Evening star., 1896-08-15
AN ACCOMMODATING EDITOR.
He Tried to Fill q Long Felt Want by
Accommodating Everybody.

Accommodating Everybody.
The hotel clerk had introduced The Star
reporter to a guest with the pleasant hint
! that the visitor might have something TO
impart in the nature of Information. but
the clerk was mistaken. At all events
the reporter got nothing and he fell back
upon the clerk.
"Who is her he inquired.
AN editor" replied the clerk.
Truly a great distinction but Is he great
as an editor well as q mere man."
They think so in his state"
What state?"
"Ohio or Indiana. Look on the regis
ter"
What Is his act? What does he DO
that entities him to credity'
Nothing now, but some time ago, about
when you were a kid and the clerk be-
came patronizing. he had a daily news
paper in a thrifty little city out there
somewhere. and ne had SO many subscrib-
ers who knew better how to run a news
paper than he did"
Just they always d." Interrupted
the reporter.
That he concluded he would give them
all a whack at it," continued the clerk.
so he announced that he would be pleased
to receive suggestions an person or by let
ter. and on the following Wednesday week
he would issue the paper according TO the
changes recommended. The first sugges-
tion was from woman who said she
didn't want any politics in her paper and
he Knocked that department out. Then
somebody else objected to the sporting
news and that went. Then a sporting
man didn't want any church or religious
news, and that was knocked out Then
man kicked because he wasn't getting
his moneys worth of reading because there
were too mahy advertisements and so on
ana so on. the editor making due notice
n a opl
made up on the appointed Wednesday
there wasn't line OF matter I'm 1t In
deed. there wasn't any printing at all In
the forms except the heading OF the paper,
and the editor was feeling pretty good
on that score anyhow. II was approuch-
ing the hour of going TO press when his
wife came tripping into the Office
dainty, sweet. helpful woman she was
was curious to know about what the pa
per would be like for the editor was keep
Ing that part of 1t secret. She came
into his sanctum and picking up a paper
of the day before she was gIancing
through II casually as people do when
they have nothing else to do and are wait
Ing for train TO start or the man ahead
to get out OF the BARRIERS chair when she
unconscfously sighed: Well. I do think
this paper has the ugliest head I ever
saw wonder why Henry keeps IT.
Then ii occurred to her that Henry was
after just such suggestions from his sub
scrihers and she wouldn't for the world
have let him know what she thought So
she choked the sigh down suddenly and
looked around the office to see il Henry
was anywhere rear. She only heard a
door slam in the hack part Of the building
ana with breath of relief she settled
back in her chair again to wait for tho
paper OF the day before and a request for
streets and on the counter and there
wasn't line of print anywhere about II.
Never line, and when the editor came
up and found his wife waiting he smiled.
The next day he had an editorial On tha
paper of the day before and a request for
the names OF those who had no further
suggestions TO offer. and behold, on the
Following day his wifes name led the list,
and she vowed she never sent Il in TO
him. Just the same IL was a fine lesson
In practical newspaper making for all his
people, and after that they attended to
their own business while he attended to
theirs and his too. and now he is rich and
respectable and az happy a man can be
who is still on earth"