The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-08-04
(copyriaht 1910, by Benj. B. Hampton.)

~@ isn't often tha: a town like Kno has 1N1b . real journalist in it's midst, and when 9Wt 1t does have it ought 10 be proud and aN4A thankful; but right at first Kilo was
 EzSCNAV u,ore 6azed and startled than anything SSO9I else. I should say that Kilo, when 1t 6~ acquired the real journalist, was like
 nIce uao.hsriy old COW that had gone ou. into the back pasture with che best and mildest insen' Aons In the world have ordinary, gentle. wob- AIylegxs6 eHif and then found. all of sudden. that sne had given birth to e wheelbarrow loaded with 9reworks Lighted fireworks at that: with pin wheels and Roman candles. and Sl.yrOckets, and red and blue lights all going af st oncs. At first that co~ would be surprised. then she would be pained and disappointed, and then she would prob ably get used to 1t Next to hen or the American Public the COW Is the biggest fool on sarth. and will gst used to anything. even yellow journalist
 When Thomas Jefferson Jones sold the Kfo Times hs had been editing and publishing it and working the old Washington hand press for about ten ysars and he had made 1. of the most slow going respectable, desiccsted weekly papers in Mid de Iowa. of the kind that. if he was sick some week. he could reprint week before lasts paper and nobody would notice the difference; and Ko had got used to that kind of paper and liked it
 But Davfs was a different sort of man. He saw that the Times needed little life put into it. and he put it in On the paper for which Davis had been Ink headlines. and scandal and crime on the first page. and the very first number of the Times he got out had Wave of Crime" headline across the top of the first page in red with subheads of "Kilo Police Rankly Inefficient" and "The Criminal Still At Large" That was the best he could do with the news at hand, which was that chicken had been stolen from Doc Viewers hen GOOD, but he made up tor it by startling Later item at the bottom of the page in doublespaced lines. telling that just the Times was going to press it learned tha. the chicken had not been stolen but had been dis covered by Mrs. Doc Weaver under the back porch setting on eleven eggs.
 Davis hadn't been publishing the Times more than month and half before he saw that 1t waa going to strain him to keep up the speed he had set for himself
 The minute Davis stepped of the train when he came to K1lo he set his Old Billings and gave him his proper news value There Old Billinga punched up on an egg case against the side of the depot right in the heat of the sum- with hat slip ped down onto the platform and his head lolling over onto one shoulder, and snoring like automo bile horn with gr1nt the full blast and trern olo the intake, and his face and nose as red as the side of the Kilo Livery, Feed and Sale Stable
 Nobody deny that Old Billings looked drunk Ii Mrs Jarley had wanted to make a waxwork figure and had made one with a palpitator inside of it to make the chest rise end fall and Q tooter to snere and had called 1t Sleeping Of His sntoxtcation," she couldn't have done better than to copy Old Bill lngs just as he looked when Davis stepped from the train. Old Billings perfect imitation of him. self as he would have looked If he had been dead drunk, only he wasn't drunk, and never had been in his life. He was teetota1, hard-she1l, bluerfbbon Iowa prohibitionist. don't wonder 1t riled Davis especially strong on man who is . modern jour. nalist with gallons of red ink and fourteen asserted fonts of wooden scarehead type has to be strong