The new North-west., 1889-03-01

turn passes bcfarc tho heads Of tho various
departments, political literary, dramatic, etc.
"What have you2' asks all editor to tho
first reporter who presents himself.
"An interview with Sarah Bernhardt."
"Very good Half a column. And what
have you2" be says, turning to the second.
"a report of John Smith the bankers
case"
Fright. One column. And yous"
II have an account Of the presidents forth
coming journey to tho south"
What have you for us this evenings" says
the editor to Lis correspondent i'll Berlin
''Disrnarck threatens to send in his rcsigna-
ton"
Ono column"
"Bouanger has just received nj ovation ut
Lille y riot is feared in Paris" wires tho
Paris correspondent.
"Captall Send two columns
"A scandal in Rome The Marchioness of
tary"
Good. Where are they Gonef"
No one knows"
"No matter. Send 4 good stirring column
all the same
'Whats-his-nuu,e, the Iinancier, has made
of, ticks the wiro from Chicago
"A column. Send report and start on
gent of the fugitive"
When the telegraph has ceased ticking and
the crowd of reporters have departed, the
chief e>itor like Il slips captain the last to
leave the desk, works OIL. He reads over
everything, sits corrects cuts down, adds
to, puts all in order, and towards . O'Clock in
tho morning gives the order to print, and
goes home.
But, once more all thisis nothing. 1t is in
the Sundays issue that you have the crown
jns feat Of journalistic thirty or
thirty-tWo pages Of kilograms articles, essays
on politics, lhc drama, literature, pictures.
the fashions, anecdotes, bons mots, inter
views, stories for children, poetry, biogra-
plies, chats OH sccnce-the whole illustrated
with portraits sketches of interesting places
mentioned in tho text, caricaturcs, etc. etc
Al! this for the sum Of three cents
Every little town Of thousand to fifteen
hundred inhabitants las itstwo newspapers,
one Democratic, the other Republican. For
lively renCiins, take up these papers during
tho electoral struggle that terminates With
tho installation Of new president ut the
White House The names of some of them
will suffice to give you an idea of the style Of
the contents; very fayorite names are The
ParalYzer The hustlcr, The Cyclone, The
Prairie Dog, The Bazoo, The Lucifer, The
Bundle Of Sticks, The Thunderer, Tho Earth
quake. s:ssv and read a copy of the sheet
which rcjoiced in the name of Bundle Of
Sticks, The first article contained advice to
ascertain Joseph Muller, who, instead Of
working, had taken up street preaching and
house TO ho,se prayer we give Joseph
Muller u fortnight to lind soma honorable
employment If at the end Of that time he
is still leading an idle life we will find an ex,
allied position for him" Tho joke makes one
Ghutider when one thinks that, if Joseph
should turn deaf car 10 the warning, he i
quite sure to bc hung By bis townsulen to tho
highest branch Of some tree in the town.
The characteristic of new societies is freedom
Of speech as we'll rs of action read in some
IhuEderei tho following lines about the edi
tor Of The Lightning, the other newspaper OF
the t9vn; '}1e wish to ,lso moderation anG
to keep within the limits of good breeding
We will only go 50 fur rs to say that person
ally he is q sneak, and that as Il journalist III
is q liar and scoundrel." The Lightning
replies in the SANG strain, and the public get;
amusement for tho moderate sum of ono o.
two cents.
During the whole t!llo was in Gi1neric5
Mr.. Pulitzer, proprietor Of The New Iorl
| World, and Mr. Charles A Dana editor O.
Tho Sun, one Of the most accomplished jour
nalists, wcro day after day calling each othel
such names as s'robher," 'iar,a mort
gagged" dirty jew"
Do not, however, draw hasty conclusion
from this do not know Mr. Pulitzer per
sonaily, but have the pleasure Of knowing
| Col Cockeriil, chief editor of Tho World
aud MIR, Dana of The Sun. In private lif
they arc perfect gentlemen and men of grca
talent tMr, Dana is one of tho greatest scLol
| ans in America), III public life they are il
| the swim, they 80 With tho tide AS q stud,
Of English tho polemic of The World an,
The sun was most interesting
Tho American press was divided into tw'
camps tho partsans of Pulitzer and tho par
tisans OF Dana Whenever tho combatnnt
| were driven up for want of fresh epithets .
!
estcd some to them. Here are some congrat
ulntions addressed to Mr, Dana, which
read in Tho St Louis Globe;
1T was from beginning to end The Sun
stilctto against The Worlds meat ax, and, u
is always the case, the meat AK came out sec
ond best Tho literature of invectiye con
taius nothing finer than some Of Tho Sun
attacks On Tho World, and tho literature 0
tho gutter contains nothing more feeble .tha
| Tho Worlds defense Tho Sun dealt GU
| pl,lssic acid by tho drop, and Tho World re
| piled with rough on rats by the pound. Til
| ilatulent anger Of Pulitzer was completel
overwhelmed by tho concentrated venom q
! Dana"
If 4 wero asked to 1lamo tho most u,uusn
:.apers published in tho United States,
| should not hesitate to award tho palm to Th
| Detroit FREQ Press and The Omaha Worl.
in these two, American humor reveals itsel
in ell its spontaneous gayety, and their dro
lcrits nre reproduced from New York oSa
Francisco, from Montreal to Now Orleans.