The times., 1897-12-12
The Danger of Patent Insides.

Steve Jennings, %ho recently passed
through Kansas Citya on his way to Port
rthu., used to run little country weekly
up in u Nebraska town, and he knows all
about the ylcissitudek OF rural newspaper
dom.
About one third OF these little sheets, :"
said ha, were established for business pur.
poses; another third were set on foot to
boom the II terests OF some candidate for
office, and the remainder are printed for
fun. Yoo see, Tie expense of getting them
out is very little. Your patent insides
cost yc.u about cents quire, consfdera-
bly, less than half a cent sheet. and ali
you Eave 70 do is to set up type enough
to print one side OF the paper. A good
many Of the editors don't even do this, but
fill up with dead ads, pot metal plates
and stereotyptd cuts that may or may not
have relevancy to the subject matter in
which they appear.
The three ar four columns Of news and
editorial are set T. some girl or boy of the
village who Is learning the printers trade
ana who WIN work for little or nothing,
and, as the office is usually the home Of The
editor. you can readily zee that the cost
OF issuing TIE JonesyilIc Investigator
is to say tile least, nominal,
so the editors waste their space ana
their tiile in various WAYS. l remember
once there was a movement on foot in
Clark eourty TO hold a special election 10
vote bonds and give bonus to railroad
that had surveyed a right OF way thr0 igh
Jonesville. The contract for printing the
advertisement, which was to appear in
five consecutive Issues, was awarded to
both The investigator and The Regis
ter, the opposition sheet.
. The Investigator received the copy
and SCI up the ada column and half of
long primer. Then The Register editor
called to get the copy for his printers.
There's no use,' said I, with Journal
istic courtesy, of your setting that thing
up. After we've gone to press Friday, just
send the boy over with galley and get the
TYPE. You're perfectly welcome to IT.
This seemed satisfactory, and so for the
next five weeks that Column and half OF
lorg p,frGer, typogTaphical errors and all
was used interchange bly, by the 'Investi
gator and the Register 1t appear ed in
the Investigator Fridays and in the Regis.
ter Saturdays, and in all that time, verify
| believe, it was read enl Y By the printer who
set it up.
'0n Saturday afternoon Of the fifth weejs
| the Register devil brought the type bacl
| for the last time. | Thought he seemed un-
| commonly cheerful as he accoStei my aD
prentice and Ieered at me from counte-
nance frescoed with parti-cnIored inks, bat
dismissed the subject, picked up a handful
| of lifelong primer and began distri buting il
in the case.
| six O'Clock came and my devil went
home. ! remained to throw in my case.
| About an hour liter Ed Hilton, man
| ahout-town, and warm friend of THE
| Investigator entered the office in highl )
excited state.
| Say, you Letter hide said he. 'Kriel
has gone after hi; gum
| ''Krit. was the editor Of the Register
why, what's eAtin' of huf' 1 asked
using an tdiom of 5he locality.
8 That type youchangeG on him. said
Hilton. He's mad beca use you made hi I
call himself jimler- jawed hyena in his
own paper
still didn't understand, and / re
| NAMED in the darl until Hiltcn pulled q
copy Of the Register from his pocket ant
pointed to the advertisement of the specia
election.
"Can you believe i'll 1t was literan!
peppered with irrtverent interpretations
Long, tedious descriptions or land tracts
were frightened up with bursts D { pungen
slang, in which Editor Kriel, with wonder
full self fahnegation, was made to aaA hm
self several kinds q jibbering idiot.
'.The editor Of this paper escaped from
the lCnatic asylum. Better watch him,
read one paragraph, the spelling OF which
readily recognized as that Of my devil.
The outcome oft all was l took a nigh
train and dropped down the road abou
twenty five miles to the home of relative
where | remained until it was time 10 hegil
work on the next.reeks issue, ami in aht
meantime kTiel s chad eociedtloSn some
what. But he never was abif. to collect hi
fees for the publication of that ad.'