Show a = 1 THE ARIZONA KICKER 4 Timely Explanation Paying Invest mcnt A Base Slander The last issue of The Arizona Kicker con tined the following I EXPLAXATOUY The absence of our so siety column for the last three issues seems t call for an explanation The trouble was jealousy among the bonton If we happened t make a five line announcement that Mrs C3L Dash expected her brotherin law direct from tho California penitentiary on a certain date and only a four line item to the effect that r Judge De Solo imported her bustle direct from Zanzibar there was I ill feeling which stirred up the entire community We Boo L While tho towns eboutua have been bragging of their progress we bare kept quiet and got in our work without kicking kick-ing up any cloud of dust Brag i all right in its way but we dont propose to cOle out with a double leaded scare head article every time 1 citizen hangs a new front gate Booms are good enough In their way bu there must be merit behind them IT PAS Several months ago we estab Lshed a grocer and feed store la connection with The Kicker The New York World Herald end other effete dailies of tho metropolis metrop-olis predicted I dismal failure but tho result shows that they were mistaken Wo figured that this other business would b just what was needed to distract our mind from the harassing thoughts of editorially running this country and that vo would b all the better and brighter for being occasionally interrupted in our htf > rar labois The result ha justified our predictions and more Ve were never in a good metal condition ns non while our sales have kept increasing week by week until we have been compelled to hire I clerk to assist u The editorial entitled Advico to the President was written with moro than a dozen interruptions inter-ruptions to measure corn draw molasses and sell clothes pins and yet we will put it against anything which ever originated from the pen of the stuck up aud exclusive New York editors OUR JEALOUS CONTEMPORARY The dys peptic old excrescence who claims to edit the milk and mush publication down at tho corner cor-ner of Cattish alley is jealous of our adv er tising patronage In a labored article this week in his poorly print olti apology h says that wo practice bulldozing to bring averting a-verting What I han 1 The Kicker practice prac-tice bulldozing 1 Tho lea u laughable and if ho was worth minding wo should walk down to his shanty and choko the assertion I down his brazen throat There used to bo several firms here which didut believe in advertising vAo couldnt make em believe in it until wo went at it and found out that they were composed of gentlemen gentle-men who had skipped comp for barn I burning horse stealing bigamy embezzlement embezzle-ment etc Then we wrestled with em and they came to sea that tho life of trade was ill using printers ink Wo simply convinced I not bulldozed The efforts of our knock kneed contemporary to smirch the fair fame of The Kicker will simply call forth smile of pityDetroit Free Press |