The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-03-02
Great Men Have Known


such hell of difference even if w
didn't have it, do your
| have often wondered what Hub
would do if some bright and snappy
new city or managing editor shoulc
make the mistake of firing him.
suppose it will happen some day
can't conceive of the old mans quit
ing-but what joke it will be on
the new editor. You see they will be
thinking only of the items that the
old man doesn't turn in, and not oi
the hundreds of items that come td
the paper just because the old mar
is there.
Why if Mrs. Jones baby is born
with a full fledged beard, she calls
up the paper at once:
| is this Mr.. Hubbell?"
NO, | don't want the city editor
| want Mr. Hubbell."
Yes, | suppose you can take items
| but I'm not seeking noteriety. | want
Mr. Hubbell.
Yes, it is too a matter for the
| newspaper, but | won't tell it to any
body but Mr.. Hubbell.'
Now tell me what the new editor
| would do that morning when he had
fired the Squire. I'll tell you, for you'd
never guess, he'd do some mighty tall
lying about Mr.. Hubbell taking a
much needed vacation and then he'd
hunt up the old man and rehire MIN
that's what he would do.
1t would be just the same if it was
the Smiths golden wedding, or the
Charles double death. Anybody that
ever even saw picture of a picnic
gathering which Hubbell once attend
ed knows him. They remember him.
They love him. If the editorial writ
er does something brilliant they tell
their friends:
Il know the author of that editor
ial-that's Mr.. Hubbell.'
They credit him with the good car
toons. They believe he wrote every
humorous item ever published in the
paper. In fact they give him credit
for everything good in the paper and
blame the publisher for everything
they don't like. 1t doesn't hurt Hub
any more for them to cuss his boss
than it does for thsm-to- nraisa MINI.
Nevertheless he himself likes the
"old man" He may tell you he don't
but l know.
'.Hubbell is skittish," you'd think,
around
streets some days. Why once ] caught
him buying ice-cream for six young
girls. l was shocked and ! suppose
| showed it. Later | learned that it
was his birthday. These girls were
school friends of his daughter. They
had hunted up the old man TO wish
him happy returns. Say? Are school
girls hunting you up to wish you Il
happy birthday since you turned
fifty. Hey? | guess the heart has 20
stay pretty young to look good TO a
| bunch of school girls.
| Hubbell used to write obituaries
They We're all much alike. Once | CON
planned about it--I who shouldn't hav
and he SAID:
| Now look here Dan, this is abou
the only chance most of these Fellows
ever have to have anything good sait
about them 1t makes their folks al
feel good and it don't do anybod.
any harm"
Yes, but what can you say whel
somebody truely great dies, if yo'
praise these common people too much
I'VE don't need to worry much abo
that. 1t is never any trouble to fin,
things to say about the truely great
and the truely great wouldn't mis-
it if We forgot to say anything"
Now that's truth. Hubbell neve
expected anybody to say anythin
good of him in print, unless, ne die
first. l have just made up my min
I'd fool him. Id just like to hay
him know while he is still alive, tE
he is SO nearly great, that l @
absolutely at no loss to find th1s
to say OF him. In fact l could fl
page or two about Hub" and Jay
:. do it yet, too, just to get evetior
some of the things he has dong 10
ME at various times.
q Hubbell is great. Things nevfurn-
a ed just right for him to showf con-
clusively but | know it. He as al
= ways earned a good salary. Ife ever
saved anything | never he'd Of 1t,
:, but, how could he. You sdhe mad
i two children who grew tohaturlty.
1t took money TO clothe II educate
them, and it took money III them
:, out when they were mFed. NOW
the original two have Ieased tat
IA guess) to eight or ten'd the TACT
;, that they call him grypa instead
y, of papa doesn't lessen ! oDilgauon.
$. The Squire had thefost sensible
70 code for life that | eYKheW. Often
has he lectured me:
u Now see here dofyou loan the
he fellows anything. Yofeu all OF your
d. money for your fanf Ihen would
I'd follow long desefon on how 10
make both ends mI oh sie Week.