The Forrest City times., 1890-11-15
uood Tlmes Pansed Away.

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 "Thers was n time." said the edit. or. publisher, and proprietor of the Uniontown Banner and American Watch Tower, "when my country subscribers brought in apples. pota. toes, turnips, carrots, squashes. eggs,
 and lots of other stuff as free gifts to the editor, and when set aside the second column Of the third page for notices that Farmer Smith and so forth had laid on our table SO and so, for which he would I,le ase accept our thanks. It has been three years since even tomato was. brought in- to the ofiice."
 What has brought about this changer"
 "The daily papers. They have heaped ridicuel on the good old GUS tom until they have given it it's death-blow. Aud there's another thing. Up to four or five years ago some of my subscribers were certain to put from $2OO to $500 in the rag
 bag for safe-keeping and then sell the bag to the peddler without remem- bering the money. could always count on ct least two items of this sort every year, but they are gone forever now"
 And do you blame the dailies for thls also?"
 "I do. They poked fun at and henped ridicule on the farmer until
 he felt obliged to deposit his money in the bank. Don't you reme m Der those good old days. when the wife "a. sed to put $100 in the parlor stove for sate-keeping, and her husband nsed to build . fire without her knowleo. 'e'
 "Yes.
 "Well it'. fully four years since have had surh case. The daily papers are to b,. anne for it. There was time when C. ,u'd count on n straight column n week under the head ot Terrible Aceident--Another Farmer Dragged to Death The farmer had wsy, you know, of hitching the lines .r1'und his body when he was breaking q colt or ty- ing the rope to his arn' when leading n fractious horse to water. He doesn't do it any more, The daily papers have had so many items head ed Another Idiot Gone 10 His Re ward or Another Fool Farmer Heard From that the pra ctice is dead"
 ''Yes, l know"
 "And could, in those good old times, regularly count on what was known as the pitcbfork accident. 1 Why, l used to keep the item in type l on the standing-galley and simply | change names and dates. You re- how it used to run? Fnr. mer, or his son, or hired man | stacking hay or straw and then slid. i, ing down on the fork. 1t was some in, es n haystack and sometimes a ,nsm,,w, but they always managed o bit th..' fork when they slid down. That fat take has gone with the others, and the 1ailies are to blame. "
 Ut seems sad"
 'It is sad. You know how we used o mnks up the editorial page? Ned ut q leader from the Sun. Chicago Times, Cincinnuti Enquirer, or Buf alo Courier and lead her rig Int out imply saying as preface: That lb!e and well l-conducted journal, the
 -, says had to drop that style hree years ago. The dailies began o kick and my subscribers to fine ault. Many a time I have shenred ut four columns of editorial in less han ten minutes. and it makes my ,eart ache to realize that can lever, no never. do so any more. )ne of the saddest changes, however, 8 the last"
 What is that?"
 Forcing us to dropthe We, which vas so long the power behind the hrone. You can look back to wheS We called into Browns grocery; vhen We took run into the coun. ry the other day: when We dic hus and so and the other thing, and sere tine biggest man in town. All ,one now--all gone with the other ,erquisites and privileges. Why, ,nly last week when chucked in hree columns of dead ads to !ill up n the fourth page. halt dozen sub cribers came in and complained oi ] lack of reading matter! It's hange--a great change. and am ,fraid some of us will die trying to ret used to it."-New York Sun.