Show two affectionate rivals thero were several men clustered around the stove in the back room of a Gul galveston veston saloon and somehow arother or alie subject of newspapers papers came up for discussion one roan man said that editors w were ere more jealous of each other than any other class that hey they never had a good word for each other etc A long youth with a solemn look spoke up an and heaving leaving a sigh said he had had lind some sonic ence with editors and he lie found them the reverse of jealous of each other that a texas editor was always willing to deny himself comforts for t the to benefit of a brother editor where did that happen it bapp happened ened in a western texas town where I lived sighed the young t man mail I had dib dashed ed off a little poem of f ten or fifteen stanzas about beautiful spring there were two rival papers in in the place the jingle buyle aw and tile trombone I had heard that the editors were deadly enemies and SO sighed ed to shed cadi each others gore and I was afraid that if I let the trombone Tron bone publish publish my poem first there aou would be a deadly encounter I ri finally nal re resolved alved to havo it appear simultaneously lita in both papers when I called on the editor of the trombone he said the editor of the bugle had a large fl family imily and that he would prefer to have it appear r in the bugle as leison personally ally lie aved loved the editor of the bugle I went then to the bugle man and he lie said the editor of the trombone was ilia his warmest personal friend ruid that ho he would be glad if I would let him have the poem ns it would be putting bread in his and clothes kinf onis on his back sa S owing to the love those two editors editor had lor for each other get my poem into cither either of their papers and it been published yet I never aw caw c men so anxious anxious to u help elp each other out of distress 81 and once dorethe more the long haired poet sighed like a bellows there was a pause and the old man mau with a bitten latten nose drawled out yer never tried them same editors with a cash cadi advertisement did yer the poet answered in the negative whereat the audic audience nce significantly nodded their heads beads antwind and winked at each other |