The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1888-05-02
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SOME NEWSPAPER BoREs.
A Few ofthe Crosses Which the Aver
age Journalist Has to Bar
Unmurmurin9ly.

also HAS TAR fnbre man MS snare OF
b0res tn endure. His life Is largely
made up Of crossesWf tails kind, which
be 10 oompeliei Il take UP and carry
every day he site a, bis desk. The bore
appears early IN the day, when the
busy newspaper man Is getting c,miort-
ably to work, and Ia quitting 10 his
big iicks;n he comes in later, when the
editor's desk 10 covered with copy, ard
the man IN charge has all he can at
tend to without listening to other mat
tiers; he ''b)bs up ssrensIy" when the
tired journalist 70 attempting to snatch
bis MONDAY lunch in peace; he lutton-
holes his helpless victims up The street,
corners him In the horsecars, runs him
down In the theater lobby, calls on him
in the guise Of friendship, and finally
haunts him in his sleep, until the poor,
WORKOUT worker drops Into q slumber,
with dreams In which all creation
seems to be made up Of bores, which
their never-ending buzz and hum.
Let me enumerate a few of the nuts.
ances.
In the first place, the man who does
not appreciate the fact that every mo-
ment Of u newspaper mans life Is val
liable, and that his legitimate duties
demand his closest attention during all
his hours at bis desk, without un-
necessary distractions, Is bore who
should never be allowed to enter .
newspaper Office. His class, unfortu-
nately, Is a large one, and makes ito
presence uncomfortably felt In every
newspaper Office. He was one Of the
biggest bores known In all the circles
Of newspaperdom.
The man who demands an editorial
notice about something or other because
he had advertised, and that other dis
tinct type, the man who wants notice
because he has not advertised, are both
Of them bores whom every newspaper
will recognize.
The man with grievance, who has
no business 10 newspaper ut all, 10 al
ways sure to show up there, and is one
Of the most persistent bores. He has
suffered an overchage from some dealer.
he has been swindled by street fakir,
or injured in his dealings with some one,
and he invOkes the power Of the press
to redress his r0ne, entirely unmindful
Of the fact that In ninety-nine out Of
every 100 cases OF this kind the public
has no interest whatever, and no paper
could touch them under any circum-
stances. very well remember young
man who came to me once with the
complaint that he had been out witted
IN dicker by man who was sharper
than he was. When I intimAted to
him that 1t was a private affair, aud
that the public would not be interested
In 1t, he fairly boiled with Indignation.
Such people find 1t hard to believe that
public newspapers are not published to
reduce private grievances.
Another bore is man that IL con-
nected with some movement, and as
sumes that because newspaper has
looked upon that movement with edi-
torisi favor. he owns the newspaper.
When such men carry their feeling Of
ownership to the point OF sharply crit.
cising the newspaper because its views
do not tally with theirs In every res
pect, they are entitled to a high place
In the ranks Of boredom.
A peculiar bore is the man who al
ways give you an item with the re-
mark There! That i'll help I'LL up
your paper" To a man who has been
struggling for ten hours ON a stretch to
get twelve columns of news into foI.
columns Of space, this is an exceeding.
ly funny remark.
The man VINO assumes that because
you are = newspaper 'nan you have the
tree run Of all the theaters and that you
are In duty bound to extend all your
privileges to him, because he Is double
and twisted bore, especially when he
insists AZ man once did tn me, that |
should get u railroad pass that would
take us both to Chicago aud return.
He became very Indignant when l re-
fused point black. I. tried to explaiu
why could not do a. he asked, but he
would not be sppea-ed, and went away
an enemy because I would not ut empt
the impossibls. The desire to enter y
theater or ride on railroad free IL al
most universal. 4 cry newsp .per nal
knows that 1t Is constantly cropping
out, and croppin. GU, to-. In qu after.
where one would least expect II. Me
Of ample means will gladly accept
'theater ticket or u railroad PISS. when
they would not more fsel tn, c,.t OF n
pair Of tickets than n BUSINESS msn
would feel the IN M.st ou ~ fbr hi, NJ
teen-cent lunch.
l am reminded of u chsnc. acqu ih'-
snce, who had once Il N. M u new-pa.
per favor aud then came IN -sucn men
always come In afterwar,l and asked
Tor his return letter n p,ss to u neigh
boring city, the regular fare b-In; =
quarter of "a dollsr. That man would
be ashamed to beg, and refused the
quarter l rendered hin. not because hs
didn't want 1t. but bectu.e il wDu Il not
bring him what he did want ~ c,nn-
plimentary pass
Peace Will Reign.
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