The Red Cloud chief., 1888-03-30
DAKOTA
How un CnenterPrisin. Editor Lost Ais
HOLD On the Community.


How I'm Unent~rprisin. Editor Lost III
Hold nn the Community.
"Have YOU q newspaper here.'"
asked Of Il man who came over to wher
we were campcd % the edge of Il it'll
Dakota town.
.'Yes. got one: did have two. but tn
other TELLER pulled out last week"
Didn't it pay??"
Nav. he want no goOd-got on
the weakest paper You ever SEEM
What was the trouble with it,"
mo news. or least none to mount {,
any thing. Course. if something biz
happened that he couldn't help seein
he'd git it in. but ev'ry week therc'd bs
y whole lot o spicy things that he'd
keep stills a mouse about. an stick in
u lot o pieces on free trade. or protec-
ton. or mebby sometimes the tariff.
Dat the other MAJ want that style
no BLOWN pieces in his'n. bit all the
spicy an interestin' news hat hap.
pened."
$50 you frozc the long editorial man
man Out9'
Had to do it. I tell you-hc didn't
know enough to pound sand. Wy,
femme tell YOU Il little case: Couple o
months ago l built me 4 new chicken
COOP not = very big un. cause l only
got six hens an a fichtin' r~ooster--but
l.made it very keerfnl an put in two
round roOsts an whitewashed 'em. an
three nests. Figured ON half the hens
restin' an scratchin' while the other
shift was LAWN. an nailed some Stats
= e u box in one corner to shut up the
settlers in an make 'em quit their
monkey business. an fixed her up in
style generally. Pretty soon old Cooper.
this man that's gone. come along an
l called him in an says I: .Jcs' get onto
the new hen. house l been a-buildin.'
That looks fir't-r,te.' say he. Wig
gle it, SAYS l. He wiyyiei it. 1t
pears solid.' says me. 4 claim it's tie
best h%cn-housc in the city, says /.
Wouldn't wonder says he. Then he
walked oil with his heal down. a-ihink-
in. l reckoned. wha: he shoulL say
bout it. Somehow l didn't manage 10
see the other Teller t" tell him bout it.
but Lorly. how do you think it come
Out:3"
Haven't anv idea. How dill it,"
IVY. SIR. l vent over to Hank
Georges an borrowed his copy Of
Cooper's paper sopn's it III out
Hank hada't got aloOk ut it yet himself
an took it home an waded through
it. but not u line bout my hen-coor!
Not II line! Not u word! Didn't say
nothing bout tiny name wasn't in
the paper! went 50 fur ~ to even
read clear through u long piece on Oar
Common School SYSTEM thinkin' meb-
by that he stuck in so netting bout IN:
hcn-house in it sumcwheros. but he
hadn't Well. l was mai. an l think
l had a right to be. l throwed the pa
per down an didn't even take it back
to Hank. Bit next mornin' when l
seer 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 hem
coop biS's u Mexican dollar! 1t read
like this: We hear that Uncle Abner
Doty has jes' completed a large an
convenient hen-hOusc for his fine flock
Of Shanghis. Bramvs. Plymouth Rocks.
an so forth. together with his famous
fightin' rooster. Ben Butler. We have
not yet had tho pleasure Ct samplin'
any Of the eggs laid in this new hem
house. but we know that Uncle Abner
Is not the man tn long forget ye editor
That's the very way he had it. word for
word. nam an all. Je$' soOn's I read
it l went right ont an toll everybody
we couldn't ford to support Old Copper
longer cause he was hur,in' the
town by not mentionin' the improve
ments. and I jes' ken up the talk till
what little business he did have
dropped off an nobndy wouldn't have
nothing to do with him. an he's left.
can see yourself that we couldn't
very well do any thing else after the
way he used me on that hen-house."-
F. H. Cdrruth. IN Chicago Tribune.