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Show 1 . m I '! How Editors Get Rich H I That most genial of Richmond souls, i Ex-Mayor Thomas Grltlln, has been H ' puzzled these many years as to how It Hi Is that editors reach such enormous I i heights llnanclally In such a short HJ ' space of time as is usual with them. H I) I As his mind's eve lan back over the H it history of newspapcrdom in Cache H ' i with Its multitudinous milllonarlcs, I' and he has contemplated ttic present H j prospect of another half-docn money Hj I ' " trusts being turned out by the local H' ; publications ere long, his wonder had H ' Increased to such extent that ho con- Bl '' templatcd writing for Information. fljj i As he sat sharpening his pencil with Hi which he proposed to write his In- Hj quiry, a copy of a Chicago paper was H handed, and lo! thcic before his eyes H was the answer lo the question. Mr. V J Orlllln clipped It, and with the as- H : sertlon that he fancies there is more H trutli than pootiy in the explanation, B sent the clipping to Tin; ItKi'Uiii.iOAN. H ' Here is the secret of the editor's Hj j, llnancial success: B I', "A child Is born In tiio neighbor- H J hood; the attending physician gets $10; B J . tlic editor gives the loud-lunged HH I youngster and the "happy parents" a H I send-off and guts to. When It is christened, the minister Kets tlO. And the editor Kets $00. It grows up and marries. Tho editor publishes another long-winded, llowery article, and tells a dozen lies about the "beautiful and accomplished bride," the minister gets 10 and a piece of of cake, and the editor gets $000. In the course of time It dies and the doctor ets fiom $2.1 to MOO, the minister Kets perhaps, another $15, The undei taker gets from $."0 to $100; the editor publishes a notice of the death and an obituary two columns lonK, lodge and society resolutions, a lot of poetry, and a free card of thanks, and Ret' $0000.' No wonder so many editors get rich.' |
