Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-06-24
LIES NAILED.
The Doctrine of Homeopathy Applied
to the Country Editors Elections With
Results that Would Startle Hshnemann
Himself


to the Country Editors Elections With
Results that Would startle Hshnemann
Himself.
Detroit Free Pres.
All this talk about the country editor
being poor, hard-up, down-trodden coy
ote is an absurdity which has outlived ita
day. Orpheus G. Kerr or Artemus Ward,
or some of the other pioneer funny fell
lows, sterted the stories about editors TAX
ing wood and hay and vegetables on sub
iptiop, and OF having to live between
bread and cheese, and the public accepted
them rs facts. For years past the country
editor has been fondly supposed to be cry
ing for "more copy" and TO be on his last
sheet of paper and last shilling and pre-
sumo my articles will be great disap-
pointment to the masses.
began life as printers devil" It is
popularity supposed that "the devil''
sweeps out and does other dirty work for a
year or two before promotion. On the
first morning reached the office was
told to take things easy until the "o'd
man" came down. / went over to the
bank for one of the comps" and depes.
tied 81, 600 for him, cleaned up the fore
mans 5000 diamond, and busted off a
plush chair aud opened a box of Henry
Clays for the pressnan, and by that time
the editor came down in his carriage He
ordered his coachman to give me an airing,
and when | returned he benevolently re-
marked
"Well, Henry, you and l are to run the
Gazette. You won't have much to do.
Give me about three columns Of crispy
editorial per week, and if you want to dash
off poem or a sketch, 90 ahead. Your
salary will be $50 per week for the first six
months, and you will occupy one of the
spare chambers in my residence-the blue
and gold one"
He had q residence valued at Sl25 900,
filled with the richest of furniture. His
wife thought nothing of giving a wash
woman silk dress that cost $500 and had
splash of mud on it. No tramp went
away with less than $50 in cash. Their
ice cream for one season cost 81 426. IS
aud they were astonished at the smallness
of the bill. One OF the rooms was known
as "the coupon room" A young mar
with very delicate complexion spent eight
hours per day the year round in this room
shearing off coupons from bonds, and from
Nov. to Dec. 81 he had to have two as
sistants.
While the bona fide circulation of thu
Gazette was close on to 200. 900, the editor
kept the figures at / 400 in order to avoid
rush of patronage. He paid six of the
largest merchants in the city $1,000 pei
year each not to advertise with Us, az theil
advertising would make extra work for thu
compositors. What advertising we did d.
was very heightened, and was charged fol
at the rate of 81 per word. The salaries
paid the employees were not as large as II
some offices, because we could not afford
it, but every one who had been on TIT
Gazette two years had saved sufficient
money to buy house and lot and hors'
and carriage.
During my 10 years in the Office, neve
knew us to be hard up but once. The pre-
prietor bought gold mine in California, I
coffee plantation in Brazil and railroad IL
New Eogland at about the same time, ant
csrelessly made out the papers so that VI
had to raise about 5000. 900 in one day
We raised it, but had to chip in Is cent
from my private finances to make up tn
sum. 1t was only week later that tn
wife of the proprietor paid $4,000 in casl
for blue faced sunflower for a corner o