The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-11-18
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get The Office and IN run 1t fer
YOU" AT this line the other paper
lrrilated me BY personal editorial
which referred to inc in a way that
would irrilale the ice cream cast
of Patience. Ii was then ttaiI
lelegraphed my application, and It
was acted upon at once by the
President. l wrote TO him, ex.
pressing my thanks, and Offering
to correspond regularly with him,
and to aid him always whenever
he got into hot water; ''for, add.
ed, 81 live for those who love me.
whether l lay upanything or not"
This letter Mr.. Arthur permitted
to go TO The press and the cores.
pondenls at Washington, for, Of
course, he was naturally proud
and happy over il; bu. il was an
official letter, and IN either event
il was mol for the public. Besides
it drew out adverse criticism, es.
pecially from the London press.
The London press asserted that
this was no way TO write 10 Pres
ident.
held the post office a year, and
then startled the ranks Of the Re-
publican party by resigning. l left
the flee ard a fire.proof safe,
which was too heavy to travel with,
and which the porter told me lie
could not allow me 10 bring into
the car.
The Boomerang newspaper was
regarded as prosperous enter
prise by those who did no, have TO
pay The bills. II was extensively
copied by the press Of America,
and even abroad. The news com.
panies began to order il, and ons
copy was taken 10 Europe. All
this made me proud and cheerful,
but it did not seem TO appeal 10
The Chinaman who was my laun.
dress at The time.
can now see that a paper like
the Boomerang, III the natural
course of events, could not by any
possible means have become a val.
liable piece OF property, except as
a sort of gymnasium for the edi-
Tor to practice industry and econ.
omy in. For that purpose it af-
forded good, light, airy room, and
while not in actual training could
60 and play in the haymow across
the hall. Papers of this character
haye never paid. We had every
body in the Territory on our sub.
scription list,-everybody outside
the reservation,-and after The
summer massacre was over, and
the Indians came back 10 the res.
ervation Tor the winter, some of
them used to subscribe also but
even il We had every man who
read, We did not have more than
enough to squeeze along. Kind
hearted exchanges copied us, and
credited us day after day and
week after week !; but still we
languished, and even. The stock.
holders could not understand that
paper might be copied over sew.
eral continents and yet die of in.
anition. | proved to my own en-.
tire satisfaction that paper may
be cheered, copied and indorsed
abroad when no one will indorse
} The editors own paper at the home
, bank, and that approval of the ed
+, ilorial policy may overwhelm him
at the moment when he is decid.
!, ing whether 10 put the molasses
/, IN the roller composition or to eat
! it himself.
J. There is grim and ghastly hu.
mor-the humor that Is born of a
. pathetic plilosophy-which now
! and then strikes me in reading The
bright and keen. wltted work oil
! our American paragraphers. 1t il
e humor tina: may be crystalized
n by hunger and sorrow and tears
a It is not found elsewhere as it is in
s America. 1t is out Of the question
e in England, because an English
:. man cannot poke fun al himself
y lie cannot Joke about an empty
I llonr.barrel. We can; especially
s if by so doing 1t we may sway the
:. joke for another barrel OF flour
y We can never be nation of snObs
u so long as we are willing to poke
a fun at ourselves. 1t saves US from
Q making asses of ourselves. To-day
: many well fed special writer
goes on Saturday evening to the
u cashier of a prosperous metropolis
: tan journal for the reward he earn
o ed years ago on some struggling,
a starving, wailing bantling that Il
+ now sleeping in the valley.
i There are gray streaks in his
r hair, and a wrinkle here and there
q that came when he walked the
l floor of nights with that feeble
Q pulling, colicky journalistic child
s but those gray hairs he col wisdom
:. and learned patience. lie learned
y TO be more prodigal with his hu
}. NOR, and more economical with
q his moaas, and when he got a IT.
L lie grist OF sunshine, he called in
: the neighhors, and when one woe
i came as The advance agent of q
: still greater, allied woe, travelling