The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-06-18

leaving behind me my cap and 25
cents for three days wages. AL
though / succeeded in recovering
my cap few days la6er, my wages
are still coming. / worked no more
for Editor Jones of the Journal.
He told my father that l was a
blood thirsty william and had no
sense of feeling for the misfortunes
of others. and destroyed more type
than legion of devils. He closed
up his printing plant and ! found a
position on the Times at one dollar
per week, which. at that time. [
thought very large sum of money
for boy of my age.
The editor of the Times. Mr.. Van
Liew. was also a preacher, and made
many trips about the county and
state lecturing on temperance and the
evils of the drinking habit. He was
something like SIX feet and half
tall, weighed about one hundred
and forty pounds. and when walk
ing threw his shoulders back 80 far
that one was always under the inn
preston that he was about to fall
over backwards. We set all the type
In the Times building, made up the
forms, locked them ready for the
press. and then it was the duty of
We devil to take them on a two
wheeled cart to the Herald Office,
where the Times was run off the
press. There were many occasions
that / arrived at the Herald with a
large amount of pied type in the
bottom of the cart, but the editor
never raved about it and always
said that accidents were bound to
happen or the world would stand
still from dumb surprise" We
were constantly teaching new COM
positors, and it was only matter of
a few months before | was the old
est employee on the Times. was
now doing job work as well as
soliciting want ads and making
collections. The Times carried no
liquor ads of any description owing
to the prejudice of Preacher Van
Liew," as we called the editor,
against the liquor traffic.
An Editor Horrified
The Fourth of July. 1899, rolled
around and editor Van Liew was
called away to distant village to
speak TO an admirlng populace, and
l was left in charge IF the Times.
Being always lover of practical
jokes, l decided to put one over"
on the editor. so l hled myself to
the saloons, and before night [ had
secured four quarter page adver-
tisements setting forth the delights
of various kinds of wines and liquors,
each of which l agreed to run in
one issue of the Times at IS per ad.
The paper was already on the press
when the editor returned. He had
not seen one of them yet, and |
handed him 800 and told him / had
secured four good advertisements
during his absence, and he immedi-
ately raised my wages to three dol
lars per week. We had just con-
cluded our agreement when we re-
ceived a telephone call from the
Herald that our paper was all print
ed and ready for us. generally
took the mailing list with me and
mailed the papers direct from the
Herald Office, which did not require
a great amount of labor as we only
had about three hundred subscribers.
1 remember very distinctly that ]
was busily engaged at folding and
wrapping papers. when the front
door was thrown violently open.
and in rushed editor Van Liew.
Was he angryP Oh no! he had
ceased to be angry. he was mad,
and mad clear through. / noticed
that he carried copy of the Times,
saloon ads exposed, in one hand.
ard a job press linking roller in the
other. 1t suddenly entered my mind
that if l expected to continue in
life as printer. it was time to move
and move quickly; SO | plunged
through the door just as he caught
sight of me and sent the linking
roller flying in my direction. His
aim was poor and / gained the street
safely. / went home and waited
until late the following afternoon,
before / decided to beard the lion
in his den" and then forthwith start
ed for the Times office. Not caring
to take any chances, l took the
opposite side of the street and paus-
ed just across the way to see if the
editor was in his sanctum. He was
there alright. that is until he caught
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