Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-02-02

'.No matter. Esed good stirring cosumn
IN the sams."
"whAts-hisoams, the Anancisr, has made
o." ticks the wire from Ckicago
"A column. Send report and start On
scent Of the fugitive"
! Whom tho telegraph has ccssed ticking end
tho crowd Of reporters have departed, IL
chief editor, like ships captain, tho last 10
leave the desk, works on. He reads ovsR
everything, sits, corrects, cuts down, adds
to, puts all in order, and towards O'Clock n
the morning gives the order 10 print, end
goes home.
But, once more, all this Is nothing. Il b IN
the Sundays issue that you have the crown
ing feat of journalistic enterprise-thirty O.
thirty.two pages Of kilograms, articles, essays
on politics, the drama, literature, pictures,
tho fashions; anecdotes, bons mott, inta-
views, stories for children, poetry, biogra-
phies, chats on scicnce-the whole illustrated
with portraits, sketches Of interesting places
mentioned in the text, caricatures, etc., etc.
All this for the sum OF three centa
Every little town Of thousand to fifteen
hundred inhabitants has its two newypapera
ono Democratic, the other Republican. For
lively reading, take up these papers during
the electoral struggle that terminates with
the installation Of q new president at tho
White House Tho names Of some Of them
will suffice to give you an idea Of the style Of
the contents; very favorite names arc Tho
Paralyner, Tho Rustler, Tho Cyclone, The
Prairie Dog, Tho Bazoo, Tho Lucifer, Tho
Bundle of Sticks The Thunderer, The Earth
quake saw and read copy Of the sheet
which rejoiced In the namo Of Bundle Of
Sticks. The first article contaiped advice to
q certain Joseph Muller, who, instead Of
working, had taken up street preaching and
house to house prayer: "Wc give Joseph
Muller o fortnight to find some honorable
employment II at tho end Of that time he
Is still leading an idle life, we will find an ex
alted position for him." The joke makes one
shudder when ono thinks that, II Joseph
should turn o deaf ear to the warning, he Is
quite sure to be hung by his townsmen to the
highest branch of some tree in the town.
Tho characteristic of now societies is freedom
Of speech as well as Of action. read. in some
Thunderer the following lines about tho edi-
tor Of The Lightning, tho other newspaper Of
the town; "Wo wish to use moderation and
to keep within the limits Of good breeding.
We will only go SO far as to say that person
ally he is q sneak, and that as journalist he
is a liar and o scoundrel" The Lightning
replies In the samo strain, and tho public gets
. amusement for tho moderate sum of one or
two cents.
During tho whole time ] was in America
Mr.. Pulitzer, proprietor Of The New York
World, and Mr.. Charles A Dana, editor of
The Sun, one Of the most accomplished jour-
nalists, were day after day calling each other
such names as ''robber," 'liar," mort
gagged" "dirty jew"
Do not, however, draw hasty conclusions
from this. I do not know Mr.. Pulitzer per-
sonally, but have tho pleasure Of knowing
Col Cockerill, chief editor Of The World,
and Mr.. Dana, Of The Sun. In private life
they arc perfect gentlemen and men Of great
talent (Mr. Dana is one Of the greatest schol-
ars in America). In public lifo they are In
the swim, they go with tho tide. As study
Of English tho polemic OF Tho World and
Tho Sun was most interesting.
Tho American press was divided into two
camps, the partisans Of Pulitzer and the par
tlSanS OF LANA. neneVer tne comD0tantS
wero driven up for want of fresh epthets of
the requisite strength, their supporters sug.
ested some to them. Hero are some congrat-
ulations, addressed to Mr.. Dana, which I
read in The st. Louis Globe:
sit was from beginning to end Tho Suns
stiletto against Tho Worlds meat ak, and, a.
is always tho case, the meat Ak came out sec.
ond best. Tho literature Of invectivo con-
tains nothing finer than some Of The Suns
attacks on The World, and the literature Of
the gutter contains nothing moro feeble than
The Worlds defense. Tho Sun dealt out
prussic acid by the drop, and Tho World re-
piled with rough on rats by tho pound. The
Gatulent anger Of Pulitzer was completely
overwhelmed by the concentrated venom Of
Dana"
If were asked to name the most amusing
papers published in tho United States,
should not hesitate to award the palm to The
Detroit Free Press and The Omaha World /;
In these two American humor reveals itself
in all its spontaneous gaycty, and their drol.
lories arc Reproduced from New York to San
Francisco, from Montreal to Now Orleans
ITO be continued ON Monday