The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-10-12

md the result is that The money |
MAXI editor receives little. if any
. nssuragement. There may be a(
Jew mcrchants willing to advertise,
On . small scale, provided it Is 1
taken out in trade. Country
in many Instances have
passion for advertising when the bill
can be liquideted In lard or other
family groceries and the country edi-
tor oftentimcs from sheer necessity
makes deaf with the clothing man
and the bar room people. have DIS
covered that after the country editor
has spent from six to eight months in
che second stage of his existence a
large nunA her Of bills begin to collec
about him. When bills begin to get
their work apon a country editor he
nigh. as vel close up his shop and go
to saving wood al once, The bill col
tector has ruined more country editors
than oil the other evil agencies com
hined. have seen country editors on
tho streets suddenly dodge into a hole
Ia the wall, as il they were after a
bnrglar; bat they were only doaging
the bill collector, who was seen ap.
proaching. The bill collector, while
he may have mercy and spare other
people, neser lets up on the country
editor. He follows him into his
private office, chases him along the
streets, even goes with him to church
andsitsk5 Aim ia the choir. When
the coaantry editor has reached this
stage Ia The pcriot OF his j.eutnalistic
eyolation he usually either gees heavily
20 drink, becomes suddenly pious and
Joins the church, or. ss have often
xnown to be the csse. does both. II
be goes into the church, sings in the
s;hoir, gives Sunday school picnics large
and enthusiastic write-ups. he gains
he coaddencs Of church people. who
are aiwsys The best people IN country
town. and upon their ia fiuence he finds
support ssr his declining career. IL
however, be goes to drink. his fall is
much more rapid, for he 5000 gets out
4 money and then his friends disap-
pear. Sometimes whea this stage Is
reached tho country editor goes into
politics, becomes a prohibitionisi \
.dyocate and drinks harder and heav
Ter. 1t is seldom, however, that he
gets into Office. so he shifts along
owing every body, the ridicule of every
one, until he either has his ofice take n
away BY the sheriff is driven out of |
town BY his landlady, or assent up to
the "ouaty farm for forgery. After
the second perioi in the life of the |
country editor has passed he naturally
sinks out of sight TO q great sxtentia and |
S little heard of. Many of them still
cling 10 their business as printers 10
arger of8ces: many of them wander to !
he city and oeeomA jim crow repor |
'ers. and others still wander off to
Utah and join the Mormoas. Abour
me out of every twelty succeed in tn.
Profession. I have seen instance
where they have managed to eke on
IN existence at the business, but tn. |
of them wan Ter Of to th
'arm; some Of them sell patent med
line for . living, white there are fe,
Instances OF them entering the minis
~. Some OF the m. re sensible MARI
'efore It is too late, and rely upo
heir wife for cap ort The countr
ditor nc this stage of his disease
ruly pitifu. sp ci nen of hasnanity
they have sorrows of all colors wril
en- upon th' ir faces, and with a pei
ect disgust Tor the W orld and all tt
nhasitsu S thereof they live out lii,
Unknown, unhoRored, unsuug an.
unsuccessful A. II. MECKLIN.
While in ChieaRn Mr Charlaa r.