The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-07
A Countrr Editor.s story.

Steven Jennings. who recently passed
through Kansas City on his way to Port
Arthur used 10 run a little country week
~ up in a Nebraska town, and he knows
al. about the viciSsitudes of rural news
paperdoHi, says the Kansas City Times.
About one-third of these little sheets"
said he, were established for business
purposes; another third were set on foot
to boom the interests of some candidates
for Office, and the remainder are printed
for fun. You see, the expense of getting
them out is very little. Your patent in
sides cost You about 9 cents quire, con-
sideraoly less than half a cent a sheet,
ana All you have to do is to set up type
enough TO print one side of the paper \
GOOD many of the editors don't even do
ms, but iii UP with dead ads, pot metal
Plates ana stereotyped cuts thaC may or
may not have the relevancy TO the subject
matter in which they appear.
The three or four columns of news and
EDITORIAL are set up by some girl or boy
OF the village who Is learning the printer
trade, and who will work for little or
nothing, and, as the office is usually the
nome OF the editor, you can readily see
thaI the cost OF issuing the JonesVille
INVESTIGATOR is, 10 say the least. nominal.
. 80 the editors waste their space and
tAelr time IN various ways. l remember
once there was a movement on foot in
Gay county to mold a special election to
vote bonds TO give a bonus to a railroad
mat had surveyed a right of way through
advertisement, which was to appear in
nVe consecutive issues, was awarded TO
ootn the investigator and the Register,
The investigator received the copy
ana set up The ada column and a half
OF long primer. The the Register editor
called TO get the copy for his printers.
-, Ihere. no use said I, with journal
lstlc courtesy of your setting that thing
up. After We've gone 10 press Friday.
Just send the boy over with a galley and
NJ 10
10 it.
This seemed satisfactory and so for
| the next five weeks that column and a
| halt OF long primer, typographical errors
| ana all, was used INTERCHANGEABLE by the
InvestIga tor and the Register. 1t APP
the Register Saturdays. and in ali that
| Tune, / verify believe. it was read only by
the ne printer who set it up.
| on saturday afternoon of the fifth
| week, the Register devil brought the type
| back for the last time. / thought he seem
| ed uncommonly cheerful. as he accosted
| my apprentice and leered at me from a
inks, but dismissed the subject, picked up
| a handIul OF the long primer and began
| dis ributing il in the case.
! Six o'clock came and my devil went
| nome l remained to throw i'm my case.
About an hour later Ed Hilton, man.
aoout-town and warm friend of the IN
| Vestigator, entered the office in a highly
| excited state.
g Say, you better hide said he, 'Krel
! has gone after his gum
| krel was The editor of the REGISTER.
! Why, what's eatin' of him?' | asked
| using an idlom of the lOca lily.
- That type you changed on him. said
| Hilton. He's mad because you made him
can himself TIMBER jawed hyena in his
| own paper
still didn't understand, and l remain
| ed in the dark until Hilton pulled copy
of the Register from his pocket and point
! ed to the advertisement of the special
| election.
Can you believe it! 1t was literally
| peppered with irreverent interpretations
! Long. tedious descriptions of land tracts
/ were frightened up with bursts of pun
| gent slang, in which Editor Kreil, with
| wonderful self-abnegati was made t5
call himself several kinds of a jibberina
! ia OF.
81, The editor Of this paper escaped from
the lunatic asylum. Better watch him
! read one paragraph, the spelling of which
| l readily recognized as that of my devil
| The outcome of it all was / took Z
night train and dropped down the road
| about twenty-five miles to the home of a
| relative, where / remained until il was
! time to begin work on the next week
| issue, and in the meantime Kriels ire had
cooled down somewhat But he never was
able to collect his fees for the publication
| of that ad."