The Ordway new era., 1908-12-04
Country Editors Jonah Dav

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fost who graduated from country
weekly and now looks back with n
sympathetic perspective, writes Of the
Joys OF Country Weekly:
The day after publication is tina
newspaper mans Jonah day. Th.
editor Is taking the brief respite me
tween This and the time when n.
must again begin To rustic for copv
Tor ms next issue, to the making ON,
OF his last months bills which lie has
not had time To attend to before.
"Ding ding" goes the telephone
oeiI ana an iratc voice demands, "Why
didn't we get our paper this week:
VI course, we uOn't care ANYTHING
about the old rag, but since We maid
our g"od money for u We want 1t reg
ularly." Apologies and earnest prom.
ises on the editors part, all IN smooth,
honcyed tones
lie settles down to figure again,
when the stcnograplrr u>hcrS Ia the
president of the Woman, Fuss and
Bustle Club, who takes up half an
hours valuable time pcrsuading him
To publish four column article on
"Thc lnadvisability Of Unlrglble
Handwriting in our Public Sclunl-: or
What Is This World Coming To-" As
she goes out In Comes old Reuben
Snoopcndikc OF Squrechct Center. aud
wants tn know IL he will take out Il
part OF his back subscription (hc is
owing from 1889 III potatoes. We
have had Reubcn's POTATOES before
and they are pretty pour fodder, but
In this business you have to take what
you can get when you can get IL.
Rack To the bills again, when "Ding
ding" goes that phone again, and an
other angry voice wants 10 know why
that Item was omitted about Saul
Smiihdyke having two new shingles
put on his red barn? EXcusablc lies
follow. and rs soon rs his wrath is ap-
pcased, Mrs. Futhcringtun Fosdyck OF
the Smart Set, lets us know she Is
quite put out over that paragraph
about their having measles In the
family. "Such "A common disease, and
besides IL was only one Of the kitchen
maids had IL. not one OF the children"
More apologies and promises to do
better.
Now, here comes the devil" who
is also mail.carricr, back from the
postoillcc with list as long as your
arm OF changes Of addresses, and as
soon as we get Our mailing list all
nicely revised We will receive another
list changing them all back the way
they were In the first place. Oh. JOY
] Oh, bliss. Along with this mail are
three cards informing us that three
old duiIers. owing us $40, sl2 and $50
apiece, have died and were buried at
the towns expense. Forty-twO dollars
more to go on the loss side OF the
ledger. We see where our wives don't
get any of those Merry lla la Wildly
brain. weights this year.
Here one OF the leading citizens ana
nuisanccs Of the village calls up ana
wants to know II we cant drop every
thing and come up and interview her
about the way her ncighbor across the
street abuses her children. In the
course OF the next half hour this ONCE
Is used as an employment bureau, gen
l..C. i.,p hpufh station IUT
hard luck stories, loan dispcnsary, ana
what not.
In taking a few minutes to glance
over Yesterdays issue IL is found tilat
I'm the medical ad. for DIR. killycm
Purple Pills for Peculiar People the
printer caused one line to read: Surc
Cure or Certain Death"
The last straw is not reached now
ever, until Lawyer Skinnem comes ~
and tears up the place. saying tha'
we left out an important legal nol'ce
he sent in. At this the poor editor
vets SO nervurious he dips the mucii'
ave brush In the black ink, upsets the
red ink all over his neatly maze "u'
bills, daubs blue pencil marks all over
his chin aud finally rushes to tue
nearest drug store for Coco boio
this being a nO.license town.
And yet, every day dozens OF peop''
are remarking on how easy 1t must o.
tn run a country weekly and wha'
lots OF money there must be in II.
A misty Evening.