feller pulled out last week
Didn't it payP"
Nav. he want no good-got out
the weakest paper you ever SEEN"
What was the trouble with it?''
'No news, or least none to mount to
any thing. Course. if something big
happened chat he couldn't help seein'
he'd git it in, but ev'ry week there'd be
whole lot O spicy things that he d
keep stills mouse about. an stick in
lot o. pieces on free trade, or protec-
ton, or mebby sometimes the tariff.
Bat the other man want that style
no BLOWN pieces in his'n. but all the
spicy an interestin' news that hap
pened."
$50 you froze the long editorial man
man out?'
Had to do it, tell you--he didn't
know enough to pound sand. Wy,
femme tell you little case: Couple o
months ago built me new chicken
.oop-not a very big un. cause only
got six hens an fightin' rooster--but
made it very keerful an put in tive
round roosts an whitewashed 'em, an
three nests. Figured on half the hens
restin' an scratchin' while the other
shift was layin'. an nailed some Stats
| )yer box in one corner to shut up the
letters in an make EN- quit their
monkey bus ness, an fixed her up in
style generally. Pretty soon old Cooper
his man that's gone. come along an
[ called him in an saysI: 'Jes' get on,'
she new hen house / poem a-buildin
That looks first-rate, says he. Wig
lie it, says l. He wiggled it. II
| pears solid, says he. 4 claim it 5 tht
'esi hen-house in the city, says l.
Wouldn't wonder says he. Then he
walked off with his head down, a think
| n. reckoned. what he should say
bout it. Somehow didn't manage to
ee the other Teller to tell him bout it.
nut Lordy, how do you think it come
,ute''
Haven't any idea. How did it?'
IVY, sir. l wenT over TO Hank
ieorge's an borrowed his copy Of
Cooper's paper soon's it come out
Hank hadn't got alook at it yet himself
an took it home an waded through
it. but not line bout my hen-c0ov!
Not a line! Not a word! Didn't say
nothing bout tiny name wasn't in
the paper! | went so fur as to even
read clear through long piece on Our
| Common School System, thinkin' meb-
by that he stuck in something bout my
| hen-house in it somewheres. but he
hadn't. Well, was mad, an | think
| had right to be. | throwed the pa
per down an didn't even take it back
to Hank. But next mornin' when
seen one of the other feller's papers
down in the store my eyes stuck out so
you could "a hung your hat on 'em.
There it was in his paper bout my hen
coop big's a Mexican dollarl Ii read
like this: We hear that Uncle Abner
| Doty has jes' completed large an
convenient hen-house for his fine flock
If Shanghis, B:amys. Plymouth Rocks
an so forth. together with his famous
| fghtin' rooster. Ben Butler. We have
not yet had the pleasure of samplin'
any of the eggs laid in this new hem
house. but we know that Uncle Abner
is not the man to long forget We editor.
That's the very way he had it, word for
word name an all. Jes' soon's read
it | went right out an told everybody
we couldn't ford to support Old Cooper
no longer cause he was hurtiu' the
/ town by not mentionin' the improve
/ ments, and | jes' KEEP up the talk till
what little business he did have
dropped off an nobody wouldn't have
nothing to do with him. an he's left.
You can see yourself that we couldn'
very we'll do any thing else after the
way he used me on that hen-house. -
| F. II. Cdrruth, in Chicago Tribune