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Show the paper. It ia very probable that they are f dlly as important as others whose names frequently adorn the local columns and still the editor can not be blamed. Small papers with small patronage can not afford to employ large staffs at large salaries. It is the peoples duty to assist the home paper by dropping news items in the box or telling the editor who is sick, married, dead or come to town. Editors, as well as common mortals, have their trials in life as is seen in the following blank verse composed by a brother in misfortune: In running a paper, you've noticed, no-ticed, no doubt, how some weeks it humps you to get the thing out. You hustle for copy and rack yonr poor brain, fresh, morsels of news for your columns to gain; but it's all . to no purpose, the" news isn't there, no matter, how wildly you rustle and swear. So you trump up v some stuff just to plug up the space, tell how bicycle riding is death to the race, how the dads of the city aren't on to their jobs, and how Wilkinson's heifer got chocked with a cob. Then you clip till the blamed thing won't hold any more, and the very next mail brings you copy galore. Ex. NAMES IN NEWSPAPERS. Often the country editor hears complaints from people whose names are seldom mentioned in |