New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-02
HE PRINTED THE FUNERAL CARDS.


. WESTERN EDITOR WHO THINKS THAT TACT
WILL UNITE GoHDIAN KNOTS.
avon men who get out newspapers ~ the East.
lse said "don't know what trais are. o"e "es"
whore I avn running The Dogtown Lar with Tie
hest iob printing establishment In the country we
have problems to meet that are problems vi course
I don't know much about the real genuine newspaper
business I went out there bluff started the
concorp op a sbutr' and have run it ever since on
the same bluff But have tact, ana that IL "hae
is needed by a Dogtown editor. between you ana
me tl,e people out there think that the paper is
wonder and they get the chance they VIII soho
me TO Congress.
ave were speaking Of problems and tact, though
Let me give YOU an example. i am editor business
manager superintendent of the job Office ana every
thing else As said before, don't know much about
any OF these calings but make my little bluff, and
generally pull ont with flying colors
"A little woman came In one day, and asked me II
were the editor. put my pen behind my ear Win
pretty big flourish that she might see for herself sd
answered that was.
".wel' she said, my husband is dead
madame answered politely, for IL is my policy
always to he gracious TO every one. you have my
sincere sympathy. You have come to ask where the
undertaker's shop is. supposeP
".No.' she replied .Tve been TO see him.
sAh,' said /. 4 see. Yon wish Obit-er-a nice
sketch written of your husband. Tho Liar VIII be
deghted-a man Of sterling integrity honorable TO
fault, generous in the extreme-sOncthnS Like that,
ehr
".Ye-e-s.' she said doubtfuly, but What came for
was to about getting some funeral cards. Nou
sec we were lust about at the head OF Dogtown society,"
and want to impress the people Of this place with our
knowledge of society
".Iem, said tlsoughtfuy.
az suppose you know about what want!'
\nrr
some cards lke--er-jus as-alemllkc VIC have in the
East
".Ycs.' she said eagerly that's IT, i suppose you
can get them mp for mot
Certainly, madame The LIAR job printing
Enlistment is complete in every detail
I'D like TO have them this afternoon
"'Of course j said. lin work OF this kind. delicate
and hig-class. and all that, you know We require
more time but II You wait until step into another
department / will consult with my foreman and ask
him to attend to this personally 1 bowed very low
and she tried to drop courtesy TO show her savor
fairc
~The foreman and are the whole OF the establish
ment. lie Is frst-class printer ard general all
round handy man, and between the two of us we run
the
.Jm,' l said, could we set up funeral cards
this afternoonr
Funeral cards What they y
"'Oh. Charles smith died Ills wife presents her
how TO get them out, but guess we can fix 'em
some way, can't wei Get slugs and rules and
well make mourning lines I'll get up the design if
you can set IT,
".All right he said go ahead. We've got forty
three cards left from that lot we made for the
plumber
IL went back TO the widow
Madame ! said, Il happy to say thai with
an extra effort shall be able To accommodate you;
but this class Of work, said before. requires such
skill and that shall be able to furnish YOU only
forty seven cards to-day
".You will have them frst-classl' she quered
anxiously.
"Of the very best l assure you,' 1 answered
graciously
"Then | will call for them at g.
"'Very well, madame.
81 had a long tussle with my brain tissue those
cards. We managed with slugs and rules to get q
black border around the cards and bscl, line down
the centre. Tile card read something like this
Thomas Fisk, act. So ob January IA, 1873. Mrs.
Fisk. relct. al home Thursday, at p.
The foreman wanted to have, in small type, down
in corner The Liar job Printing Establishment
but coaxed him away from the idea. He got
much interested In those cards that he fairly heaved
when lie pic.ed the first one up in his nky fingers
and read off. spelling out sowsly The Oh, OBJ and
at, act lie pronounced IL eat
when the 'bereavcd and loving WIFE textract from
my half-column obituary. came for the cards
handed them TO her with a grave smile.
No other Office In the country do this kind Of
work, madame said. You will no doubt see 1T once
the superiority of the work. She examined them with
pride took one from her.
''lou Will notice. | said. The :" ob-died.T the act
age and the appropriate mourning border
She scanned the at home, Thursday at p. m
with wrnkled brow.
And | fastened ~ put il. 'yon viii also notice
the at homc'-tde hour for the funeral OF course.
Her face cleared and then wrcatlied III smiles.
She looked long al the cards.
Don't you think. she asked that we ought {,
have coffin or tomb or something like that on them
e! knew that colld not get up any such thing
and that II we could we had no more cards
".IOu see,' / stammered. 'the-tlat is-oL yes-you
coins were In style funeral cards short while
hut they not being used in the best society
AT present. Fashions charge so rapidly yOn know
- would like collins on them she said, with a
sigh. but If thcy not in STYLE now
"'Of course II YOU prefer them. said for | saw
that she would not have collins under any con
sideraon.
mo she answered little stiy as IL / were
urging them. they not in STYLE
Now that's what call tact. Those cards
the envy Of the town and they got the county
printing Come out to Dogtovn aud me run a
newspaper