The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-18
THE COUNTRY EDITOR.
Just Now He Is Having Some Reward
 for His LabOrs.
Portland Oregonian.

Portland oregonian.
 Who has a better time than the coun- TozeE nd oa5 S5d p6 want. down in Oklahoma, the honored guest of an enthusiastic populace, at bullfghts. banquets and berbecues; The National Editorial Association Is hold ing its annual session at Guthrie. and Albert Toziers from all the. States of the Union are there. You might imag- tivity in Oregon, sufficient to bring all the way across the continent a Vice. President of the United States-days the rigors of a city election, and the land-frauds trials loom up on the hori- zon, there would be excitement enough at home for Editor Tozier. There is. What he Is after, and what every other Editor Tozier is after in these halcyon June days every year, Is surcease from commingling of souls that comes only with the society of your own kind. The country editor, like all editors, is gregarious. Despite a grievously conn eat, drink and be merry. to lard over attenuated ribs. with the substance, and not the shadow. of earths good things, with other bright intellects, and to re- vive drooning spirits by the inspiring annals of the years successes. It IS railroad corporations every year to see ye editor, learn where he wants to go and provide the wherewith in the shape of free passes and plenty of them. If the railroad has an obligation to the country editor which 1t discharges un- grudingly. so that he may go where he will and come back when he will, ye editor owes it to himself to see that the benevolent purposes of the corporation are not thwarted. So rare a quality in a railroad should be carefully and reg ularly encouraged. Thus we always find that about this time of year sane -tums are deserted, scissors are rusttng L. u,-Ne kEA nE.k is surrendered to the bluebottle fly, and Pro Bono Publico," ''Veritas," "Citi- gen." and "Subscriber' are turned over to the tender mercies of the office devil The editor is off on his annual junket.
 If any one thinks 1t is an easy job to 1t. To be sure, there is a large number of misguided citizens who always fancy that 1t takes nothing but stub pencil, a Washington hand-press, pot of printers ink and a limited line of credit with a patent-lnside concern to fill a Iong-felt want in a yearning communi- ty; but they always find out their mis- comes due. It takes a great deal of persistence and some brains to get along in the country, just the same as writes a hifalutin salutatory and Issues
 Vol. 1, No. 1. under the notion there Is
 nothing then to do but to put his feet
 up on his desk and walt for eager suD-
 scribers and hnugry advertisers to roll In, invariably takes 1t out in waiting. To be sure, 1t sometimes happens that Mrs. Samantha Winterbottom drops in
 and lays adozen eggs on our table" !" and "one of our leading citizens, Mr. | Hans Swensen of Norwegian Gulch. fa- vored yereditor last week by dumping a
 fine load of cordwood in our back | yard;" but you may be pretty sure that | Mrs. Winterbottom and Mir. Swenson
 cash the weekly visits of the newspaper I to their homes. An editor must eat
 and neither cordwood nor bad eggs dC empty stomach The country editol
 that thankfully receives damaged hen fruit and secondhand firewood usuall,
 finds that he gets very little of anything ] else. On the other hand. the publl