The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-08-16
NEWSPAPERS SORES.
A rev Of the Crosses which the Avers
Journalist Has 10 Bear.

a rev Of the Crosses which the Average
journalist Has 10 Bear.
No one who has had the least experi-
enoe in newspaper Office will dispute
me when say that the journalist also
has far more than his share Of bores
to endure. His life Is largely made
up Of crosses Of this kind. which he Is
compelled to take up and carry every
day he sits at his desk. Tho bore APP
pears early in tho day. when the busy
Newspaper man is getting comfortably
to work, and Is putting in his big
licks;" he comes in later, when tho
editors desk Is covered with copy,
and the man in change has all he can
attend to without listening TO other
matters; he hobs up sorencly" when
the tired journalist Is attempting to
snatch his MONDAY lunch in peace; he
buttonholos his helpless victims upon
the street. corners him in the horse
cars, runs him down in tho theater
lobby. calls on him in tho guiso Of
friendship. and finally haunts him in
his sleep until tho poor. worn-out
worker drops into a slumber. with
dreams in which all creation seems to
be made up Of bores. with their never
ending buzz and hum Let mo emu
merate . few Of these nuisances.
In the first place. the man who does
not appreciate the fact that every
moment Of news spaper mans life Is
valuable, and that his legitimate du-
tic demand his closest attention dur
ing all his hours at his desk, without
unne distractions, is o bore
who should never be allowed to enter
q newspaper office. H. was one Of the
biggest bores known In all the circles
Of newspaperdom.
The man who demands an editorial
notice about something or other be-
cause ho had adyertiscd, and that
other distinct type. tho man who
wants notice because he has not al.
vertised, are both Of them borcs whom
every newspaper man will recognize.
The man with a grievance. who has
no business in newspaper at all, Is
always sure to show up there. and Is
one Of the most persistent bores. Ho
has suffered an overcharge from some
dealer. he has been swindled by q
street fakir. or injured in his dealings
with some one. and he invokes the
power Of tho press to redress bis
wrong, entirely unmindful OF tho fact
that in ninety -nine out Of every hun.
dred cases of this kind the public has
no interest whatever. and no paper
could touch them under any circum-
stances. I very we'll remember q
young man who came to me Oncc with
q complaint that he had been out-
witted In dicker by man who was
sharper than no was. Whom inti-
mated to him that it was private af-
fair. and that the public would not bo
Interested in It. he fairly boiled with
Indignation. Such paople find 1t hard
to believe that public newspapers arc
not published 10 reduce private griev-
ancea
Another bore Is man who Is con.
nected with some movements. and as-
sumes that because q newspaper has
looked upon that movement with edi-
torial favor no owns tho newspaper
Whom such mon carry their fcoling of
ownership to tho point Of sharply
criticising the newspaper BECAUSE its
views do not tally with theirs in every
respect. they are entitled to high
place in the ranks of boredum.
A peculiar bore Is the man who al
ways gives you an item with tho re-
mark, There! That will help to fill
up your paper" To man who has
been struggling for ten hours on a
stretch to get twelve columns of news
into four columns of space, this has an
exceedingly funny sound. -Stephen O.
Sherman, in Writer.