Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-26

sAs1u Vhe lana Tor sale.
Il did not think that Won would ,o.
me an IN such lurch," said Natb '>' leave
My dear boy," replied the co,ou.,
h you have acted honestly by me- 4o ani
honesty always receives \ r9,v. luz, !, ana
h,, Gur once was q small frame hon.e
u uuu. ABOUT two and half feet off The
ground ground a drove of hogs slentN oS
i ,aSner pretended to sleep under tho
~ hot ~, ana although at first we objected
-. ~ 'ne invasion, We soon began to Ike
.ne uproar, in that it drove awav tho
nolse OF the village stiffness.
one day Nath came in and dac,oroa
we We're going to have trouble .What
asked. 'o " "ee'' L
Worse than that" he replied. "a
strange hog has come to town"
Yes" said I, "but cannot he soon
hogs?" ~ 'ne o'ner
That isn't it, you see. The strange
h,og is razor-back SOW and is, abont
three feet tall" N'
What difference does that make?"
What ditference" he contemptu-
onsly repeated. Don't Won see that
she is too tall to get under the house >.
dismissed the matter, having to
write an editorial on the Great Evils
ARISING from Excessive Immigration,
but Nath was worried, and, as / soon
found out, not without cause. That
night the hogs came around as usual.
Inc strange SOW came with them, and
although she might have seen that she
could not get under, yet the enterpris.
ing fool, in trying to force her way,
tipped over the house and pied the
office.
1t took US three days to straiehten
the office again, and this time the
architecture was on q more liberal plan
The house was raised high enough for
the strange SOW.
Just as the busy season came upon
us we received notice that the State
Press Association was soon to meet in q
town about two hundred miles away.
ut will never do to miss that con-
vention, said Nath. ct tell you that
men who are ground down as we have
been lately are in need of recreation.
1t is all very we'll for merchant or a
railroad man to stand year after year
to his work, but the newspaper man
needs rest. Brain work builds and it
also topples things over. It builds up
world and it then turns itself into q
wreck. Now, 1 don't propose to turn
my brain into wreck. lam going to
that convention"
"But what will become of the paper"
I asked.
Il don't know. Rest is now OF more
importance to me than work."
We went to the convention. went on
long excursion and missed two issues
of the Oak Leaf. I knew that our
business was ruined, but Nath was
cheerful. The second day after our re.
turn he said:
Il don't suppose you will ever be 8
philosopher, will you? I am afraiG
not" he added.
IF it is philosophy to ruin man.
business merely to 60 to a convention
do not want to be philosopher"
@But whose business has beer
ruined?"
"Ours. We have missed two issue
of the paper"
"Ah, hah! thought you would look
at it in way about as dull as that. But
you see I am fortunately little sharper
than you are. Ihave madea discovery
have been doing little figuring and
have found that we have made more
money on the two issues that we missed
than we ever made on any half dozen
issues that we got out. Why, just look
here. Take the items. Running OK
penses, nothing. There is a big item
for you. Running expenses, you know,
have ruined many newspaper. In
come from advertisements, forty-three
dollars. Many paper has gone to the
wall simply because its advertisements
did not offset its running expenses"
"What are you going to do?" I
asked. care you going to suspend en-
tirely, seeing chat you make more when
you don't print?"
"Oh, not going to suspend perman-
emily, but will not get out another issue
till we catch up"
That was many years ago. Nath
Billbeck is now publishing paper in
New Mexico, and the following is IN
extract from a recent issue: lowing
to meeting of the Press Association,
this paper will not come out next week
nor the week after, but after that oui
subcribers may look for it with consist
ent regularity
/ Unlucly Thirteen.
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