Show I TRIALS OF COUNTRY JOURNALISM An exchange of the Fourth Estate relates an interview with a publisher in which the latter tells how he tried to change a prosperous little weekly paper I in North Dakota into a daily He said Our ambitious souls aspired to some thins better something more metropolitan metropol-itan than a newspaper published once a week We must have a daily Of course the enterprising merchants patted me on the back and said G In And I went In While the novelty lasted the advertisements adver-tisements flowed In in a way to delight the heart of the crankiest country editor that ever sawed wood But while novelty nov-elty in this business is a thing of beauty i is not a joy forever by a darn sight Tho novelty wore off Along in the early summer one day the wife of the leading druggist went over into Pemblna county on a visit Now her husband was one of our few good everydayintheweek advertisers Any thing he wanted in this hop went But his wifes departure escaped the attention of the entire editorial and business busi-ness force and it went unchronicled Perhaps Per-haps we should have remained Ignorant even unto this day had not the wife of a neighbor gone to Grand Forks on a little visit also a few days later and a personal appeared to that effect next morning When I came down to the office toward ofe I ward noon that day I met our liberal advertising ad-vertising patron the druggist just coinIng coin-Ing out and looking as sour as a pot of old paste I greeted him of course with the obsequious friendliness our circumstances circum-stances demanded but was repulsed with a volley of GermanAmerican expletives that staggered me Then Ie recited the story of his wrongs in a way that made I my hair curl and when he told me he had ordered his ad out and stopped his i saucr my blood ceased to circulate So i did the daily Post Bugle |