Show alte country editor proposes calista bellamy my happiness is in your hands F mortimer clugston who uttered those words was the editor and proprietor of tho Dod leville yelper ha had his suit with an that had broken a collar button and bourly loosened a front tooth and as he stood awaiting the young ladys answer he could distinctly fel the growing on the nate 38 due in one month which he owed to the accommodating gentleman ia chicago who kindly edited tho outside of his paper for him gathering courage from her silence he broke out again calista your manner leads me to hope may I 1 promise myself that you will fill the chasm in my life that or yawns for you A bright future may be yours calista with you by my side as an assistant in an editorial career as a proof readar as a helper in folding papers thursday afternoon making up mails doieg up dinglo wrappers and looking after the ae counts of delinquent subscribers I 1 could mako greater in the land than it is now mr clugston said miss bellamy may I 1 ask you what the circulation of tha yelper is about a thou saml miss calista 1 I am not the press agent of a circus and menagerie mr clugston replied tho young lady 1 am not getting up a newspaper directory nor trying to make a contract with yon for advertising a patent clothes wringer you can afford to tall me the truth of course I 1 only mean 1000 in round numbers my actual circulation is but it is growing every day miss calista I 1 work off throe quires more than the jasper herald of american liberty doen and he claims agoo in less than a year you and I 1 could mako even the circulation of doo pinhook jigger look mighty sick excuse the question mr clugston Clu gaton but have you a paying advertising patronage advertising there been an issue of tho yelper for three years that has had less than worth of pay locals for scotts emulsion of cod liver oil inserted next to pure reading matter on the editorial page I 1 have a trunk full of due bills from sewing machine companies organ manufacturers and proprietors of patent windmills to apply to the purchase of those articles when I 1 want to buy them and out in my coal shed I 1 have patent medicine enough paid for in advertising to kill a regiment of bengal tigers I 1 always travel on a railroad pass good anywhere between saluda and harbors Har kors comers I 1 never get less than seven complimentary tickets whenever a circus and menagerie comes to doodleville Dood leville and every wedding in the neighborhood brings me in a box of assorted scraps of cake I 1 tell you misa calista the yelper is humping itself along in more ways than advertising some of my editorials have beon copied into the brimfield tomahawk and eureka thunderbolt and pronounced the ablest articles on cinch bugs in cum and tho moral influence of woman in politics thai have been printed in any of the papers for miles around and r have been prominently mentioned as a candidate for tha position of delegate to tha district lodge of good tem clars t am not insensible to the distinction you offer to confer upon me mr clugston Clu gaton said the young lady softly 1 I will be your wife on condition that it shall not be a part of my duty to wash the office towel wash the office towel calista exclaimed mortimer clugston as his hair rose straight up on end in a paroxysm of amazement we never wash it so help me benjamin franklin when it in use for breaking kindling or propping a window it always stands behind the door oh calista are you mine at last |