The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-08-08
THE HOBO EDITOR.

"I'n never forgit," unused the re-
fined Hobo, ''a winter I put in in
place called Shattagee, up in New
Hampshire. struck that town In the
early part of the winter in company
with one of the most affable geniuses
that ever gev the road welt He was
printer, an, say, by the way, will
youse fellers that write the newspapers
tell me what there is in the printin
part that sends the cravin fer adventure
an agony coursin the veins of the typof
Durn it, if l hahn t run across piles of
EN- on the road, all men of consider
able education an ability.
'tHowbeit, this pal of mine what was
side tracked with me comm down FIN
Montreal welted it inter this here town
I was speakin of. He proves to be one
of the slickest / ever saw. Talked like
Chesterfield, as the feller sez an what
he didn't know about the fine arts-the
drama, books, paintin's an Shakespeare
WASH categorical as culture 1t was
BLOWN up stormy an we wanders inter
the 'lectric light station of the town fer
rebate IN the storm that was a-brewin
outside.
"WeI, that pal of mine puts up the
ablest game of talk I ever listens to.
The engine room was comfortable, an
| we sits there soakin up the heat, me pal
drawin out what the engineers hob
| bies was, an me a-backin him up.
'.The engineer was crank on poetry
an plays. So. while the snowstorm
howls outside, the night force gathers
| aroun' me pal, the engineer, firemen an
the rest, an listens to treat sich as
| they seldom he'd before. The typo gev a
readin on "A Midsummer's Night
Dream an many others of the defunct
William. We all has supper tergether
an me pal an meself retires on the
couches they fixes up fer us about mid
night.
| ''We wakes about @. IN. The night
force was goin home, but outside the
snowdrifts was in great heaps. The
manner in which we got over to the
town center battles description, as the
feller sez, but we makes it.
eve finds the only place open the
corner grocery an general store. The
engineer is still with us, an after in
vitin us in ter hav some apollinaris he
finds out what is the trouble with the
storekeeper, who, by the way, seems tel
hold about every public office in town.
Why the engineer was saying, don't
worry over that, he sez, this gentle
imam is printer an writer of ability,
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how ter run the press.
"Then we learns what the trouble is.
The storekeeper had bought out the
weekly county newspaper few years
ago, an while he couldn't write para
graph without gettin nervous prostra
tion, managed ter make the venture {
success financially. He hired a lawyer
from an adjacent town ter come over 1
few days week an fix up the new
gathered in the store by the clerks inte
readable shape The balance of the pa
per outside the ads was made up o
boiler plate, which was bought in Bos
ton. The lawyer editor had not arrived
on account of the storm, presumably
an only one Of the printers was on deck
The paper was scheduled ter come out OF
the morrow, so we goes ter work.
''The storekeeper sets up box of hi
best cigars an some refreshments, al
while me pal goes ter work up stairs i
the printin room l keeps down stairs a
interviews every one who come on thei
OK sled all about the storm in thei
neighborhood. Bein possessed Of q sus
. ceptible imagination, adds some en-
= bellishments of me own.
81 goes up stairs every once in
while, an typo takes notes Good, b
sez, that's hot stuff So goes dow
stairs for more facts 1 leaves him u
there wearin a worried look for only
moment.
d "The man down stairs was a blusteri
j., sort of q fellow, but he was our cringi
- suppliant, as the feller sez, throughor
that day. Everything is proceedin low
ly, an the publisher is delighted The p;
= per has had an uninterrupted record {
comm out on schedule time since he ha
taken it in charge, an sooner than mi
it comm out termorrow he would dra
on his bank account.
1.-THE other printers, who were a
young women, strolls iii as the storl
calms down some, an the publisher Il
forms them that me pal is editor
chief, copy cutter an foreman. Ever,
v. thing is goin lovely. l comes up with
rainbow story of how Zeke Snodgra
become hero on account of his nigh {
steppin inter the creek on his way