| Show WAY OUT our OF DATE 11 moses P handy lie la a agoan addicted largely to whiskers and somewhat to literature the latter or revenue be la is or of a and anything that he be does bor already know he Is wailing to let iet the he flygt comer tell him such lucu orations brat ions as his hia brain and ears care are chub ble to arrange tie he peddles weekly tu to the now new york mail and express and ibe chicago limes herald and per laps to other hyphenated journals which areas are aa yet not honored with a place kinoe on the NEWS exchange list we do not attach much influence to his die works work for what bas baa been aea seen of it is quite undeserving but as a sample 01 ol bis invention and his 00 literary style we quote the following from his hie latest or ee t sy tsy the sedalia to is a newspaper which really exists although many people doubt it j just net as many used to 10 doubt whether there was really any arich place as oshkosh or kalamazoo sedalia is a flourishing town in missouri and the azoo Is a good paper published there by colonel goodwin goodwine Goo dwina a unique type of sou son h westerner weste A few yearn ago at a dinner of the american Amea ican newspaper publishers association in new york col goodwin followed charles A dana in the speechmaking ma kitie he said eaid 1 11 I am mighty glad to meet mr dana and to hear bear him talk I 1 admire him and his big paper very much but have always had a grudge against them both one day the sun had an editorial on plural alvea 1 which seemed to me to be a pretty good thing so being short of estorial edi edt orial matter that day I 1 just it and slapped it into the during the next few da days o I 1 had to barricade my office 0 and keep my revolver out ot of the drawer there was a constant procession of indignant men who called me to account f for maklan ing personal reflection on them hem I 1 had to come out the next week and explain that the article was the sun bun and was only aimed at mormons cormons Mor mons that taught me a lesson now I 1 always alway credit everything I 1 take from other papers especially what is M likely to hurt hart feelings fee linga now of course there to is not a jorj nf truth troth in the wb while ile story atory but there appeared to be about three inches of space pace to be oiled in the letter he to la hired to write and the foregoing wa wai i clumsily arranged for the occasion on exactly that game principle have hare hundreds of articles concerning the me cormons mormons been written in days day gone ly by there was a time when the deception was unnoticed it if not commended nowadays it masquerades for a very tory poor klind kind of wit and excites only pity or for an intellect so 90 non pro gres sive as not to know it |
