The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-03-13
tcopyriahs 1910. BY Benz. q. Hampten.)

r isn't often that . town like Kilo has
INI . real journalist in it, midst, and when
WI does have 1t ought to be proud and
xNAk thankful: but right At drst k1lo was
y4~NNV more dAzed and startled than anything
N4e0RI else. l should say that Kilo. when It
~ acquired the real Journalist like
q NICE motherly old COW that had gone out into the
back pasture with the best and mildest 1nsen'
byLegged CALI and then found. all OF sudden. that
she had given birth Q wheelbarrow loaded with
and snSes at
red and blue lights all going OF at once At nrse
that COW would be surprised. then she would be
ably got used to It Next to a hen or the American
Public the COW 10 the biggest fool on earth. and
When Thomas Jefferson Jones sold tho Kilo
Times he had been editing and publishing It and
working the old Washington hand press for about
years. and he had made it one OF the most slow
going respectable. desiccated weekly in Mid
die Iowa. one OF the kind that. If he was sick some
nobody would notice the difference; and Kno had got
used to chat kind Of paper and liked it.
But Davis was q different sort Of man. He saw
he put it in. On the paper TOR which Davis had been
ink headlines. and scandal and crime on the nrst
got out had a "Wave Of Crime" headline across the
top Of tho first page in red. with subheads Of "Ko
Police Rankly 1nenoient," AMI THE Criminal Still
At Large" That WAS tho best he could do with tho
news 1t hand. which was that . chicken had been
stolen from Doc Weavers hen COOP but he made up
the in doublespaced lines. telling that just
the Times was going to press It was learned that
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 publish1ng tho Times more
than . month and q half before he saw that # was
going to strain him to keep the speed he had set
for himself
The minute Davis stopped on tho train when he
eane 10 Ko he set his Old Billings. and gave
him HE proper news value There Old Billings,
punched up an egg case against tho side Of the
depot, right in the heat Of tho sun. with his slip
pod down onto the platform and his head lol1ng
bile horn. with srunt on tho full blast and trem
olo on tho intake. and his face and nose red
the side Of the Kilo Livery. Feed and Sale Stable.
Nobody can deny that Old Billings looked drunk.
n Mrs.. farley had wanted to make q waxwork figure
and had made with . palpitator inside Of It to
make tho chest riso and fall and tooter to snore.
and had called It sleeping on His -Ntoxication"
she couldn't have done better than to copy Old Bill.
lings just he looked when Davis stepped from the
train Old Billings . perfect imitation Of him.
self ~ he would have looked II he had been dead
drunk only he wasn't drunk. and never had been in
bis NE He q teetotal, hard-she1l. blue-rtbbon.
Iowa prohibitionkt I don't wonder it rilsd Davis.
News values were ono Of tho things Davis was
especially strong on A man who 10 . model jour-
naist with gallons Of red ink and 6ourteen assorted
fonts Of wooden scarehead type has to b strong