The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1889-07-12
THE COUNTRY EDITOR.
A City Papers Description Partly True
and Partly Not.

Chicago Herald.
There must be a place Of future
rewards, otherwise the publisher
of country newspaper would be
done in an injustice. The country
editor can get INTO more scrapes
without meaning TO do it, and can
get out of them without knowing
how he did it, than any one now
known 10 fame. He can get up
earlier in The morning and stay up
later at night I; he can give more
free show advertising for the priv.
ilege OF being called deadhead
when he goes to see how hard he
has lied, and he can pay out more
money for running expenses ana.
get less returns In available cash
than anybody not a magician.
The editor of country paper
can keep the press waiting longer
10 pei in four line advertisement
tor some man who intends embark
ing in the business of hedge trim
ming, aud yet start the press In
better time TO catch the train run
nlng to supply four subscribers IN
Stump Town, than any other man
on earth, unless it be The editor OF
some other country paper. he eau
wear a hat longer and coat short
er than most people, and he has to
do this in order TO keep an adYer-
tiser who wants to pay In goods.
He can go all summer without shin
ing his shoes, and he is expected to
do so or be called "Stuck up" by
the people who edit his torch OF
progress for mm. He can bear with
meekness the assaults of The col
lecior of bills, the raids of the
peddler of books, the charge CT
ihe patent medicine man from the
city and the visits from the cashier
who holds his acceptance
He can stand it 10 be cursed for
his unclassified idiocy by every
magnaie in the town, and then,
when his slanderers die, can write
elegies like ',jewels, five words
long, that on the stretched torefin
ger of all time sparkle forever"
He can do all this and raise a big
family, each year seeing the second
boy Incased in the trousers the frst
has outgrOwn; each year seeing
the girls go to meeting in a last
summers hat because it is cheaper
than when the fashion was young.
And when the editor has tried tor
The last time 10 make 81 keep the
promise made for three, he can die
as easily and be buried as cheaply
and forgotten as quickly, as any
vagrant that ever craved drink.
SOME OF HIS TRIALS.
When the country editor washes
The roller on Saturday night and
locks the Office door by setting 8
box OF plates against it he Is the
most thankful of morlals. He il
glad 10 be alive; gladhe got through
a week when he hardly expected
to; glad things have been no worse
than they were, and glad To iool
forward to a whole day of idleness
Yet he must 90 to church, for th'
sewing circle will not consider pro
| per for a man TO conduct that level
of enlightenment-the press-un
4 less he has the appearance OF pleiy
But if he goes TO hear the Metho
dist minister The Bsplists say ne Il
partial. He is expected TO contrt
butte good hard cash to every
scheme projected by the brethren
and sisters, clerical or Law, IN or oul
| Of the church, and then he car
boom the barefaced fraud "as
matter Of news.n Sunday night
when he lays away his boiled shir
fornext Lords day, he feels The ap
proach Of Monday with a sort 0
dread.