The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-17

81 TO 20 a week TO run the Universe. MI
enact charges penny g cents) line for
local advertisements, and siXDence a lire
Tor Official advertisements. London adver-
Using agents vouchsafe him standing ads
about DR.. keWremalrs pills and Madame
Ritenuff's Elixir Vital at a penny line
which is his second most important
source of income; officials ads being the
chief
So, after Michael has industrlously ard
conscienuously labored oil the week vita
both hand and brain-after he has silt
the worlds workings 10 Intellectual wheat
Tor his dependent clientele-after he has
tramped to the corners of his cons itueacy
and raked in the births and deaths and
marriages. the inquests and Dances coIn-
ell meetings and Land League meetings,
the cominSs and goings of the many men
of Importance in whom his readers are
interested, the police courts the accidents
and the extraordinary happening s-after
he has recorded all this. ard distributed
it in four page broadsheets far and wide
over his halliwick. paid his hands, AMI
reckoned his accounts, ne finds accruing
TO himself a net weekly income of from six
10 eight dollars.
There are host OF weekles in more
thriving and populous parts Of the coun-
try which, after paying s. a week 20 a
stenographic reporter, remunerate their
owner-editor with three times five dollars
the former being a fair average.
Coaxing Copy With the Scissors.
The editorial duties Of the Legananpy
Universe are both very easy ana very
difficult. Independent of local reports end
items, Michael could coax more copy with
the scissors, from the daily papers than
would fill his paper ten times over But
he must find room for a eulosistic article
upon the success of 'Elamon BoyPs young
son Tommy al the examination for en-
trance 10 Maynooth College of Divinity;
a minute and detailed description OF the
funeral cortege that trod after the last
of poor Owen MCCLELLAN. with names an
full address of every man, woman ana
child present is absolutely imperative
and let him at his peril dare presume o
publish the following weeks issue of me
Universe without giving in a prominent
place the supplied account of Miss Nc
Gettigan's tea pxrty-to which he WAS
not invited He must read his cor
respondents copy three times over TO
| make sure that he has located Naho eN-
] punged) all the libels open and concealed
| He must publish the THE Bard of Bun
Inns" elegiac lines. thirty-nine stanzas'
| on the sad death of his bosom FRIEND
| Johnnie McCormac-whOse chief recon-
| mendation is that the poor victim mad
gone TO a sphere where he was not nhely
| ever to hear of the preparation. lie
I y
| tato-patch (ready to announce the hrsi
tuher of the season. and the other ON the
| policy of the nation. To the croWnel
| heads of Europe he must give timely
warning of the rocks and shoals he dis
| Gems ahead Of their ships of state, and
10 the townland of Thrummon announce
| the exact weight and dimensions of the
| extraordinary egg lad last THURSDAY 10y
| Cornelius McGlanachy's spOtt duck.
| Michaels numerous army OF CORE pom
| dents, for he has correspondent-an as
pining lit rary MANN each district sal
| aired with a salary of one copy OF Inc
| Universe per week. has got to be kept
| on hand humore1, and their enerestes
| turned into the proper channels; their
| talent for romancing has got to be gent
| " and firmly repressed. their copy stern
| ly edited and their poems" published, or
promised.
AS there Is a marriage, meeting, an
inquest, or a funeral every other day OF
the week. Michael can~easly afford to
take to himself any day. but Sunday.
Consequently on the Sabbath he only
takes notes of Father Dams sermon, picks
up items from the natives of the oQtly-
ing districts who materialize once a
week at mass. clears off mis- correspc nd
ence score, and heaVes the sigh of a man
who has unburthened his conscience.
Then he is prepared to fill a new weeks
work with good nerve and ccol courage.
Queer Libel Suits.
Michael has been defendant in only ten
libel actions in an editorial career of TWEEN
ty-nine years-which is a record in Irish