The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-04

per, you remember, an down thar picked up the County Record, that had word for word the same in it that mine did. Even the same old medicine ads. were the same and in the same posi- ton. I belt 'em side by side an com pared lem line fer line. At fust 1 lowed the editor in Alabama was steal in yore thunder an started to write to you to institute suit but the two pa% pers had the same date, an so I let the matter drop" ~
 YYou can't help that if you use pat ent.'' HiIlhouse said. "Now and then . subscriber gets on to it an comes ia to ask about it. but we get out of it some way"
 Seems to me I heard you say you offered the Clarion for sale awhile back, offered to trade it fer land or house an lot somefS.'' Abner had neV- CT spoken so careless1y. He went to the stove again, this time returning without his exhausted quid-
 sssYe, I ran a little notice at the head of the editorial page" Hillhouse re- moved the shade from his eyes and wiped his spectacles on a piece of pa7s per. "But nobody took the trouble to write me or come in to ask my terms At that time had a notion that I'd like to settle down on land of nay own. A man of my age doesn't want to ad- nit that he Is getting too old to do paper full justice these rapid times, but the fact is that I am not the edi- tor once was by long shot
 Couldn't you fix it so you could have both the inside an out of that patent proeessT' If Abner was testing no hint of it occurred to Hillhouse. fsIt looks like it wouldn't cost 8 powerful lot more to git the whole business struck off at once. You see, you buy the sheets anyway am pay freight am drayage on lem. In that case you wouldn't have to pay fer typesettin' here at all, an that must be quite an item.'' >
 You don't understand, Alb. You've never run a paper or you wouldn't ask such question. That would never do. You see, we simply must have space left to fill with local matter. Our ceun- try contributors must be heard from. Some of them write mighty bright stuff. Besides, folks are dying and being born and want it recorded. Men are running for office and are willing te pay something toward a papeIss sup port. The young folks here in town want an organ for all their doings. Oh. no. we must give at least half the pa- per to original matter from our own town
 'eThen you need bright young man to take the load off your shoulders. Thar is Howard Tinsley, though I hear he's off fer Texas, an I reckon you couldn't git him.''
 Hiuhouse frowned as he replaced his glasses and began to adjust the shade over his eyes. ''I couldn't afford to pay him as much as he thinks he ought to have. and there was another big trouble. I had to cut out nearly half of what he wrote, an he was always mad about 1t. His hot temper will get him down some day. I'm too old newspaper man for a young strip like that to argue with. He has his notions and have mine and they are wide apart.''
 ssIt seems to ne"-Abner took a piece of a tobacco plug from his pocket and began to cut eff corner with the blade of his pocket knife-''it seems to me that the only sensible thing fer you to Ae, then, is to sell out an quit. Thar's just you an yore' wife to make a Twin Ger. an surely you could do better than 70 stick here till you are both under ground
 HiIlhouse sighed freely. "Fve never wanted to get loose, Alb, as bad in all my fife as do now, but can't man age it I may as well tell the truth and be done with it. I reckon all married men more or less have their domestic pr6blemss but my wife is an odd hns